Hoda Ahmari Tehran; Mojgan Mohammadimehr; Fatemeh Keshmiri
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Background: Planning and conducting successful scholarship of teaching and learning or educational scholarship in medical education is essential. The guidelines for faculty members can be significant.Objectives: This study aimed to develop a practical guide for teaching and learning scholarship activities.Methods: ...
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Background: Planning and conducting successful scholarship of teaching and learning or educational scholarship in medical education is essential. The guidelines for faculty members can be significant.Objectives: This study aimed to develop a practical guide for teaching and learning scholarship activities.Methods: The present study was a research synthesis conducted in six steps, including formulation of problem or question, literature search, data extraction and analysis, interpretation of results, and public presentation. The extracted publications were independently analyzed, and a consensus was reached on each paper’s stated definitions of the educational scholarship steps.Results: The results were classified into 12 steps, including recognizing an educational problem, reviewing the literature, analyzing the context, creating a goal-oriented team of stakeholders, determining objectives and planning the SoTL project, finding supportive resources, considering ethical issues, implementing the scholar activities and analyzing evidence, critical appraisal of the SoTL project, reflecting on the SoTL project, documenting the details of the SoTL project, and going public and disseminating the experiences.Conclusion: Scholars must be able to provide a clear, complete explanation of the innovativeness of their scholarly ideas and the need for this kind of content for their audiences. However, studying and reviewing relevant journals, reflecting on the issues or questions posed, and exchanging ideas with your colleagues are recommended for reviewing and refining scholarly and idea-generation questions.
Fatemeh Keshmiri
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Background: The necessity of responding to changes and promoting the quality of education has increased the necessity of applying new approaches to empowerment programs.Objectives: The present research aimed to determine the effects of mid-term empowerment programs using a blended approach in the form ...
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Background: The necessity of responding to changes and promoting the quality of education has increased the necessity of applying new approaches to empowerment programs.Objectives: The present research aimed to determine the effects of mid-term empowerment programs using a blended approach in the form of flipped classrooms (asynchronous, live meetings) before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic and a virtual (asynchronous-synchronous) approach during the COVID-19 epidemic on teachers’ learning and satisfaction concerning teacher roles in the medical science education system.Methods: This study was quasi-experimental, and its participants were faculty members of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, participating in the empowerment program. This program was implemented in four periods, including 20 training sessions concerning the roles of a teacher in educational systems in the areas of “professional commitment, lesson planning, teaching-learning methods, assessment and evaluation methods, production of educational products, effective communication, and classroom management”. The program evaluation was performed using the participants’ levels of learning and satisfaction by scenario-based questions and a questionnaire, respectively. The results of different blended education approaches were compared in two time periods, before and during the COVID-19 epidemic. Data were analyzed using descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (independent T-test) tests. P >0.05 was considered the significance level.Results: One hundred and eighteen faculty members participated in the study, of whom 56 were female (47.5%), and 62 were male (52.5%). The faculty members’ satisfaction scores with blended empowerment courses with the flipped classroom were reported as 4.34±0.16 and the virtual blended classroom as 3.26±0.59. A significant difference was observed between satisfaction scores in different periods (P=0.001). The participants’ learning scores in the programs held by the blended approach with the flipped classroom (82.16±32.20) were significantly higher than those held during the COVID-19 epidemic (virtual approach) (59.23±48.53).Conclusion: The satisfaction and learning of participants in the flipped classroom program and the virtual blended classroom were at favorable and average levels, respectively. This difference in learning and satisfaction from the perspective of faculty members was significant. Therefore, interactive approaches in different virtual education platforms and a blended approach in empowerment programs are recommended.
Fatemeh Keshmiri
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Background: Teaching is identified as a necessary role and responsibility for junior faculty members in their future careers.Objectives: The present study aimed to test the hypothesis that a student-as-teacher (SaT) program can effectively prepare the students for their future roles as teachers ...
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Background: Teaching is identified as a necessary role and responsibility for junior faculty members in their future careers.Objectives: The present study aimed to test the hypothesis that a student-as-teacher (SaT) program can effectively prepare the students for their future roles as teachers and educators.Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, the participants included 143 postgraduate students of 12 doctorate and master’s degree programs at Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, who were selected by census method . Nine learning objectives were classified in four competencydomains: (1) adult learning principles; (2) instructional design; (3) teaching and learning processes; and (4) learner’s assessment. The educational methods were based on an active learning approac.Results: The mean score of learners in the practical assessment was 12.5±3.6 out of 15, and their mean score in the modified essay test was 8.5±1.5 out of 10 after the educational intervention. The results showed that the scores of the learners’ attitude about cooperative learning were significantly different before (2.38±0.31) and after (4.15±0.65) the intervention (P=0.0001). Also, the scores of learners’ capabilities in teaching were significantly different before (2.5±0.61) and after (3.80±0.34) the intervention (P=0.0001). The learners considered their teaching capabilities to be at the level of “familiarity without mastery” and “implementation mastery” before and after the intervention, respectively (P=0.0001).Conclusion: It is recommended to develop and implement SaT programs to improve the teaching capabilities of students using innovative teaching methods and prepare them for their future roles as instructors and teachers.
Fatemeh Keshmiri
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Background: Interprofessional collaboration is defined as a key component of a successful team in healthcare system. Interprofessional collaboration facilitates healthcare team members to provide the effective and safe healthcare services.Objectives: This study aimed at investigating the relationship ...
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Background: Interprofessional collaboration is defined as a key component of a successful team in healthcare system. Interprofessional collaboration facilitates healthcare team members to provide the effective and safe healthcare services.Objectives: This study aimed at investigating the relationship between self-efficacy and attitudes toward interprofessional communication and collaboration in learners of different disciplines.Methods: This cross-sectional study carried out in Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in 2020. In the first phase, the psychometrics properties of the scales; attitudes toward healthcare teams and self-efficacy in interprofessional collaboration and communication were evaluated. In the second phase, the survey were conducted among 178 residents, medical interns, and nursing students.Results: The validity and reliability of the instruments were confirmed. According to exploratory factor analysis, the items of the self-efficacy in interprofessional collaboration and communication scale were classified into four areas; effective communication with the patient, patient involvement, interprofessional teamwork, and interprofessional interaction. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.74 and 0.95, and interclass correlation coefficient was 0.76 and 0.90 for attitudes toward healthcare teams and self-efficacy in interprofessional collaboration and communication scales, respectively. The mean scores of self-efficacies (2.10±0.41) and attitudes toward health care teams (2.17 ±0.43) were at a weak level, and a significant relationship was observed between them (P=0.001, r = 0.80).Conclusion: Regards the confirmation of validation of the tools, the validated instruments can be utilized for formative evaluation of learners in different fields in order to provide the necessary platform for the promotion of interprofessional collaboration behavior in clinical teams.
Fatemeh Keshmiri; Jamileh Salar
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Objectives The present study was conducted with the aim of psychometric evaluation of a tool measuring behavioral intention in relation to interprofessional shared decision-making based on the theory of planned behavior and its assessment among medical and nursing students. Methods This descriptive study ...
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Objectives The present study was conducted with the aim of psychometric evaluation of a tool measuring behavioral intention in relation to interprofessional shared decision-making based on the theory of planned behavior and its assessment among medical and nursing students. Methods This descriptive study was carried out in two stages. In the first stage, the psychometric properties of the interprofessional shared decision-making (IP-SDM) tool were evaluated based on experts’ opinions. In the second stage, the participants’ behavioral intention was evaluated using the mentioned questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of five domains of cognitive attitude (2 items), emotional attitude (2 items), subjective norms (3 items), perceived behavioral control (3 items), and intention to use interprofessional shared decision-making (3 items). Content validity of the questionnaire was evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively (using the content validity ratio (CVR) and content validity index (CVI)). Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and interclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. In the second stage, the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and Pearson’s correlation test in SPSS software. Results Qualitative and quantitative content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed based on experts’ opinions. The internal consistency of the tool, based on the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, was 0.92, and the tool’s repeatability was calculated at 0.84 using ICC. Participants in the study intended to participate in interprofessional shared decision-making. Conclusions The behavioral intention measurement tool in relation to interprofessional shared decision-making based on the theory of planned behavior has good validity and reliability in Iran. Regarding the participants’ behavioral intention to participate in shared decision-making, it is suggested that a suitable platform for shared decision-making and teamwork between health team members be provided in educational systems.
