Development of a brief learning environment measure for use in healthcare professions education: the Healthcare Education Micro Learning Environment Measure (HEMLEM).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The learning environment impacts many aspects of healthcare education, including student outcomes. Rather than being a single and fixed phenomenon, it is made up of multiple micro learning environments. The standard clinical learning environment measurement tools do not consider such diversity and may fail to adequately capture micro learning environments. Moreover, the existing tools are often long and may take a prohibitive amount of time to complete properly. This may have a negative impact on their usefulness in educational improvement strategies. In addition, there is no universal tool available which could be utilised across several healthcare student groups and placement settings.

Aim

To create an evidence-based measurement tool for assessing clinical micro

SUBMITTER: Isba R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7146917 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature