Development of real world learning opportunities in community exercise prescription for healthcare professional programmes - 'Physio Hub'.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the challenge of chronic lifestyle diseases, the shift in healthcare focus to primary care and recognised importance of a preventive approach to health, including exercise prescription, the embedding of related learning in healthcare professional programmes is critical.

Methods

In response to these contemporary demands, a complex curriculum development project was undertaken at University College Dublin, employing a four dimensional curriculum framework for the development of health professional curricula, that focused on (1) future orientation of healthcare practices (the why?), (2) defining capabilities of graduates (the what?), (3) teaching, learning and assessment (the how?) and (4) organisation/institution delivery (the where)? The process was informed

SUBMITTER: Cunningham C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7836499 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature