Physiotherapy students' rating on lecturers' and supervisors' clinical education attributes.

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Author	Safo-Kantanka, Nana Kwame Quartey, Jonathan Kwakye, Samuel Koranteng
Copyright Year	2024
Abstract	Background:Clinical education is considered a vital aspect of education of health science students. Attributes of clinical educators play a crucial role in determining the outcome of clinical teaching and learning. A good clinical educator ensures that students get maximum benefits of the clinical learning experience.Objective:To determine the ratings of physiotherapy students on clinical education attributes of lecturers and clinical supervisors.Methods:The study was conducted with 81 clinical physiotherapy students from two universities in Ghana. Two copies of McGill clinical teachers’ evaluation (CTE) tool were used to obtain students’ ratings on their clinical supervisors’ and lecturers’ clinical education attributes. Independent t-test was used to compare the means of students’ level of study and ratings regarding the clinical education attributes of clinical supervisors and lecturers.Results:Students had a high rating on their clinical education attributes of supervisors and lecturers with a mean score of (121.22±18.12) and (122.11±16.71), respectively. Rating on clinical education attributes of supervisors (p=0.111) and lecturers (p=0.124) did not differ significantly between the different levels of study.Conclusion:Clinical physiotherapy students rated the clinical education attributes of their lecturers and supervisors high.
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Page Count	12
ISSN	10137025
Volume Number	44
PubMed Central reference number	PMC10949104
Issue Number	2
PubMed reference number	38510158
Journal	Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal [Hong Kong Physiother J]
e-ISSN	1876441X
DOI	10.1142/s1013702524500045
Language	English
Publisher	World Scientific Publishing Company
Publisher Date	2023-10-05
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an Open Access article published by World Scientific Publishing Company. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) License which permits use, distribution and reproduction, provided that the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association
Subject Keyword	Clinical education clinical educators clinical educators’ attributes clinical supervisors lecturers
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation