Medical students' and facilitators' experiences of an Early Professional Contact course: Active and motivated students, strained facilitators
BMC Medical EducationPublished 1 December 2008Open access
Bernhard von Below, Gunilla Hellquist, Stig Rödjer, Ronny Gunnarsson, Cecilia Björkelund, Mats Wahlqvist
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The students experienced the course as providing them with a valuable introduction to the physician's professional role in clinical practice, in contrast, course facilitators often experienced a heavy workload and lack of support, despite thorough preparatory education.
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In this project, a new Early Professional Contact course was analysed from both student and facilitator perspectives. The students experienced the course as providing them with a valuable introduction to the physician's professional role in clinical practice. In contrast, course facilitators often experienced a heavy workload and lack of support, despite thorough preparatory education. A possible conflict between the clinical facilitator's task as educator and member of the workplace is suggested. More research is needed on how doctors combine their professional tasks with work as facilitators.
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