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Developing a clinical teaching quality questionnaire for use in a university osteopathic pre-registration teaching program

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Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment

BMC Med Educ. 2015 Apr 8;15:70.

Authors:

Brett Vaughan

Abstract.



Background: Clinical education is an important component of many health professional training programs. There is a range of questionnaires to assess the quality of the clinical educator however none are in student-led clinic environments. The present study developed a questionnaire to assess the quality of the clinical educators in the osteopathy program at Victoria University.

Methods: A systematic search of the literature was used to identify questionnaires that evaluated the quality of clinical teaching. Eighty-three items were extracted and reviewed for their appropriateness to include in a questionnaire by students, clinical educators and academics. A fifty-six item questionnaire was then trialled with osteopathy students. A variety of statistics were used to determine the number of factors to extract. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to investigate the factor structure.

Results: The number of factors to extract was calculated to be between 3 and 6. Review of the factor structures suggested the most appropriate fit was four and five factors. The EFA of the four-factor solution collapsed into three factors. The five-factor solution demonstrated the most stable structure. Internal consistency of the five-factor solution was greater than 0.70.

Conclusions: The five factors were labelled Learning Environment (Factor 1), Reflective Practice (Factor 2), Feedback (Factor 3) and Patient Management (Factor 4) and Modelling (Factor 5). Further research is now required to continue investigating the construct validity and reliability of the questionnaire.

Publication Date: 

2015 Apr

OEID: 

2569

Vaughan, B. (2015) 'Developing a clinical teaching quality questionnaire for use in a university osteopathic pre-registration teaching program ', BMC Med Educ. 2015 Apr 8;15:70.

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