Publications by authors named "Patricia McGee"
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- Competency-based education (CBE) is being adopted in health professions, and this report focuses on creating a set of competencies for physical therapists as part of revamping their Doctor of Physical Therapy curriculum.
- A multi-step survey process was used to refine these competencies and achieve consensus among stakeholders, with an agreement threshold set at 85% for each item.
- The final outcome included 57 agreed-upon competencies organized into 8 domains, aiming to provide a coherent framework to improve physical therapist education and overall health care.
The characteristic profile of Millennial Generation students, driving many educational reforms, can be challenged by research in a number of fields including cognition, learning style, neurology, and psychology. This evidence suggests that the current aggregate view of the Millennial student may be less than accurate. Statistics show that Millennial students are considerably diverse in backgrounds, personalities, and learning styles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReducing adolescent clients' anger in a residential substance abuse treatment facility.
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf
June 2005
Background: Sundown Ranch, a residential behavioral health care treatment facility for adolescents, tracked the progress and results of treatment by selecting performance measures from a psychosocial screening inventory. The temper scale was one of the two highest scales at admission and the highest scale at discharge. A clinical performance improvement (PI) project was conducted to assess improvements in clients' ability to manage anger after the incorporation of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) into treatment.
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