Experiences and Motivations Regarding The Roles in the Medical Student's Association at an Undergraduate Medical School in Saudi Arabia: A Qualitative Study.

Objectives: This qualitative study aimed to explore student perspectives toward extracurricular activities and motivating and/or demotivating factors of students for involvement with medical student association (MSA) at Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Methods: Qualitative analysis of focus group interviews was employed. Inclusion criteria required participants to be College of Medicine students in years 1-5 of undergraduate study and have been a member of the MSA for at least a year or more.

Girls in scrubs: An ethnographic exploration of the clinical learning environment.

Background: Gender bias is an enduring issue in the medical profession despite women being more represented within medical schools and the health care workforce in numerous countries across the world. There have been frequent calls for further exploration of gender-based discriminations within medical education, owing to its lasting impact on student's professional development and career trajectories. This paper presents an ethnographic exploration of the experiences of female medical students and doctors in the clinical learning environment (CLE), aiming to disrupt the cycle of gender inequity in the clinical workplace.

Placement or displacement: An ethnographic study of space in the clinical learning environment.

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the spatial attributes in the hospital ward environment and their impact on medical students' learning and experience of the clinical workplace.

Materials And Methods: An ethnographic study was conducted in a Scottish teaching hospital, combining observations and interviews over a period of 10 months. Two teaching wards served as the field-sites where approximately 120 h of non-participant observations took place sequentially.

Medical students' experiences of a longitudinal integrated clerkship: a threshold concepts analysis.

Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LIC) are known to provide several pedagogical advantages including transformational educational experiences. The study explored the learning experience of undergraduate medical students who undertook a rural LIC in a Scottish primary care setting. This paper presents an analysis of the transformative role of LIC placements using the Threshold Concept (TC) theory.

Context and mechanisms of interprofessional learning during a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship.

Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LIC) are known to afford several educational advantages to healthcare students including superior team working skills. This paper explores the perceptions of undergraduate medical students who undertook a rural LIC in Scottish primary care setting, to develop an understanding of their interprofessional learning (IPL) during the LIC placement. A qualitative approach was used to explore the lived experience of five LIC alumni who participated in this longitudinal study.

Toward interprofessional learning and education: Mapping common outcomes for prequalifying healthcare professional programs in the United Kingdom.

Introduction: Interprofessional education (IPE) continues to be a key component in prequalifying health professional education, with calls for regulators to publish a joint statement regarding IPE outcomes. To date, the regulatory documents for healthcare education in the United Kingdom have not been examined for common learning outcomes; information that could be used to inform such a statement and to identify opportunities for interprofessional learning.

Methods: A mapping of the outcomes/standards required by five, UK, health profession regulatory bodies was undertaken.

New perspectives on health professions students' e-learning: Looking through the lens of the "visitor and resident" model.

Background: The growth of e-learning in health professional education reflects expansion of personal use of online resources. Understanding the user perspective in a fast-changing digital world is essential to maintain the currency of our approach.

Methods: Mixed methods were used to investigate a cohort of postgraduate, e-learning healthcare students' perspectives on their use of online resources for personal and/or professional roles, via questionnaire and student-constructed diagrams, capturing use of online resources (underpinned by White's model of "resident" and "visitor" online engagement).

Identification of a common language describing paediatric physiotherapy practice for children with additional support needs, to support communication with those outside the physiotherapy profession.

Unlabelled: Children with additional support needs (ASNs) often require physiotherapy intervention to help maximise their participation within the primary school setting. The aim of this research was to investigate paediatric physiotherapy practice in supporting primary school aged children with ASNs, in order to identify a language to describe this, which could be used to support communication with teachers, parents and others outside the profession.

Design: Using a qualitative research multiple methods design, 2 focus groups and 5 structured interviews were held to investigate physiotherapy practice for this group.

A prospective qualitative exploration of views about attending pulmonary rehabilitation.

Background And Purpose: Pulmonary rehabilitation has been found to be an effective strategy for managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, attendance at such programmes is not optimal, therefore, this study aimed to develop an in-depth understanding of views regarding attendance at pulmonary rehabilitation and experiences which may have shaped these views.

Methods: An inductive qualitative study was carried out within the framework of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

Employment and chronic non-cancer pain: insights into work retention and loss.

Objectives: To explore the work experiences of three individuals who have chronic non-cancer pain and to identify factors which may affect their ability to remain in employment.

Methods: Three cases were selected from a data set of six, to illustrate distinct employment history scenarios. All participants had a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.