"Making a difference" - Medical students' opportunities for transformational change in health care and learning through quality improvement projects

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bergh, Anne Marie ^a   Bac, Martin ^a   Hugo, Jannie ^a   Sandars, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

District health rotation; Medical education; Quality improvement; Self authorship; Transformative learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROCEDURES; SOUTH AFRICA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84979713840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0694-1     Document Type: Article

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