Search for dissertations about: "undergraduate curriculum"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words undergraduate curriculum.
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1. Developing Academic Literacies in Times of Change : Scaffolding Literacies Acquisition with the Curriculum and ICT in Rwandan Tertiary Education
Abstract : Inspired by the Bologna Process and other globalising influences from modern higher education, and driven by policy reform for national development after the ravages of the 1994 conflict and genocide, Rwanda’s tertiary education has embarked on a number of policy reform for national development after the ravages of the 1994 conflict and genocide, Rwanda’s tertiary education has embarked on a number of policy reforms that have ushered in expectations, requirements and demands that call for both reinvigorated and new academic literacies in undergraduate study since 2007. With its aim of producing a highly skilled human resource as a panacea for Rwanda’s social and economic development deficits, the tertiary education curriculum is more than never before focused on outcomes that are linked to further education and the labour market. READ MORE
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2. Medical students' learning of the consultation and the patient-doctor relationship
Abstract : Background: In medical education, learning about the consultation and the patient-doctor relationship is nowadays highly recommended. However, research from educational practice from students? perspective is needed to facilitate a better understanding of students? learning. The thesis is based on four studies. READ MORE
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3. Chronic pain : from the study of student attitudes and preferences to the in vitro investigation of a novel treatment strategy
Abstract : Chronic pain will affect one in five adults during their lifetime, and it exerts a heavy burden on society with major physiological, psychological, social, and economic impacts. The current chronic pain curriculum taught to medical students in most settings is fragmented, inconsistent and inadequate and a vast majority of general practitioners considered their undergraduate training in chronic pain incomplete. READ MORE
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4. The journey towards understanding : exploring the interplay between teaching and learning
Abstract : This thesis explores students’ journey towards understanding throughout a nineweek course in their second year of an undergraduate medical programme. Although the investigation was undertaken in the context of a medical curriculum, the overall aim, to investigate the development of students’ experiences of learning and understanding, relates to issues in higher education in general. READ MORE
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5. Developing Interprofessional Competence : Theoretical and Empirical Contributions
Abstract : Background: Different professions meet and work together in teams every day in health and social care. In order to idenUiy and deliver the best quality of care for the patient, the teamworkers need to be both professionally and interprofessionally competent. READ MORE