Effectiveness of short, personalised student assistantships: an evaluative study across eight London hospitals.
Chee Yeen FungLesa KearneyEmma HatfieldNiamh M MartinOmid HalseJames Jensen-MartinElizabeth HughesAmir H SamPublished in: BMJ open (2022)
Overall, the focused 3-week, personalised student assistantships led to significant improvement across all learning objectives related to preparedness for practice. The use of the pre-assistantship confidence rating questionnaire allowed students to identify and target areas of learning needs during their assistantship.