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 Sam

Published 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.

Keyphrases

high school
healthcare
randomized controlled trial
public health
primary care
systematic review
psychometric properties
placebo controlled
double blind