In 2021, South Africa introduced a new 6-month internship in family medicine and primary care. This study aimed to assess the new rotation at district health facilities in the Western Cape....
A descriptive survey of interns and supervisors, as phase-two of an exploratory sequential mixed methods study. Questionnaires were developed from a descriptive exploratory qualitative study. Data wer...
Questionnaires were completed by 72 interns (response rate 21%) and 36 supervisors (response rate 90%), across 10 training programmes. Interns felt more independent (97.2%), confident (90.3%) and resi...
The rotation met most expectations of the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Programmes need to improve exposure to community-orientated primary care, public health medicine, palliative and o...
Clinical internship is a focused and supervised practice where nursing students have opportunities to master clinical skills and better adapt to the real working environment, promoting the formation o...
To explore the facilitators and barriers of African postgraduate nursing students' adaptation to an internship....
Qualitative descriptive study....
A comprehensive university with three affiliated hospitals in southern China....
Twelve African postgraduate nursing students who finished a three-month internship in the two-year postgraduate programme....
Participants were recruited using purposive sampling. Semi-structured interviews were conducted between April and December 2021. Data were thematically analysed using the Colaizzi seven-step method....
Three facilitators and four barriers to their adaptation to the internship emerged in the study. Facilitators included the teacher-student interactions, harmonious working atmosphere and positive inne...
The present findings could contribute to the improvement of a more effective clinical training programme. Nursing colleges and teaching hospitals should make more efforts to enhance the current clinic...
For dental graduates, internships are a vital transitional phase that gives them the invaluable opportunity to close the gap between their academic studies and the reality of professional dentistry. R...
To achieve the research objective, this study adopted a qualitative approach. Using purposive and snowball sampling, the study recruited 23 dental interns from Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, who had c...
The data analysis revealed three major themes and four sub-themes regarding the experiences of dental interns. The core three themes were "activities", "autonomy" and "transitioning to a balanced life...
This study suggests that dental interns will benefit from the retention and strengthening of key internship activities such as research, community work and clinical rotations. Additionally, the experi...
To determine the core competencies of clinical internships for international postgraduate nursing students undertaking a two-year professional program in China....
Clinical internship is an important part of nursing education and is the cornerstone for the future training of nursing professionals. However, in terms of providing a basis for the training and asses...
Focus group interviews and a two-round Delphi method were conducted. The preliminary list of core competencies was determined based on a scoping review and focus group interviews. Subsequently, expert...
Twenty experts completed two rounds of Delphi expert consultation and reached consensus on five first-level indices and 13 s-level indices with 27 connotations. The RR values for the two rounds of con...
The core competencies identified in this research can provide a basis for further training international postgraduate nursing students undertaking a two-year professional program in China through inte...
Dental students have a clear concept of professionalism and the importance of role models. Our aim was to determine how dental students experience their first oral and maxillofacial surgery internship...
From June to August 2020, semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 22 dental students in their eighth and ninth semesters at the Medical Faculty of the University of Ulm. The interview...
The students' concept of dental professionalism was shaped by the elements of a good approach to patients, professional competence, and manual skills. This perception was not changed by the internship...
Supervising dentists may still underestimate the considerable impact of internships, and their awareness of this impact needs to be increased. Students' reactions to conflicts between reality and thei...
Medical internship is a key period for doctors' individual career planning and also a transition period for the broader labour market....
We aimed to understand the complex set of factors influencing the career intentions and decisions of junior doctors, post-internship in Kenya and Uganda....
We conducted semi-structured interviews with 54 junior medical officers and 14 consultants to understand doctors' internship experiences and subsequent employment experiences. We analysed the data usi...
Echoing the internship experience and career intentions framework, we found that clinical exposure during internship, work-life balance, aspects of workplace culture such as relationships with consult...
We have shown how internship experiences shape medical doctors' career intentions in Kenya and Uganda and highlighted the importance of job availability and context in influencing doctors' career choi...
The COVID-19 pandemic produced challenges and troubling issues in Saudi Arabia and worldwide. During the height of the pandemic, the psychological status of nursing students was complicated by challen...
Clinical internship is an indispensable stage for nursing students to graduate successfully and become qualified nurses. However, COVID-19, a novel coronavirus disease with strong human-to-human trans...
To describe the perceptions and experiences of undergraduate nursing students in e-internships during the COVID-19 pandemic....
A descriptive phenomenological design was adopted. Seventeen undergraduate nursing students in a major teaching hospital in Changsha, China, were recruited into the study. Data were collected through ...
Four themes were captured from the data analysis: perceived images of clinical nurses in e-internships, psychological experience, perceived benefits of e-internships, and perceived limitations of e-in...
Our findings suggest that e-internship is a suitable method for training and cultivating undergraduate nursing students during a crisis. To enhance the efficiency of e-internships, guidelines and stan...
The young generation of surgeons sets new requirements for educational and working conditions. This is frequently interpreted as a lack of motivation to perform; however, instead there is a claim for ...
Aim of this article is to present expectations of surgical residents regarding residency training under current influencing factors, such as a high workload, the new training regulations or expected c...
In addition to an extensive literature search, this article is based on published opinions and survey results as well as lectures and discussions at congresses held in the past year....
To ensure a modern high-quality education and to maintain enthusiasm for surgery, the need for adjustments and innovation must be recognized and long-requested modifictions to established structures m...
Strong performance in neurosurgical sub-internships is a vital component of a successful residency application and requires adequate familiarity with clinical knowledge and technical skills that may n...
Academy curriculum involved hands-on and discussion-based elements split into three workshops. Anonymous surveys were conducted immediately following the academy and upon completion of sub-internships...
Twelve medical students participated in the inaugural neurosurgery sub-internship academy. Nine responded to the immediate post-survey, which revealed the following ratings: the overall program was ra...
Student perceptions of the relevance and utility of the sub-internship academy were positive, and the program fostered enthusiasm for neurosurgery and provided opportunities for mentorship. The partic...
