The field of health professions education research draws inspiration from many disciplines, creating a dynamic socio-cultural context that is replete with contests over research rigour and quality. These knowledge politics are never definitively resolved. Thus, an important question that any graduate program established within the field has to…

The purpose of the study was to examine the required core curriculum and mission statements from the top 50 graduate schools of five different professional healthcare programs [occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT), nursing, speech-language pathology, and audiology programs]. The research questions were: 1) Do healthcare program…

Education for healthcare professionals, including radiography, is focused on cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning. The aim of this article is to present and argue for the consideration of the HECAF model, which is designed to improve the teaching and learning of Ethics and Human Rights in the radiography undergraduate programme. This…