Due to the myriad of complex decisions that BCBA candidates must make, both in academic and clinical settings, the use of Equivalence Based Instruction (EBI) and Relational Frame Theory (RFT) in concept instruction may aid in the ability to make such decisions which require derived relational responding across arbitrary dimensions (Roessger et…

Teachers' school contexts play critical yet underappreciated roles in their development of instructional practice in individual classrooms. Sparked by insights from Akiko Hayashi's book "Teaching Expertise in Three Countries," this reflective piece explores the author's development of his craft across four distinctive educational…

Reflective practice is a complex concept to adequately describe, communicate about and, ultimately, teach. Unrelieved tensions about the concept persist within the health professions education (HPE) literature owing to reflection's diverse theoretical history. Tensions extend from the most basic, e.g., what is reflection and what are its contents,…

In recent years, teaching as a profession has seen a sharp decline in the number of individuals entering teacher education programs, and certified teachers are leaving the classroom at alarming rates. Although there are a myriad of reasons cited for this trend, we posit as others have, that one challenge to our profession has been the…

Allied health clinical placements take place within an increasingly overstretched health care system where demand for services often exceeds availability of resources. Within this environment, student placements are often perceived as an additional burden to an already overwhelmed workforce. This study explored whether the quality of patient care…

Widely accepted as a foundational course within health professions education, anatomy is often taken at the beginning of the health professional curriculum and students are expected to be prepared for the rigors of the course. Anatomy preparedness, evaluated in this study, has been defined as matriculating into a graduate or professional anatomy…

Uncertainty is a feature of healthcare practice. In recognition of this, multiple health profession governing bodies identify uncertainty tolerance as a healthcare graduate attribute and evaluate uncertainty tolerance within new graduate cohorts. While it is clear that uncertainty tolerance development for healthcare learners is valued, gaps…

The aim of this chapter is to provide the reader with a broad overview of clinical simulation using case examples to highlight the evolving multidomain teaching pedagogy in healthcare professional programs.

Online instructional videos have been presented as an efficient instructional method in workplace learning and vocational education and training (VET). Increasingly, public video-sharing sites like YouTube are used by firms, educators and learners to teach and learn about work practices, new work roles and skills. However, more knowledge is needed…

Teaching and learning are interconnected, evolving processes that extend beyond the transmission of knowledge to foster intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and personal growth. Effective teaching requires the integration of various pedagogical strategies designed to diverse learning needs, promoting creativity and deep understanding. The…

This discursive article explores the integration of digital storytelling into an occupational therapy gross anatomy course as a novel pedagogical approach to deepen students' understanding of the functional significance of hand anatomy. Digital storytelling utilizes technology to produce self-narrated meaningful stories and presentations that…

Social media may promote knowledge sharing but what users do with the new knowledge and how it may influence practice remains to be known. This exploratory study used a social constructivist lens to understand how health professions educators and researchers integrate knowledge from social media into their respective practices. We purposively…

Occupational therapy education standards for teaching occupation are inconsistently applied and there is a lack of evidence to inform teaching practice in Australia. This qualitative study explored what teaching methods and approaches Australian occupational therapy educators used in their classroom, and why those methods were used. The research…

An in-depth understanding of the anatomy discipline is essential for the work of healthcare professionals. In recent decades, the content and time of teaching anatomy have decreased in all health science degrees. The aim of this study was to look for alternatives for compensating the reduction of the teaching of anatomy by supplementing students…

"Educating in Ethics for the Professions: A Compendium of Research, Theory, Practice, and an Agenda for the Future" offers a state-of-the-art discussion on the part of applied ("professional") ethics educators who describe the teaching of ethics for their professions and who collectively represent a wide-ranging array of…