Year: 2024 | Month: February | Volume: 14 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 252-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20240233
A Study of Perception and Efficacy of Clinical Educators About Clinical Education During Clinical Posting (CP) of Physiotherapy Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
Dr. Shreya Trivedi
Assistant Professor, Krishna School of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation, Drs. Kiran and Pallavi Global University, Vadodara
ABSTRACT
Introduction: In Physiotherapy hands-on and clinical reasoning skill plays important role in quality of services they provide. Clinical postings (CP) are believed crucial in developing such skills under supervision of Clinical Educators. Still there is little information available about conducting and/or evaluating the efficacy of CP. Lacking in efficacy in clinical posting can directly affect the quality of learning in Physiotherapy. So, the need of study arises. Self-efficacy is defined as the self-perceived ability to perform a task. In the current study perception about the roles and responsibilities of a clinical educator and self-efficacy of clinical educators about providing clinical teaching during CP of physiotherapy students was evaluated.
Method: In this cross-sectional study, total 37 participants were included. Participants after providing their consent were asked to fill the Self-Efficacy of Clinical Teachers (SECT) tool. SECT is a self-administered questionaries which is a reliable and valid tool to evaluate efficacy of clinical educators.
Result: Out of total 37 participant 43% 50% and 38% participant found moderately confident for 'Customizing Teaching to Learning needs', 'Teaching Prowess' and 'Impact on Learner's Development’ domains of SECT tool. 43% of clinical educator perceive their role as ‘Only clinician’ and 45.94% participant expressed they received their job objectives which were only about patients’ treatment.
Conclusion: Clinical educators found moderate confidant in providing clinical learning. There were no any inabilities found in clinical educators to provide clinical learning. Still there is a scope of further research in this area.
Key words: Clinical Posting (CP), Clinical educators, Physiotherapy