Nicole Bessette, Maurianne Reade, Lorrilee McGregor, Joahnna Berti, Bruce Naokwegijig, Marion Maar
Culturally Safe Practices in the Co-creation of Medical Education Curriculum with Indigenous Animators: Outcomes From an Indigenous Learning Circle
Journal of medical education and curricular development
2020 medical radiation practice board australia made several revisions professional capabilities address medical radiation practitioners including diagnostic radiographers required escalate urgent findings radiographic settings however confidence radiographers articulating descriptions radiographic findings varies despite requirement crosssectional study explores implementation eportfolio affects student selfperceived confidence identifying describing radiographic findings academic clinical setting qualtrics survey distributed secondyear radiography students used eportfolios survey comprised four questions using likertscale one openended question quantitative data analysed using wilcoxon signedrank test qualitative data thematically assessed overall 55 65 radiographic students 85 completed survey confidence strongly agree agree decreased 89 74 academic clinical environments identifying abnormalities 89 73 describing findings finding highlights challenges students face clinical environment wilcoxon signed rank test analysed statistically significant relation two environments p 005 however relationship identifying describing skills statistically significant p 005 following review qualitative data three recurring themes identified among responses eportfolios assist improving confidence identification description radiographic abnormalities particularly academic setting clinical environment presents unique challenges may limit student clinical performance however requires investigation