Important gaps were identified in the knowledge of graduating nursing, medical, & pharmacy trainees regarding vaccine indications/contraindications, adverse events & safety.
We would like to investigate this further by comparing the medication knowledge in registered nurses with the knowledge of graduating bachelor students in nursing, at closing term of the 3rd year.
A cluster randomized controlled trial done in the United Kingdom, found that an online module on EBM was just as effective as a face-to-face lecture based module in increasing knowledge of graduate doctors [ 14].
Meanwhile, surveys of employers have uncovered industry demand for changes to university programmes, identifying areas for improvement in the skills and knowledge of economics graduates.
Research on information seeking knowledge of dental graduates is scarce.
The second group of the study population was expert evaluators who have direct observational knowledge of the graduates' competency in the operating environment; (being from the same department at the same hospital) and supervise their professional performance.
The study included 63 experts who have direct observational knowledge of the graduates' competency in the operating environment; (being from the same department at the same hospital) and supervise their professional performance.
There have been concerns expressed about these recent reforms [ 27] in UK medical education and fears that moving to a PBL system may have a negative impact on the basic science knowledge of PBL graduates which may impact on the ability of PBL to pass science based postgraduate exams[ 28, 29].
A student who arrives with little specific knowledge of the graduate program or its faculty "is bound to make a bad impression," Faubion warns.
