Introducing integrated case-based learning to clinical nutrition training and evaluating students' learning performance.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Clinical nutrition training is an essential course for clinical nutrition and dietetics (CN&D) students. The training combines theoretical knowledge with practical skills. The goal is to prepare competent graduates for future practice. Case-based learning is an active learning method based on cases from the clinical setting. This study aimed to introduce an integrated case-based learning (ICBL) method to the clinical training of a cohort of CN&D students and to evaluate its impact on the students' knowledge of nutrition care process.

Methods

This action research project employed an ICBL-method of teaching in the clinical training of senior students in the CN&D course at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Ten integrated case-based learning sessions we

SUBMITTER: Abu Farha RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8348321 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature