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    Learning in the clinical skills and simulation centre University of Ghana : medical students’ experiences of teaching sessions : an exploratory study
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03) Muniru, Ayishetu; Archer, Elize; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Centre for Health Professions Education.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Many Clinical Skills and Simulation Centres have been established in medical institutions around the world. In Ghana, the Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre, University of Ghana Medical School is a facility for simulation based medical training. The Centre provides a realistic patient experience, which is artificially created to mimic substantial experience of the real world in a fully participatory and interactive situation. The desire to ensure patient safety and the quality of patient care delivery has become necessary and it is for this reason that simulation has a huge role to play. This research explores medical students’ experiences of teaching and learning sessions in the Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre, University of Ghana Medical School with the aim to optimise teaching and learning of clinical skills. Qualitative data was collected from medical students through focus group discussions. The data were analysed using thematic networks, which is an analytical tool for qualitative research. Several basic themes were identified from the interview transcripts, which were categorised into five broad organizing themes being; positive experiences, negative experiences, challenges, motivation and recommendations. Out of these organising themes, emerged the global theme, which was medical students’ experiences of teaching sessions at the Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre. The thematic analysis identified the process of skills acquisition as a mainly positive experience expressed by the medical students amidst the negative experience of some of the students and a challenge with regards to the distance of the Centre from the main campus. Students were however, motivated by their need to practise and suggested some useful recommendations to improve upon their teaching and learning sessions at the Centre.