Health care education and competence (HealthEduCom)
Research group information
Unit and faculty
Contact information
Research group leader
- Professor
Researchers
Research group description
The research group is researching learning environments and mentoring to enhance healthcare students’, educators’ and professionals' competence development, collaboration, well-being and psychological safety.
We develop and test effective education by utilising hybrid intelligence and digital technology to ensure a higher quality of patient care.
We further specialised in culturally and linguistically diverse minority groups’ research and innovation.
Research materials include qualitative and quantitative data and psychometrically tested instruments (e.g. Mentor Competence Instrument, Mentor Cultural Competence Instrument, Digital Competence & Associated Factors to Digital Competence instruments, Social- and Health Care Educators' Competence). The groups use methods of theory development and testing, interventional studies, predictive modeling, systematic reviews with meta-analysis/meta-aggregation, qualitative study with content analysis, psychometrically validated instruments, & algorithmic and machine learning.
Research
Projects
Cultural competence in social and healthcare work environments
LearnHybrid - A hybrid training model to ensure the development of competence in health sciences
Competent workforce for the health care and social services sector
EBHC-CT - Evidence-Based-Healthcare and Computational thinking in Advanced Nursing Science Education
QualMent - Quality Mentorship for Developing Competent Nursing Students
ICU-CT - Computational thinking in ICU - A digital collaboration project
Digital and Collaborative Learning Competence of the Students and their Educators in Health Sciences
HARKKA - From training to working life in changing operating environments in the health sector
TerOpe - Professional Competence Development and Continues Education of Health Sciences Teacher
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