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Very little has been done to define the process of clinical learning in Malawi and yet anecdotal observations reveal that it is more challenging than classroom teaching and learning. This set the impetus for this hermeneutic phenomenological study, the aim being to gain an understanding of the nature of the clinical learning experience for undergraduate students in Malawi and to examine their clinical experiences against some experiential learning models (Kolb 1984; Jarvis et al 1998). The study setting was Kamuzu College of Nursing (KCN) and the sample was selected purposively and consisted of 30 undergraduate students who were recruited through volunteering. Conversational interviews were conducted to obtain students’ accounts of their clinical learning experience and an eclectic framework guided the phenomenological analysis. The study raises issues which relate to nursing education and nursing practice in Malawi. From an experiential learning perspective, the study reveals that clinical learning for KCN students is largely non-reflective. The study primarily reveals that the clinical learning experience is enormously challenging and stressful due to structural problems prevalent in the clinical learning environment (CLE). In some clinical settings the CLE appears hostile and oppressive due to negative attitudes which some of the clinical staff display towards KCN students. Consequently, students’ accounts depict emotionally charged situations which confront them and this illustrates that clinical learning for KCN students is an experience suffused with emotions. In literature issues on emotions are commonly discussed under emotional labour (Hochschild 1983) and I used the concept as a basis for my pre-understandings and interpreted the students’ accounts of their clinical learning experience against such a conceptual framework. What resonated from their narratives was the depth of the emotion work they engage in. This enabled me to arrive at a new and unique conceptualisation of clinical learning redefined in terms of emotional labour within the perspective of nurse learning in Africa. The findings are a unique contribution to the literature on emotions and provide essential feedback which forms the basis for improving clinical learning in Malawi.

Abstract Background: Aphasia is a commonly treated language disorder; however there is discrepancy among professionals regarding classification and assessment practices (Code & Petheram, 2011; McNeil & Pratt, 2001). Current research focuses heavily on acute treatment; chronic aphasia is severely under-represented. A review of the literature revealed a wide array of standardized and non-standardized tests used to evaluate both acute and chronic aphasia cases. Overall, there appears to be variance in evaluation practices, especially among SLPs (Bland et al., 2013). Aims: The present study aims to quantify two variables that may account for this inconsistency in evaluation procedures: 1) years of clinical experience and 2) professional interest. Methods: SLPs with membership to either ASHA Special Interest Group 2 or the ABAI Speech-Pathology Interest Group were contacted to participate in a survey. They were presented with a demographic questionnaire and hypothetical vignettes detailing chronic aphasia cases. The data was collected through SurveyMonkey and exported to R for statistical analysis. Months of clinical experience were subsequently correlated to specific survey responses measuring the following variables: decision to reassess, decision of what clinical constructs to address, selection of assessments, and opinion regarding generalization of naming to functional requesting behavior. Results: Due to lack of participation, the professional interest variable was eliminated. A Spearman Rho test revealed statistical significance for 5 variables. The majority of participants supported reassessment, inclusion of functional assessments, and use of confrontational naming to target requesting. Further research is warranted on the subject, including possible development of a valid functional language assessment for chronic aphasia patients. Keywords: chronic aphasia, assessment, experience, professional interest, survey, functional behaviors

Athletic training education has evolved from a model with a strong experiential component and a weak educational curricular component to a standards based framework program. Throughout the development of Athletic Training Education Programs (ATEPs), starting in 1950's through today when the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) has tightened restrictions and standards for athletic training curriculum. Athletic training education is broken into two components. The first component includes a didactic education or classroom curriculum and the second component involves clinical experience, where hands on experience supplements classroom understanding and allows students to becomes competent with the concepts taught during classroom curriculum. In comparing allied health professions, entry-level athletic trainers perceive approximately 53% of their professional development comes from clinical experiences, while physical therapy clinical experience have been reported to be 23% - 30% of the professional development (Weidner & Henning, 2002). The purpose of the study was to examine if relationships exist between characteristics within ATEPs and athletic training students (ATSs) success on the Board of Certification (BOC) examination. Twenty-four graduates from six selected CAATE accredited NCAA Division I participating Institutions completed a 20 question survey regarding characteristics of clinical experiences within the ATEP as well as other demographic information that may identify relationships between those characteristics and success on the certification examination. BOC EXAMINATION SUCCESS AND CLINICAL EDUCATION Results of this study identified no significant relationships between characteristics within ATEPs, football experience, or student demographics and success on the BOC examination. The number of subjects was limited and, if a larger population were surveyed, results may differ. Although not statistically significant, GPA as a predictor of and first attempt success on the BOC examination approached a significant value. These findings show consistency with previous research. In conclusion, this study did not identify relationships that were significant but relationships that approached a level significance. No significant relationships were identified between ATEP characteristics, football experience, or student demographics and BOC examination success. Although fall football experience is not related to success on the BOC examination results show significant relationship between football experience and students' perception of observational role as well as hands on injury evaluation experience. Students who are placed within Division I football tend to hold roles strictly as observers versus those students who are placed within the high school football settings. Future research in the area of clinical experience and success on the BOC examination should continue. A larger sample size, from a variety of athletic conference's should be included in the survey population. / Ph. D.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar o uso de histórias no encontro clínico com crianças psicóticas. Entendemos que as histórias nos aproximam de experiências da natureza humana; na experiência de ouvir/ler uma história, é possível ao ouvinte/leitor reconhecer nela um sentido relativo à sua própria vida. Tal tema surgiu a partir da própria experiência clínica, numa Oficina Terapêutica de História. A Oficina Terapêutica era parte do dispositivo clínico GIRAMUNDO oficinas terapêuticas e inclusão, da Clínica Psicológica Ana Maria Poppovic da PUC/SP. Para alcançarmos o objetivo proposto, estudamos as características das histórias, relacionando-as ao tema da experiência e articulando-as, posteriormente, com os conceitos winnicottianos de transicionalidade e criatividade. A partir da teoria de Winnicott sobre o desenvolvimento emocional primitivo pensamos em como a transmissão e a tradição das histórias podem ser articuladas às especificidades da clínica da psicose infantil. A pesquisa é qualitativa, de abordagem psicanalítica. Levando em conta que a pesquisa qualitativa busca aperfeiçoar as formas que tornam possível compreender o mundo da experiência, tal estudo foi realizado por uma leitura das situações e cenas vividas no encontro clínico em Oficinas Terapêuticas resgatadas de um registro textual, O livro da oficina de história. De forma geral, notamos que o registro do Livro da oficina de história marca dois momentos principais. No primeiro momento, o registro era uma narrativa do que acontecia na Oficina, quem estava, o que estava fazendo etc., e uma história se desenrolava a partir daí. Já no segundo momento as crianças tiveram um papel mais ativo na construção das narrativas, inventando histórias novas e experimentando o mundo do faz-de-conta. Parece que a experiência de vivenciar um eu-descrito possibilitou o surgimento de um eu-narrador: momento no qual as crianças eram, ao mesmo tempo, personagens e criadoras de personagens e, de alguma forma, começaram a brincar de fazer histórias. O brincar articula a rede de todas as funções e tarefas pelas quais passamos para o desenvolvimento do sentimento de si mesmo, e observamos que criar histórias é também uma forma de brincar criativo / This paper intends to study the use of stories in clinical encounter with psychotic children. We propose that stories bring us closer to human nature experience; in hearing/reading a story, the hearer/reader is able to recognize a meaning relative to his/her own life. Such a theme emerged through the experience of working in a Therapeutical Workshop of Stories. It was a part of a clinical device called GIRAMUNDO therapeutical workshops and inclusion, hosted by the Ana Maria Poppovics Psychological Clinic in PUC/SP. To attain the aforementioned objective, we studied the storys characteristics, correlating them to the theme of experience, and after associating them with the winnicottian concepts of transitionality and creativity. From Winnicotts theory regarding primitive emotional development, we considered how the tradition and transmission of stories could be related to specificities in child psychosis treatment. This is a qualitative research of psychoanalytical approach. Given the fact that a qualitative research aims to improve the modes of understanding the world of experience, this study was made through the reading of scenes and situations lived in clinical encounters in Therapeutical Workshops taken from a textual record, O livro da oficina de história (The book of the Workshop of Stories). In general, this record has two major time frames. In the first one, the record was a narrative of what took place in the workshop (who was there, what they were doing, etc.) and the story unraveled from there. In the second, the children had a more active role in the narratives construction, creating new stories and experiencing the make-believe world. It seems that experiencing a describedme allowed the appearance of an I-narrator: moment in which the children were, at the same time, characters and creators of characters and, in a way, started playing by making stories. Playing links the network of functions and tasks that we must live through for the development of the feeling of self, and we observed that making stories is also a form of creative playing

Thesis advisor: Marilyn Cochran-Smith / The clinical experience of future urban teachers is increasingly regarded as one of the most important aspects of teacher preparation (NCATE, 2010; NRC, 2010). However, there is widespread agreement that further knowledge must be acquired on what constitutes rich clinical experience, and on the influence of such learning opportunities especially in urban, high-needs contexts (Anderson & Stillman, 2013; Levine, 2006; Picus, Monk, & Knight, 2012). This dissertation aims to increase our understanding of clinical experience. Based on sociocultural and socio-constructivist perspectives, and drawing on Lave and Wenger’s (1991) theories of learning within communities of practice, this dissertation employed qualitative research methods to examine the phenomenon of content coaching during an urban teacher residency program. This dissertation argues that residency content coaching provided a context within which residents could integrate what they were learning about “ambitious teaching” (Lampert & Graziani, 2009; Newmann & Wehlage, 1993) into their own practice through ongoing negotiations with their coaches. Coaching interactions were by and large responsive to individual resident’s learning needs, and guided residents to begin to place their students’ learning at the center of decision-making when planning, teaching, and assessing. The dissertation further investigates the actual and aspirational characteristics of coaching in this context. Overall findings suggest that content coaching addresses several persistent problems of traditional pre-service fieldwork supervision (Darling-Hammond, 2010; Featherstone, 2007), and offers a more coherent approach. Consequently, this dissertation contributes to our collective understanding of clinical experience in preparing teachers to teach ambitiously in urban classrooms. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

Residency II teacher candidates seeking education licensure at the southeastern public state university had low evaluation scores on their ability to provide feedback and modify instruction based on assessment. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how 27 Residency II teacher candidates modified instruction based on assessment data during their field experience as indicated by the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM), Educational Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) Rubric 15 score, and self-reported qualitative surveys. The focus of the research questions included a conceptual framework for examining the level of assessment proficiency on the local and national assessments. The congruency of these three measures of data analysis addressed the courses and field experiences of Residency II clinical teacher candidates. The major findings were that teacher candidates were meeting expectations of the edTPA and TEAM; however, the preexisting teacher candidates' surveys indicated that there was a lack of satisfaction with their data training. Evidence indicated that the EDTPA and TEAM provided the quantitative measurements but did not provide the qualitative feedback to address any modifications in the instruction. The possible social change implications of this study involves the Residency II teacher candidates participating in an organized, 3-day workshop to have a purposeful experience where they learned collectively and enriched their field experiences while exceeding the required expectations of the edTPA and TEAM assessments.

Zielsetzung dieser Arbeit ist die Vorstellung des klinischen Aufbaus und des Arbeitsablaufs eines robotischen Assistenzsystems für bildgeführte Interventionen in einem konventionellen Magnetresonanztomographen (MRT), sowie die Beurteilung der Genauigkeit und der klinischen Erfahrungen bei perkutanen Biopsien in verschieden Körperregionen. Material und Methoden: Das MR- kompatible, servopneumatische robotische Assistenzsystem lässt sich mit dem Patienten in die 60- cm Gantry eines Standard- MR- Scanners fahren. Die Genauigkeit des Systems wurde anhand von Nadelpunktionen (n= 25) in einem Phantommodell ermittelt. Perkutane diagnostische Biopsien wurden bei sechs Patienten durchgeführt. Ergebnisse: Für eine Interventionstiefe zwischen 29 und 95 mm wurde eine 3-DGenauigkeit von 2,2 +/- 0,7 mm (Intervall 0,9- 3,8 mm) bestimmt. Patienten mit einem BMI bis zu ≈30 kg/m2 konnten mit dem System punktiert werden. Die klinischen Arbeitsschritte werden anhand der Fallbeispiele dargestellt. Die mittlere Interventionszeit betrug 44 Minuten (Intervall 36 – 68 Minuten). Zusammenfassung: Die Punktion verschiedener Körperregionen ist mit Hilfe des robotischen Assistenzsystems in einem geschlossenen MRT erfolgreich und sicher möglich. Die Genauigkeit des Systems ist vergleichbar mit anderen Assistenzsystemen in der Literatur und genügt den klinischen Anforderungen. Eine kürzere Interventionszeit ist mittels einer Optimierung der einzelnen Arbeitsschritte möglich.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar o uso de histórias no encontro clínico com crianças psicóticas. Entendemos que as histórias nos aproximam de experiências da natureza humana; na experiência de ouvir/ler uma história, é possível ao ouvinte/leitor reconhecer nela um sentido relativo à sua própria vida. Tal tema surgiu a partir da própria experiência clínica, numa Oficina Terapêutica de História. A Oficina Terapêutica era parte do dispositivo clínico GIRAMUNDO oficinas terapêuticas e inclusão, da Clínica Psicológica Ana Maria Poppovic da PUC/SP. Para alcançarmos o objetivo proposto, estudamos as características das histórias, relacionando-as ao tema da experiência e articulando-as, posteriormente, com os conceitos winnicottianos de transicionalidade e criatividade. A partir da teoria de Winnicott sobre o desenvolvimento emocional primitivo pensamos em como a transmissão e a tradição das histórias podem ser articuladas às especificidades da clínica da psicose infantil. A pesquisa é qualitativa, de abordagem psicanalítica. Levando em conta que a pesquisa qualitativa busca aperfeiçoar as formas que tornam possível compreender o mundo da experiência, tal estudo foi realizado por uma leitura das situações e cenas vividas no encontro clínico em Oficinas Terapêuticas resgatadas de um registro textual, O livro da oficina de história. De forma geral, notamos que o registro do Livro da oficina de história marca dois momentos principais. No primeiro momento, o registro era uma narrativa do que acontecia na Oficina, quem estava, o que estava fazendo etc., e uma história se desenrolava a partir daí. Já no segundo momento as crianças tiveram um papel mais ativo na construção das narrativas, inventando histórias novas e experimentando o mundo do faz-de-conta. Parece que a experiência de vivenciar um eu-descrito possibilitou o surgimento de um eu-narrador: momento no qual as crianças eram, ao mesmo tempo, personagens e criadoras de personagens e, de alguma forma, começaram a brincar de fazer histórias. O brincar articula a rede de todas as funções e tarefas pelas quais passamos para o desenvolvimento do sentimento de si mesmo, e observamos que criar histórias é também uma forma de brincar criativo / This paper intends to study the use of stories in clinical encounter with psychotic children. We propose that stories bring us closer to human nature experience; in hearing/reading a story, the hearer/reader is able to recognize a meaning relative to his/her own life. Such a theme emerged through the experience of working in a Therapeutical Workshop of Stories. It was a part of a clinical device called GIRAMUNDO therapeutical workshops and inclusion, hosted by the Ana Maria Poppovics Psychological Clinic in PUC/SP. To attain the aforementioned objective, we studied the storys characteristics, correlating them to the theme of experience, and after associating them with the winnicottian concepts of transitionality and creativity. From Winnicotts theory regarding primitive emotional development, we considered how the tradition and transmission of stories could be related to specificities in child psychosis treatment. This is a qualitative research of psychoanalytical approach. Given the fact that a qualitative research aims to improve the modes of understanding the world of experience, this study was made through the reading of scenes and situations lived in clinical encounters in Therapeutical Workshops taken from a textual record, O livro da oficina de história (The book of the Workshop of Stories). In general, this record has two major time frames. In the first one, the record was a narrative of what took place in the workshop (who was there, what they were doing, etc.) and the story unraveled from there. In the second, the children had a more active role in the narratives construction, creating new stories and experiencing the make-believe world. It seems that experiencing a describedme allowed the appearance of an I-narrator: moment in which the children were, at the same time, characters and creators of characters and, in a way, started playing by making stories. Playing links the network of functions and tasks that we must live through for the development of the feeling of self, and we observed that making stories is also a form of creative playing