Learning Needs Assessment University of Ottawa

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Learning Needs AssessmentUniversity of Ottawa

• Undergraduate curriculum review interviews with
  cycle coordinators
• No coherent plan for palliative/end of life
  education
• Student questionnaires for assessing their
  learning needs
• 4th Year class
• Administered April 12
• 125 students 90 in class 60 returned

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4th Year Student Questionnaires

• English French
• Cover letter
• Demographics, experience with terminally ill
• Education experience (perceived)
• Quick Quiz (observed)
• English only
• Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying Scale
  (1991) English only

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Status of Needs Assessment

• Data entry, analysis of questionnaires
• Compare results with School of Nursing learning
  needs assessment
• Validate Quick Quiz
• Key informant interviews when/if we get funding
  in the fall
• Integrate Ontario Palliative Undergraduate
  Network (OPUN) competencies into curriculum
• Design OSCE for Fall 2005