Mentors without borders: mentoring international healthcare students
Charles University, Third faculty of medicine ·Czechia
About this project
<p>The project reflects the long-term cooperation between the partners within the nursing education and Erasmus + programme. It is focused on enhancing the professional and intercultural competencies of the clinical mentors and thus increasing the quality of clinical education.<br> The objectives of the project:<br> - Develop knowledge on the international mentors` and students` needs, possible barriers to quality learning and teaching in clinical environment and in the context of intercultural differences. Define the specific competencies of mentoring international students in clinical placements.<br> - Develop and test a mentors`- tailored MOOC to enhance the international mentors` capacity for facilitation, supervision and assessment of nursing students.<br> The results/outputs:<br> - Mentor – centred MOOC which will be the base on which future joint study programmes and new curriculum can be developed.<br> - Teaching staff and clinical professionals` research network<br> - Scientific paper on the needs of the international mentors and students and the specific competencies of the mentors to enhance clinical based learning within international context.<br> The results should have impact on the students` and mentors` satisfaction with the process of clinical education. The students` and mentors’ encounters with the intercultural diversities will make them more sensitive to their own educational needs, needs of the patients, healthcare colleagues and wider community.</p>
Bilateral cooperation results
Since the aim of the project was to enhance the competences and intercultural skills of clinical mentors of international healthcare students, it was important to have a donor project partner with equivalent teaching experience and needs related to improving clinical teaching of international students, enhancing involvement of healthcare institutions, and increasing the mentors’ professional satisfaction. The collaboration will continue; the teachers of the promoter and donor partner will share the responsibility in online tutoring and support of the students who take the MOOC. Secondly the Erasmus+ programme will continue on baccalaureate and master’s degree level.
Project partners
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Donor project partner· Norway