Perception of Undergraduate Physical Therapy Students of Dual Role of Clinical Educator As A Mentor or Assessor: Influence on The Teaching-Learning Relationship

Abstract

Academics clinical education is significant backbone of physiotherapy professionals' schooling and it is express as vital components which makes ready professionals of physiotherapy for experience in
clinical set-up.
Objective:
To investigate understudies' view of how the dual role of CEs as mentor and evaluator affected T-L relationship.
Methodology:
Self-oriented questionnaire was used using the quantitative research approach. A cross-sectional survey design was used in this study. Consenting undergraduate physiotherapy clinical students from
university of Lahore, Pakistan who had clinical education for at least one year completed the questionnaire. Consecutive sampling was used to recruit samples of 225 understudies.
Results:
The difficulties were noticed when CE needed to behave and acting as the two evaluator and guider to the necessity of understudies. They change their behavior. This affected the relationship of teaching
and learning thus affected the studying of undergrad learners. Desires for understudies and CE were frequently not satisfied.

Conclusions: Discoveries found out in investigation, based on the perspectives or the encounters that understudies have of double job of their CEs, become featured. This situation become critical to think about difficulties which are faced by understudies so as to limit possible harmful impacts on understudies' studying environment caused by difficulties.
Keywords:
Physiotherapy students, dual role of CEs, mentor and assessor, Pakistan.