Mieke Embo

• BSc, MS PhD
• Researcher Health Care & Education at Ghent University

Background Video review is a feasible, commonly used learning tool, but current literature lacks a comprehensive review of its impact on learning in postgraduate medical education. This systematic review aims at examining the learning effect of video review of resident performance in clinical practice during postgraduate medical education. Methods...

Background Nursing homes face a critical need for competent healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality care. Focusing on clinical leadership is crucial for equipping healthcare professionals with the skills necessary to manage complex care needs, collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams, and improve care quality in nursing homes...

Deze richtlijn beschrijft klinische praktijkrichtlijnen bij een laagrisicobevalling. De richtlijn geeft adviezen over de aanpak bij een normale geboorte bij gezonde zwangere vrouwen met een laag verloskundig risico. Samenvatting: https://ebpnet.be/nl/ebsources/9818?searchTerm=bevalling&filter_professions=1724&professions=1724

Interprofessional communication is crucial for patient care, yet there is a dearth of comprehensive assessment tools essential to train and assess healthcare students. While the Interprofessional Educational Collaborative framework (IPEC) outlines eight sub-competencies, it lacks detailed behavioral indicators. This study aimed to create a reposito...

Aim(s) To conceptualise and identify characteristics of clinical leadership in the nursing home setting. Design A qualitative study using semi‐structured focus group interviews and a thematic analysis. Methods Five semi‐structured focus group interviews were conducted with 41 healthcare professionals from nursing and other healthcare disciplines...

Background Work-integrated learning (WIL) is widely accepted and necessary to attain the essential competencies healthcare students need at their future workplaces. Yet, competency-based education (CBE) remains complex. There often is a focus on daily practice during WIL. Hereby, continuous competency development is at stake. Moreover, the fact tha...

Aims The aim of the study was to develop a comprehensive competency framework for advanced practice nurses in Belgium. Design A co‐design development process was conducted. Methods This study consisted of two consecutive stages (November 2020–December 2021): (1) developing a competency framework for advanced practice nurses in Belgium by the rese...

Introduction Competency-based education requires high-quality feedback to guide students’ acquisition of competencies. Sound assessment and feedback systems, such as ePortfolios, are needed to facilitate seeking and giving feedback during clinical placements. However, it is unclear whether the written feedback comments in ePortfolios are of high qu...

Introduction Manually analysing the quality of large amounts of written feedback comments is time-consuming and demands extensive resources and human effort. Therefore, this study aimed to explore whether a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) could be fine-tuned to identify the presence of four literature-derived feedback quality criteria (...

A qualified health workforce is essential to receiving effective, timely, affordable, equitable and respectful family planning and comprehensive abortion care. However, in many countries, health workers lack the competencies required to deliver quality family planning and comprehensive abortion care services. Competency-based education and learning...

Background Electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) are valuable tools to scaffold workplace learning. Feedback is an essential element of the learning process, but it often lacks quality when incorporated in ePortfolios, while research on how to incorporate feedback into an ePortfolio design is scarce. Objectives To compare the ease of use, usefulnes...

Background Work-integrated learning constitutes a large part of current healthcare education. During the last decades, a competency-based educational (CBE) approach has been introduced to reduce the theory-practice gap and to promote continuous competency development. Different frameworks and models have been developed to support CBE implementation...

Objectives: To identify the main enablers and challenges for workplace learning during postgraduate medical education among residents and their supervisors involved in training hospital specialists across different medical specialties and clinical teaching departments. Methods: A qualitative explorative study using semi-structured focus group in...

Background In view of the exponential use of the CanMEDS framework along with the lack of rigorous evidence about its applicability in workplace-based medical trainings, further exploring is necessary before accepting the framework as accurate and reliable competency outcomes for postgraduate medical trainings. Therefore, this study investigated wh...

Aim This scoping review aims at providing a summary of available knowledge about the role of ePortfolios in scaffolding learning in eight healthcare disciplines to identify main concepts, best practices, and knowledge gaps. Background ePortfolios are well established in scaffolding learning in many healthcare disciplines. Yet, an overview of the e...

ePortfolios are frequently used to support students' competency development, and teachers' and clinical mentors' supervision during clinical placements. User training is considered a critical success factor for the implementation of these ePortfolios. However, there is ambiguity about the design and outcomes of ePortfolio user training. A scoping r...

Background In view of the exponential use of the CanMEDS framework along with the lack of rigorous evidence about its applicability in workplace-based medical trainings, further exploring is necessary before accepting the framework as valid and reliable competency outcomes for postgraduate medical trainings. Therefore, this study investigated wheth...

Background Several competency frameworks are being developed to support competency-based education (CBE). In medical education, extensive literature exists about validated competency frameworks for example, the CanMEDS competency framework. In contrast, comparable literature is limited in nursing, midwifery, and allied health disciplines. Therefore...

Competency-based education (CBE) has transformed medical training during the last decades. In Flanders (Belgium), multiple competency frameworks are being used concurrently guiding paediatric postgraduate CBE. This study aimed to merge these frameworks into an integrated competency framework for postgraduate paediatric training. In a first phase, t...

Abstract Background: Rwanda and other low-income countries face a critical shortage of competent midwives. This capacity problem threatens the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Competency-based midwifery education (CBME) holds the best promise of developing competencies and improving patient outcomes. However, challenges aris...

A state-of-the-art review about ePortfolio use in 8 undergraduate healthcare educational programs Janssens Oona, Embo Mieke, Haerens Leen, Valcke Martin Background and aim(s) – EPortfolios have attained an established position in healthcare education and studies exploring the use of ePortfolios increased exponentially. Yet, a comprehensive, inte...

Background and objective: The clinical teaching portfolio is a practical tool for integrating theory and practice towards the growth of midwifery students. Both paper-based portfolios (PBP) and electronic portfolios (EP) are known and recognized as tools that can assist midwifery educators to develop students’ analytical and critical thinking. Henc...

Objective Development and validation of a set of quality indicators for vulnerable women during the perinatal period. Design A three-phase method was used. Phase 1 consisted of a literature review to identify publications for the development of care domains and potential QIs, as well as a quality assessment by the research team. In phase 2 an expe...

De gezondheidszorg in België is goed georganiseerd en volgt de maatschappelijke en economische evoluties van de ons omringende welvaartslanden. De samenleving hecht veel belang aan gezondheid en rekent op zorgverlening door competente gezondheidszorgbeoefenaars. Dit handboek beschrijft in enkele hoofdstukken belangrijke thema’s die de huidige gezon...

Background: Contemporary perspectives on regulated learning are moving beyond models, emphasising individual learning (self-regulated learning) to models that position social transactions at the core of learning (co-regulated learning). In discussing this paradigm shift, it is important to study self- and co-regulated learning in situational conte...

Competency-based workplace learning is well established in health care education and e-Portfolios have become increasingly popular among educators as valuable learning and assessment tools. e-Portfolios come in various shapes and forms, they are used in a multitude of different settings and for different purposes. Published studies show that e-Port...

Background Workplace learning plays a crucial role in midwifery education. Twelve midwifery schools in Flanders (Belgium) aimed to implement a standardized and evidence-based method to learn and assess competencies in practice. This study focuses on the validation of competency-based criteria to guide and assess undergraduate midwifery students’ po...

Professioneel gerichte bacheloropleidingen bestaan voor een groot deel uit stage. Stage of werkplekleren betekent dat studenten competenties verwerven in de reële professionele context. Het leren en beoordelen van competenties en het begeleiden van de continue competentiegroei op stage is complex omwille van talrijke factoren die de continuïteit ve...

Workplace learning plays a crucial role in midwifery education. Twelve midwifery schools in Flanders (Belgium) implemented a new competency framework and aimed at implementing a more standardized and evidence-based method to learn and assess competencies, as well as to guide continuous competency development in practice. This paper describes the in...

Conclusion: Undergraduate midwives are aware of the importance of CPD and the interplay of formal and informal learning activities. Virtual learning requires special attention to overcome CPD challenges.

Although competency-based education is well established in health care education, research shows that the competencies do not always match the reality of clinical workplaces. Therefore, there is a need to design feasible and evidence-based competency frameworks that fit the workplace reality. This theoretical paper outlines a competency-based frame...

The development of reflective learning skills is a continuous process that needs scaffolding. It can be described as a continuum, with the focus of reflection differing in granularity from recent, concrete activities to global competency development. Aim: To explore learners' perceptions regarding the effects of two reflective writing activities de...

Clinical workplaces are hectic and dynamic learning environments, which require students to take charge of their own learning. Competency development during clinical internships is a continuous process that is facilitated and guided by feedback. Limited feedback, lack of supervision and problematic assessment of clinical competencies make the devel...