Background: Evidence based practice enhances service planning and delivery, clinical decision making and patient care. However, health professionals often lack the time and opportunity to access or generate evidence. Research capacity building is thus an important mechanism for improving health service delivery. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a UK-wide Nurse and Allied Health Professional musculoskeletal research internship programme in which graduates applied to undertake their internship through one of five Higher Education Institutions. The evaluation explores the experiences of interns and their mentors. Methods: Sixteen new graduates completed the internship programme (September 2015-August 2018). Twelve interns and thirteen mentors participated in the evaluation. The evaluation used qualitative asynchronous emailbased interviews to explore the experiences of interns and mentors. Interpretive phenomenological analysis of coded transcripts identified principal themes. Results: Early research outputs from the interns include three peer reviewed publications and 21 conference abstract presentations. Two interns were in full time research at the time of interview or had a research component in their clinical role. Nine interns in clinical posts disclosed plans to return to research in the near future. Seven themes were identified: the impact on interns' careers; personal impact (for example, influence on self-confidence); impact on clinical practice; drivers for applying; intervention design (for example, attitudes concerning the timing and duration of the intervention); mentorship and networking (including general support provided and quality of career advice); challenges. Conclusion: The internship programme is an effective model in building research capacity in musculoskeletal research for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, influencing careers, building confidence and improving clinical practice. The internship programme has the potential to be replicable to other clinical contexts nationally and internationally.

mean 5.7, teacher mean 6.0), large group lectures (student mean 5.0, teacher mean 5.5), private textbook work (student mean 4.7, teacher mean 5.7) or listening to podcasts (student mean 3.6, teacher mean 5.6). Individual sessions should ideally be 30-60 minutes (65.5% of students, 80% of teachers) or 1-2 hours (32.5% of students, 20% of teachers) in duration. Willingness to attend sessions out of hours varied with 33% of students and 5% of teachers stating ''probably'', 31% of students and 55% of teachers stating ''probably not'' and 21% of students, 30% of teachers ''unsure''. Conclusion: This study shows a correlation between the views of students and teachers with regard to undergraduate rheumatology, particularly in relation to preferred teaching methods. Patient-centred teaching in hospitals scored highly. Students showed greater willingness to attend sessions out of hours than teachers. Shorter session durations were preferred, which concurs with the basic physiological needs described by Maslow. Medical students are a diverse group, have multiple learning styles and prefer information to be provided in a variety of ways. Consequently, educators should aim to prioritise the preferred teaching methods identified in this study and avoid or look for ways to improve methods that are felt to be less useful.

Background: Evidence based practice enhances service planning and delivery, clinical decision making and patient care. However, health professionals often lack the time and opportunity to access or generate evidence. Research capacity building is thus an important mechanism for improving health service delivery. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a UK-wide Nurse and Allied Health Professional musculoskeletal research internship programme in which graduates applied to undertake their internship through one of five Higher Education Institutions. The evaluation explores the experiences of interns and their mentors.Methods: Sixteen new graduates completed the internship programme (September 2015 – August 2018). Twelve interns and thirteen mentors participated in the evaluation. The evaluation used qualitative asynchronous email-based interviews to explore the experiences of interns and mentors. Interpretive phenomenological analysis of coded transcripts identified principal themes.Results: Early research outputs from the interns include three peer reviewed publications and 21 conference abstract presentations. Two interns were in full time research at the time of interview or had a research component in their clinical role. Nine interns in clinical posts disclosed plans to return to research in the near future. Seven themes were identified: the impact on interns’ careers; personal impact (for example, influence on self-confidence); impact on clinical practice; drivers for applying; intervention design (for example, attitudes concerning the timing and duration of the intervention); mentorship and networking (including general support provided and quality of career advice); challenges.Conclusion: The internship programme is an effective model in building research capacity in musculoskeletal research for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, influencing careers, building confidence and improving clinical practice. The internship programme has the potential to be replicable to other clinical contexts nationally and internationally.

This quantitative experimental study compared a modified group form of child-centered play therapy (CCPT) called Child-Centered Group Play Counseling (CCGPC), a psychoeducational group, and a nontherapeutic control group in an elementary school setting. Participants included second, third, and fourth graders from 7 elementary schools, who exhibited behavioral and social skills deficits. School counselors conducted the groups weekly for 8 weeks. The CCGPC groups were all conducted by a school counselor who was also a registered play therapist. The research questions examined externalizing problem behaviors and social skills with children who received three types of group counseling in an elementary school. The CCGPC group showed statistical significance in reducing externalizing behavior as well as increasing social skills. Both the psychoeducational group and the control group also showed statistical significance in reducing externalizing behavior and increasing social skills. When examining the participants' self-perceptions, CCGPC did not show statistical significance in increasing social skills. There was no statistically significant difference in the variables when examining the results between the 3 groups.

Background: Evidence based practice enhances service planning and delivery, clinical decision making and patient care. However, health professionals often lack the time and opportunity to access or generate evidence. Research capacity building is thus an important mechanism for improving health service delivery. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a UK-wide Nurse and Allied Health Professional musculoskeletal research internship programme in which graduates applied to undertake their internship through one of five Higher Education Institutions. The evaluation explores the experiences of interns and their mentors. Methods: Sixteen new graduates completed the internship programme (September 2015 – August 2018). Twelve interns and thirteen mentors participated in the evaluation. The evaluation used qualitative asynchronous email-based interviews to explore the experiences of interns and mentors. Interpretive phenomenological analysis of coded transcripts identified principal themes. Results: Early research outputs from the interns include three peer reviewed publications and 21 conference abstract presentations. Two interns were in full time research at the time of interview or had a research component in their clinical role. Nine interns in clinical posts disclosed plans to return to research in the near future. Seven themes were identified: the impact on interns’ careers; personal impact (for example, influence on self-confidence); impact on clinical practice; drivers for applying; intervention design (for example, attitudes concerning the timing and duration of the intervention); mentorship and networking (including general support provided and quality of career advice); challenges. Conclusion: The internship programme is an effective model in building research capacity in musculoskeletal research for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, influencing careers, building confidence and improving clinical practice. The internship programme has the potential to be replicable to other clinical contexts nationally and internationally.