{"title":"How the Sausage Gets Made: A Reflective Journey Learning Curriculum Development.","authors":"Benjamin Vipler","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_247_23","DOIUrl":"10.4103/efh.efh_247_23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138478929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rim Taleb, Aghati El Ghazzawi, Rania Itani, Lea Itani, Mostafa Kamal Itani
{"title":"The impact of medical errors and provided support on lebanese family physicians: Needs in education.","authors":"Rim Taleb, Aghati El Ghazzawi, Rania Itani, Lea Itani, Mostafa Kamal Itani","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_187_22","DOIUrl":"10.4103/efh.efh_187_22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138478948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmiliaGrace Palmer, RohinKumar Reddy, MeganE L. Brown, William Laughey
Background Due to the potential for improved team working and patient care, interprofessional education (IPE) is increasingly recognized as a core competency within the education of health-care professionals. Methods In response to cancellation of the physician associate (PA) acute medicine clinical placement at our institution following COVID-19, a technology-focused, case-based IPE course between medical and PA students was implemented. The course consisted of 6 weekly seminars involving an average of 16 PA students, two medical students, and two supervising general practitioners. Course evaluation was mixed methods, comprising pre/postcourse questionnaires, weekly feedback forms, and postcourse e-mail interviews. Results The course improved the confidence and perceived knowledge base of all participating students across every clinical topic covered, while promoting interprofessional collaboration and understanding. Discussion To our knowledge, this represents one of the first IPE courses implemented between medical and PA students alone and has highlighted the need for further IPE courses between both professions. We show that successful IPE is feasible during a global pandemic, and that initiatives relying on technology alone are successful. Weekly written feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and based on the success of this course, faculty have planned further IPE opportunities between both professions.
{"title":"The interprofessional education of medical students and physician associate students during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"EmiliaGrace Palmer, RohinKumar Reddy, MeganE L. Brown, William Laughey","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_518_20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.efh_518_20","url":null,"abstract":"Background\u0000Due to the potential for improved team working and patient care, interprofessional education (IPE) is increasingly recognized as a core competency within the education of health-care professionals.\u0000\u0000\u0000Methods\u0000In response to cancellation of the physician associate (PA) acute medicine clinical placement at our institution following COVID-19, a technology-focused, case-based IPE course between medical and PA students was implemented. The course consisted of 6 weekly seminars involving an average of 16 PA students, two medical students, and two supervising general practitioners. Course evaluation was mixed methods, comprising pre/postcourse questionnaires, weekly feedback forms, and postcourse e-mail interviews.\u0000\u0000\u0000Results\u0000The course improved the confidence and perceived knowledge base of all participating students across every clinical topic covered, while promoting interprofessional collaboration and understanding.\u0000\u0000\u0000Discussion\u0000To our knowledge, this represents one of the first IPE courses implemented between medical and PA students alone and has highlighted the need for further IPE courses between both professions. We show that successful IPE is feasible during a global pandemic, and that initiatives relying on technology alone are successful. Weekly written feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and based on the success of this course, faculty have planned further IPE opportunities between both professions.","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135913142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Background The academic clinician-educator (CE) often has a career spanning 40 or more years. Retirement represents the last stage of one's professional identity. Planning for retirement can be both exciting and challenging. Although it would seem reasonable that there would be research addressing the transition to retirement that incorporates guidance on important decisions or pathways to retirement with outcomes related to satisfaction, adjustment, or fulfillment in retirement, in fact, there is minimal such research. As CEs, the recently retired authors have drawn on our experiences in pediatrics as the foundation for our inquiry. The authors suggest that retirement decisions and needs differ in academic health center (AHC) faculty from those in health-care private practice. As an example, we suggest that CEs in all specialties, and likely other senior faculty in the health sciences, may have unique opportunities in retirement to enrich their institutions and their specialty organizations. The gaps we have encountered and our experiences in the retirement process have resulted in this paper, in which we encourage research that will inform more substantial, timely, and practical advice going forward. Methods Our exploration of retirement from AHC careers includes two foci: (1) A review of relevant literature on retirement issues the CE, AHC, and national educator organizations might consider important in this transition process; and (2) the description of a theoretical framework known as Conservation of Resources Theory simply to help organize perspectives on the losses, gains, or conservation of tangible and intangible resources to weigh in the planning and transition process. Results Several considerations relevant to retirement planning, both specific to academic faculty retirement in the health sciences and to retirement planning more broadly, emerged from our literature exploration. However, there were virtually no studies addressing these considerations, both personal and professional, accompanied by tracking their impact on satisfaction or well-being once in retirement. Discussion Emerging from our examination of literature and our experiences in transitioning to retirement are a number of questions deserving of further study, likely in longitudinal, comparative or more broadly in global inquiries, in the effort to develop models to guide the retiring academic CE. Over the next decade, there will be so many faculty members considering or negotiating retirement that there is an urgent need to develop and study models that both inform this process and monitor outcomes in terms of satisfaction with the retirement years.
{"title":"Academic clinician educators: Confronting the challenges to successful retirement","authors":"JanetE Fischel, Larrie Greenberg, Benjamin Siegel","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_192_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.efh_192_22","url":null,"abstract":"Background\u0000The academic clinician-educator (CE) often has a career spanning 40 or more years. Retirement represents the last stage of one's professional identity. Planning for retirement can be both exciting and challenging. Although it would seem reasonable that there would be research addressing the transition to retirement that incorporates guidance on important decisions or pathways to retirement with outcomes related to satisfaction, adjustment, or fulfillment in retirement, in fact, there is minimal such research. As CEs, the recently retired authors have drawn on our experiences in pediatrics as the foundation for our inquiry. The authors suggest that retirement decisions and needs differ in academic health center (AHC) faculty from those in health-care private practice. As an example, we suggest that CEs in all specialties, and likely other senior faculty in the health sciences, may have unique opportunities in retirement to enrich their institutions and their specialty organizations. The gaps we have encountered and our experiences in the retirement process have resulted in this paper, in which we encourage research that will inform more substantial, timely, and practical advice going forward.\u0000\u0000\u0000Methods\u0000Our exploration of retirement from AHC careers includes two foci: (1) A review of relevant literature on retirement issues the CE, AHC, and national educator organizations might consider important in this transition process; and (2) the description of a theoretical framework known as Conservation of Resources Theory simply to help organize perspectives on the losses, gains, or conservation of tangible and intangible resources to weigh in the planning and transition process.\u0000\u0000\u0000Results\u0000Several considerations relevant to retirement planning, both specific to academic faculty retirement in the health sciences and to retirement planning more broadly, emerged from our literature exploration. However, there were virtually no studies addressing these considerations, both personal and professional, accompanied by tracking their impact on satisfaction or well-being once in retirement.\u0000\u0000\u0000Discussion\u0000Emerging from our examination of literature and our experiences in transitioning to retirement are a number of questions deserving of further study, likely in longitudinal, comparative or more broadly in global inquiries, in the effort to develop models to guide the retiring academic CE. Over the next decade, there will be so many faculty members considering or negotiating retirement that there is an urgent need to develop and study models that both inform this process and monitor outcomes in terms of satisfaction with the retirement years.","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135913349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Background Perceptions of patients of the nature and quality of the interaction with their doctors during consultation are potentially an important factor determining patient satisfaction and doctors' success. Failure by medical doctors to understand how patients perceive them or what patients desire from them may hinder the establishment of strong, trust-based doctor-patient relationships. The purpose of this study was to explore the health service users' views in a region of Botswana on what constitutes optimal doctor-patient interaction during consultation and propose recommendations for integration into medical education curricula. Methods A purposive sample of 12 individuals was selected in a setting where health and well-being are underpinned by principles of interdependence and interpersonal connections (botho/ubuntu philosophy) for semi-structured interviews using the critical incident technique to elicit desired behaviors and actions of medical doctors during consultation. The participants described their good and bad consultation experiences with medical doctors. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results Three themes, derived from 11 codes, were identified from the data: conversational skills (welcoming and focused), interpersonal skills (humane, respectful, empathetic, unprejudiced, and personal), and professional traits (humble, trustworthy, thorough, and empowering). Discussion Many expressed desires or expectations correspond with humanistic attributes described in the literature, suggesting their universal value. More importantly, the desires and expectations align with the principles of the Bantu philosophy of botho/ubuntu. Accordingly, educators should intentionally provide learning opportunities for students to promote the development of the desired attributes that enhance an effective doctor-patient relationship but should employ culturally relevant pedagogy.
{"title":"Patients' perspectives on optimal doctor–patient interactions during medical consultation: Lessons for medical educators","authors":"Enoch Sepako, MmolokiCornelius Molwantwa","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_593_20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.efh_593_20","url":null,"abstract":"Background\u0000Perceptions of patients of the nature and quality of the interaction with their doctors during consultation are potentially an important factor determining patient satisfaction and doctors' success. Failure by medical doctors to understand how patients perceive them or what patients desire from them may hinder the establishment of strong, trust-based doctor-patient relationships. The purpose of this study was to explore the health service users' views in a region of Botswana on what constitutes optimal doctor-patient interaction during consultation and propose recommendations for integration into medical education curricula.\u0000\u0000\u0000Methods\u0000A purposive sample of 12 individuals was selected in a setting where health and well-being are underpinned by principles of interdependence and interpersonal connections (botho/ubuntu philosophy) for semi-structured interviews using the critical incident technique to elicit desired behaviors and actions of medical doctors during consultation. The participants described their good and bad consultation experiences with medical doctors. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis.\u0000\u0000\u0000Results\u0000Three themes, derived from 11 codes, were identified from the data: conversational skills (welcoming and focused), interpersonal skills (humane, respectful, empathetic, unprejudiced, and personal), and professional traits (humble, trustworthy, thorough, and empowering).\u0000\u0000\u0000Discussion\u0000Many expressed desires or expectations correspond with humanistic attributes described in the literature, suggesting their universal value. More importantly, the desires and expectations align with the principles of the Bantu philosophy of botho/ubuntu. Accordingly, educators should intentionally provide learning opportunities for students to promote the development of the desired attributes that enhance an effective doctor-patient relationship but should employ culturally relevant pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135913576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creation and analysis of a Lao American collaborative medical education facebook page","authors":"AlecRobert Baca, Sanyalack Saysanasongkham, Carmelle Wallace, SpencerS Seballos, Southida Konphanthavong, Sengthien Khamvongsa, Jake Luo, KeriA Cohn","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_241_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.efh_241_21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135913944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Glasser, Danette McKinley, Payal Bansal, David Bor, Robert Woollard
{"title":"EfH Tribute to Dr. Hilliard (Hill) Jason","authors":"Michael Glasser, Danette McKinley, Payal Bansal, David Bor, Robert Woollard","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_221_23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.efh_221_23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135911268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MuhammadAugie Bashar, RobynL van Zyl, Jacqui Miot, PatriciaA McInerney
Background Antibiotics are precious substances that have saved millions of lives since their discovery, resulting in significant advances in modern medicine. However, antibiotic resistance and a slowdown in the discovery of new antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action are affecting the sustainability of antibiotics. The objective of this study was to describe the content of South African and Nigerian medical students' curricula with respect to prudent antimicrobial prescribing. Methods A content analysis framework was used to identify, describe, and count the keywords, key phrases, and sentences relevant to the teaching of prudent antimicrobial prescribing in the complete curricula content of two African countries' medical schools. The courses are taught in the Graduate Entry Medical Programme (GEMP) curriculum (years 3-6) of the South African medical school and years 4-6 of the Nigerian medical school. The frequency of keywords/key phrases relevant to prudent antibiotic prescribing such as antimicrobial stewardship, mechanisms of bacterial resistance, and principles of antibiotic therapy was determined. Results The two curricula reviewed were found to be different. While the South African medical school uses an integrated curriculum in the GEMP (a stream where candidates with undergraduate degrees are enrolled into the 3rd year of medical school and spend 4 years), the Nigerian medical school operates a traditional (discipline based) curriculum from MBBS 1-6. A greater number of keywords and key phrases were found in the South African curriculum compared to the Nigerian curriculum in relation to prudent antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial stewardship. The key phrase "antimicrobial stewardship" or "antibiotic stewardship" was absent in the Nigerian curriculum but appeared four times in the South African curriculum. Discussion The findings of this curriculum review suggest a need for revision of the medical curricula of the two countries, to one that will better prepare learners for antimicrobial stewardship.
{"title":"A content analysis of two african medical schools' antibiotic stewardship curricula","authors":"MuhammadAugie Bashar, RobynL van Zyl, Jacqui Miot, PatriciaA McInerney","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_34_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.efh_34_22","url":null,"abstract":"Background\u0000Antibiotics are precious substances that have saved millions of lives since their discovery, resulting in significant advances in modern medicine. However, antibiotic resistance and a slowdown in the discovery of new antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action are affecting the sustainability of antibiotics. The objective of this study was to describe the content of South African and Nigerian medical students' curricula with respect to prudent antimicrobial prescribing.\u0000\u0000\u0000Methods\u0000A content analysis framework was used to identify, describe, and count the keywords, key phrases, and sentences relevant to the teaching of prudent antimicrobial prescribing in the complete curricula content of two African countries' medical schools. The courses are taught in the Graduate Entry Medical Programme (GEMP) curriculum (years 3-6) of the South African medical school and years 4-6 of the Nigerian medical school. The frequency of keywords/key phrases relevant to prudent antibiotic prescribing such as antimicrobial stewardship, mechanisms of bacterial resistance, and principles of antibiotic therapy was determined.\u0000\u0000\u0000Results\u0000The two curricula reviewed were found to be different. While the South African medical school uses an integrated curriculum in the GEMP (a stream where candidates with undergraduate degrees are enrolled into the 3rd year of medical school and spend 4 years), the Nigerian medical school operates a traditional (discipline based) curriculum from MBBS 1-6. A greater number of keywords and key phrases were found in the South African curriculum compared to the Nigerian curriculum in relation to prudent antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial stewardship. The key phrase \"antimicrobial stewardship\" or \"antibiotic stewardship\" was absent in the Nigerian curriculum but appeared four times in the South African curriculum.\u0000\u0000\u0000Discussion\u0000The findings of this curriculum review suggest a need for revision of the medical curricula of the two countries, to one that will better prepare learners for antimicrobial stewardship.","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135914236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing burnout rates and resiliency in five groups of medical residents","authors":"Angele McGrady, Julie Brennan, Bushra Rizwan, John Egbo, Carolynn McCartney, Amy Riese","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_289_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.efh_289_21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135913143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Co-editors' notes","authors":"Danette McKinley, Michael Glasser, Payal Bansal","doi":"10.4103/efh.efh_240_23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/efh.efh_240_23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46742,"journal":{"name":"Education for Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135913148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}