招聘下一代农村医疗从业者:在线辅导计划对农村青年职业和教育目标的影响。

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-20 DOI:10.22605/RRH8216
Juliet Oshiro, Katherine Wisener, Angela L Nash, Blair Stanley, Sandra Jarvis-Selinger
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引言:人们越来越认识到,鼓励和支持农村青年从事医疗保健事业可能是解决农村医疗从业者短缺问题的一项有前途的战略。尽管参加健康科学项目的农村学生经常回到家乡社区实习,但他们在这些项目中的代表性仍然不足。地理隔离和社区规模小为农村学生的入学设置了障碍,包括缺乏教育和外展服务,以及在从事卫生科学职业方面有经验的榜样较少。通过将农村青年与社区外经验丰富的榜样联系起来,在线辅导有可能克服这些障碍;因此,我们测试了这种类型的干预是否可以用来增加对农村青年的兴趣,并引导他们从事农村医疗保健事业。方法:从2016年到2020年,我们的干预措施,不列颠哥伦比亚省农村eMentoring,将364名不列颠哥伦比亚省乡村青年与健康科学项目的近同龄人导师进行了匹配。通过一个在线平台,二人组通过由八个单元组成的半结构化课程讨论了职业和教育选择以及途径。为了确定学员在参加该项目后从事农村医疗保健职业的可能性,我们进行了单元前和单元后调查,评估了他们对以下领域的兴趣:医疗保健职业、中学后教育、在农村工作和寻找盟友。在完成课程后,209名学员被邀请完成课程评估,其中包括简短的回答问题,旨在捕捉他们对课程的总体印象。结果:在完成职业探索单元后,63名学生(在完成该单元的103名学生中)表示他们对医疗保健职业感兴趣,而之前只有37名。然而,在完成这些单元后,学生们对中学后教育和寻找盟友的态度没有改变,他们对在农村工作的看法也没有改变(尽管没有专门针对这一主题的单元)。然而,令人鼓舞的是,在进入该项目之前,大多数人已经对这些领域持积极意见。在接受我们项目评估的41名学生中,大多数人对该项目及其导师持好感;他们发现最有用的讨论主题包括职业探索、学习生活技能、学习如何为中学后教育做准备以及对中学后教育的期望。结论:这项研究表明,在线辅导可以引导农村青年的职业兴趣转向医疗保健专业,并为传授有关医疗保健专业的信息提供一种令人耳目一新的方法。尽管其纵向影响需要研究,但在参与该项目时观察到的态度变化和知识增长使这些学生走上了最终过渡到健康科学项目的正确轨道。通过近同伴指导,让农村青年具备从事医疗保健职业的知识和动力,这可能是一项独特的战略,可以增加农村学生在健康科学项目中的代表性,并最终增加农村医疗保健专业人员的数量。
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Recruiting the next generation of rural healthcare practitioners: the impact of an online mentoring program on career and educational goals in rural youth.

Introduction: There is increasing recognition that encouraging and supporting rural youth to pursue healthcare careers could be a promising strategy for addressing shortages of rural healthcare practitioners. Although rural students in health science programs often return to their home communities to practice, they continue to be underrepresented in these programs. Geographic isolation and small community sizes create barriers to entry for rural students, including a lack of educational and outreach services and a smaller pool of role models with experience in pursuing health science careers. Online mentoring has the potential to overcome these barriers by connecting rural youth with experienced role models from outside their communities; therefore, we tested whether this type of intervention could be used to increase interest in and guide rural youth towards rural healthcare careers.

Methods: From 2016 to 2020, our intervention, Rural eMentoring BC, matched 364 youth in rural British Columbia to near-peer mentors enrolled in health science programs. Through an online platform, dyads discussed career and educational options and pathways through a semistructured curriculum consisting of eight units. To determine the likelihood of mentees pursuing a career in rural health care after participating in the program, we deployed pre- and post-unit surveys that evaluated their interest in the following areas: healthcare careers, post-secondary education, working rurally, and finding allies. After completing the program, 209 mentees were invited to complete a program evaluation, which consisted of short-answer questions intended to capture their overall impressions of the program.

Results: After completing the career exploration unit, 63 students (out of the 103 who completed the unit) indicated that they were interested in healthcare careers, compared to 37 before. However, students' attitudes towards post-secondary education and finding allies did not change after completing those units, nor did their opinion of working rurally (although there was no unit dedicated to this topic). Encouragingly though, most already held positive opinions of these areas before entering the program. Of the 41 students who took our program evaluation, most viewed the program and their mentors favorably; discussion topics they found most useful included career exploration, learning life skills, and learning how to prepare for, and what to expect from, post-secondary education.

Conclusion: This study suggests that online mentoring can direct rural youths' career interests toward, and provide a refreshing approach to imparting information about, healthcare professions. Although its longitudinal impacts need to be studied, the changes in attitudes and gains in knowledge observed while participating in this program put these students on the right track for eventually transitioning to health science programs. Arming rural youth with the knowledge and motivation to pursue healthcare careers through near-peer mentorship could be a unique strategy for increasing rural student representation in health science programs, and ultimately the number of rural healthcare professionals.

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