Carole Orchard, Gillian King, Panagiota Tryphonopoulos, Eunice Gorman, Sibylle Ugirase, Dean Lising, Kevin Fung
{"title":"Interprofessional Team Conflict Resolution: A Critical Literature Review.","authors":"Carole Orchard, Gillian King, Panagiota Tryphonopoulos, Eunice Gorman, Sibylle Ugirase, Dean Lising, Kevin Fung","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000524","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000524","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Although concern related to conflicts within health care teams has been discussed in the literature, most studies have focused on individuals' personal conflict management style identification or on managers resolving workplace conflicts between parties. The purpose of this review was to identify significant components in the field of conflict with particular attention to conceptual findings that may be integrated into understanding interprofessional health care team conflict and its resolution.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A critical review of the conflict literature across many fields was undertaken using the method identified by Grant and Booth, incorporating literature-search, appraisal, synthesis, and analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This critical review explored existing models and schools of thought to provide an overview of how conflict is conceptualized, its focus on interpersonal and workplace issues, team conflict application and training in team conflict resolution, and finally a summary of this review's contribution to interprofessional health care team conflict and its resolution.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Team conflict is comprised of three forms-relationship, task, and process. When team building occurs that incorporates training in the use of an adapted constructive controversy approach, there is a greater opportunity to enhance the quality of a cooperative approach to patients' care planning. Training in team conflict resolution is needed as a key ingredient to ensure all team members can enhance the effectiveness and quality of interprofessional client-centered collaborative practice. This benefits not only the health providers in the team, but also their clients/patients who are recipients of their shared teamwork.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"203-210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10203443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership, Teamwork, and the Ontological Choreography of CPD.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000562","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000562","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"151-152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141917969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health Professions Education Strategies for Enhancing Capacity for Task-Shifting and Task-Sharing Implementation in Africa: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Sunny C Okoroafor, Christmal Dela Christmals","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000517","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>To compensate for the shortage of health workers and effectively use the available health workforce to provide access to health services at various levels of the health system, several countries are implementing task-shifting and task-sharing (TSTS). This scoping review was conducted to synthesize evidence on health professions education (HPE) strategies applied to enhance capacities for TSTS implementation in Africa.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This scoping review was conducted using the enhanced Arksey and O'Malley's framework for scoping reviews. The sources of evidence included CINAHL, PubMed, and Scopus.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirty-eight studies conducted in 23 countries provided insights on the strategies implemented in various health services contexts including general health, cancer screenings, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, HIV/AIDS, emergency care, hypertension, tuberculosis, eye care, diabetes, mental health, and medicines. The HPE strategies applied were in-service training, onsite clinical supervision and mentoring, periodic supportive supervision, provision of job aides, and preservice education.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Scaling up HPE based on the evidence from this study will contribute immensely to enhancing the capacity of health workers in contexts where TSTS are being implemented or planned to provide quality health services based on the population's health needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"194-202"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10136848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Assumptions in Online and Blended Continuing Professional Development: Finding Our Way Forward Together.","authors":"Miya E Bernson-Leung, Heather MacNeill","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000528","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000528","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Continuing professional development (CPD) providers and faculty face a practice gap between our knowledge of effective practices in CPD and our implementation of them, particularly in online environments. Developmental psychologists Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey have attributed such knowledge-implementation gaps to an \"Immunity to Change\" rooted in tacit \"Big Assumptions.\" These Big Assumptions produce fears or worries, reveal competing commitments, and result in actions or inactions that hinder intended change. We sought to understand the barriers to change in online and blended CPD, to support CPD leaders in pursuing their goals for optimal use of technology in CPD. This inquiry arose from the 13th National Continuing Professional Development Accreditation Conference of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians of Canada, a virtual conference held in October 2022. After introducing the Immunity to Change framework and best practices in online and blended learning, we invited audience members to list Big Assumptions in CPD through chat and polling software. These responses were analyzed and grouped into five interrelated Big Assumptions that suggest a number of key barriers to optimal implementation of online CPD. We present data that counter each Big Assumption along with practical approaches to facilitate desired change for CPD.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"211-216"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41156243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Camille R Petri, Christine P Beltran, Kristin Russell, Jacqueline FitzGerald, Amy M Sullivan, Asha M Anandaiah
{"title":"\"A Lot to Offer\": Nurses as Educators for Medical Residents in an Academic Medical Center Intensive Care Unit.","authors":"Camille R Petri, Christine P Beltran, Kristin Russell, Jacqueline FitzGerald, Amy M Sullivan, Asha M Anandaiah","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000513","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000513","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The role of fully trained interprofessional clinicians in educating residents has not been rigorously explored. The intensive care unit (ICU), where multiprofessional teamwork is essential to patient care, represents an ideal training environment in which to study this role. This study aimed to describe the practices, perceptions, and attitudes of ICU nurses regarding teaching medical residents and to identify potential targets to facilitate nurse teaching.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a concurrent mixed-methods approach, we administered surveys and focus groups to ICU nurses from September to November 2019 at a single, urban, tertiary, academic medical center. Survey data were analyzed with descriptive and comparative statistics. Focus group data were analyzed using the Framework method of content analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of nurses surveyed, 75 of 96 (78%) responded. Nurses generally held positive attitudes about teaching residents, describing it as both important (52%, 36/69) and enjoyable (64%, 44/69). Nurses reported confidence in both clinical knowledge base (80%, 55/69) and teaching skills (71%, 49/69), but identified time, uncertainty about teaching topics, and trainee receptiveness as potential barriers. Ten nurses participated in focus groups. Qualitative analysis revealed three major themes: nurse-specific factors that impact teaching, the teaching environment, and facilitators of teaching.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>ICU nurses carry positive attitudes about teaching residents, particularly when facilitated by the attending, but this enthusiasm can be attenuated by the learning environment, unknown learner needs, and trainee attitudes. Identified facilitators of nurse teaching, including resident presence at the bedside and structured opportunities for teaching, represent potential targets for interventions to promote interprofessional teaching.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"180-186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9669211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions and Proficiencies of Primary Care Physicians Treating Metabolic Syndrome: A Descriptive Survey-Based Study.","authors":"Nicholas Laszlo","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000506","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000506","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a chronic condition that has been implicated in adverse public health outcomes worldwide, including in the United States. It has been linked to diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Little is known about the perceptions and practices of primary care physicians (PCPs) regarding MetS. The only studies examining this research topic were conducted outside the United States. The aim of this study was to evaluate the MetS knowledge, proficiency, training, and practices of American PCPs, for the purpose of informing future physician education initiatives directed at MetS.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a descriptive correlational design using a Likert-scale questionnaire. The survey was distributed to more than 4000 PCPs. The first 100 completed surveys were evaluated using descriptive statistical analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Cumulative survey results revealed that most PCPs perceived themselves as knowledgeable on MetS, but only a minority demonstrated an understanding of leading-edge MetS protocols. Ninety-seven percent agreed that MetS is a condition of concern, but only 22% reported possessing sufficient time and resources to fully address MetS. Only half indicated that they had received training in MetS.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Overall results suggested that a lack of time, training, and resources may pose the greatest obstacles to optimal MetS care. Future studies should aim to identify the specific reasons why these barriers exist.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"187-193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10043424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mirelle Hanskamp-Sebregts, Petra J van Gurp, Jozé Braspenning
{"title":"Design and Validation of a Questionnaire to Measure Interprofessional Collaborative Practice for Auditing Integrated Hospital Care: Empirical Research.","authors":"Mirelle Hanskamp-Sebregts, Petra J van Gurp, Jozé Braspenning","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000544","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000544","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Interprofessional teamwork is the key issue of delivering integrated hospital care; however, measuring interprofessional collaboration for auditing is fragmented. In this study, a questionnaire to measure InterProfessional collaborative Practice for Integrated Hospital care (IPPIH) has been developed and validated.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A four-step iterative process was conducted: (1) literature search to find suitable questionnaires; (2) semistructured stakeholder interviews (individual and in focus groups) to discuss the topics and questions (face validity), (3) pretesting the prototype of the questionnaire in two different integrated care pathways for feasibility, usability, and internal consistency, and (4) testing (content and construct validity and responsiveness) of the revised questionnaire in eight integrated care pathways; the validation and responsiveness was tested by means of exploratory factor analysis, calculation of Cronbach alpha, item analysis, and linear mixed model analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Based on six questionnaires and the opinion of direct stakeholders, the questionnaire IPPIH comprised 27 items. Five different domains could be distinguished: own skills, culture, coordination and collaboration, practical support, and appreciation with the Cronbach alpha varied from 0.91 to 0.48. The self-reported intensity of the collaboration within a specific care pathway significantly influenced the outcome ( P = .000).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The product is a questionnaire, IPPIH, which can measure the degree of interprofessional collaborative practice in integrated hospital care pathways. The IPPIH was initially developed for quality assurance. However, the IPPIH also seems to be suitable as a self-assessment tool for directors to monitor and improve the interprofessional collaboration and the quality of their integrated care pathway.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"171-179"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11338029/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138446884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Morag Paton, Victor Do, Tharshini Jeyakumar, Jerry M Maniate, Walter Tavares, Suzan Schneeweiss, David Wiljer
{"title":"Elements and Definitions of Continuing Professional Development Leadership: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Morag Paton, Victor Do, Tharshini Jeyakumar, Jerry M Maniate, Walter Tavares, Suzan Schneeweiss, David Wiljer","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000520","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000520","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Leaders are being asked to transform the way that continuing professional development (CPD) is delivered to focus on better, safer, and higher quality care. However, there is scarce literature on CPD leadership. We set out to study what CPD leadership means and describe the competencies required for CPD leadership.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A scoping review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses extension guidelines for scoping reviews guidelines was conducted. With librarian support, four databases were searched for publications related to leadership, medical education, and CPD. Publications were screened by two reviewers and three reviewers extracted data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 3886 publications, 46 were eligible for a full-text review and 13 met the final inclusion criteria. There was no agreed upon definition of CPD leadership and variable models and approaches to leadership in the literature. Contextual issues shaping CPD (eg, funding, training, and information technology) are evolving. We identified several attitudes and behaviors (eg, strategic thinking), skills (eg, collaboration), and knowledge (eg, organizational awareness) important to CPD leadership, but no established set of unique competencies.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These results offer the CPD community a foundation on which competencies, models, and training programs can build. This work suggests the need to build consensus on what CPD leadership means, what CPD leaders do, and what they will need to create and sustain change. We suggest the adaptation of existing leadership frameworks to a CPD context to better guide leadership and leadership development programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"153-161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9690200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maura J Wolken, Suzanne Larson, Erin C Raney, Elizabeth K Pogge, Titilola M Afolabi, Tara Storjohann, Kathleen A Fairman, Lindsay E Davis
{"title":"Finding our Voice: Evaluation of Goal Setting Using the Habits of Preceptors Rubric in Terms of Focus, \"SMARTness,\" and Impact.","authors":"Maura J Wolken, Suzanne Larson, Erin C Raney, Elizabeth K Pogge, Titilola M Afolabi, Tara Storjohann, Kathleen A Fairman, Lindsay E Davis","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000540","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000540","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Effective leadership propels teams from effectiveness to greatness and is accomplished when everyone achieves and contributes their full potential, or \"voice.\" The Clinician Educators Program Teaching and Learning Curriculum fosters preceptor development using the Habits of Preceptors Rubric (HOP-R) to guide participants in finding their precepting \"voice.\" After the HOP-R self-assessment, participants select a habit of focus (HOF) and craft a SMART (specific/measurable/achievable/relevant/time-bound) goal. This report describes a pilot rubric, SMART-EP (emotional intelligence(EI)/professionalism), exploring goal \"SMARTness\" alongside change (impact) in participants' perceived precepting capabilities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>HOP-R self-ratings (2018-2020) and HOF/SMART goals (2019-2020) were retrospectively reviewed by two raters. Perceived preceptor capabilities were measured by analyzing the change in self-assessed habit level ratings between the first/fourth-quarter surveys. SMART goals were categorized by HOF and inclusion of SMART-EP components. Participants were guided in the inclusion of SMART, but not -EP, components.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In aggregate, 120 participants completed HOP-R surveys (2018-2020). Within-subject changes across all 11 habits were significant ( P < .001). For the SMART-EP rubric analysis (2019-2020), 71 participants had an average \"SMARTness\" score of 3.92 (of 5) with corresponding interrater reliability of 0.91. Goals included 2.77 (of 4) EI traits and 1.72 (of 3) professionalism components.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The SMART-EP rubric provided insights into preceptor development opportunities among participants. Beyond SMART components, participants often included elements of EI and professionalism. Ratings confirm and support the consistency of the HOP-R as a tool to assess precepting habits.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"162-170"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71488313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irvin Ong, Michael Joseph Dino, Caroline Marian Enriquez, Trisha Joy Gotinga, Corazon Esluzar, Sharon Cajayon, Arnel Buencamino, Fraulein Pimentel-Tormon, Angelita Rodriguez, Alicia Tablizo
{"title":"CPD Success With Technagogy in Health Professions: Determinants and Merits.","authors":"Irvin Ong, Michael Joseph Dino, Caroline Marian Enriquez, Trisha Joy Gotinga, Corazon Esluzar, Sharon Cajayon, Arnel Buencamino, Fraulein Pimentel-Tormon, Angelita Rodriguez, Alicia Tablizo","doi":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000559","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CEH.0000000000000559","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Continuing professional development (CPD) has become a common strategy to address the gaps in knowledge and competencies during the pandemic. Given the drastic changes in the learning environment, this study explored \"technagogy\" or teaching with technology in CPD in the health professions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A mixed-methods study was used to ascertain the determinants and merits of CPD success from the participants' perspectives ( n = 237). The quantitative data underwent structural equation modeling using partial least squares. We also thematically analyzed the qualitative responses and synthesized concurrent findings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The structural model accounted for a 64% variance in the CPD success. Its significant direct predictors ( P < .05) were instructional, curriculum, and nurturant effects. From the participants' experiences, we generated four themes as the merits of CPD: learning, teaching, knowledge, and technology scholarships. Finally, we constructed a synthesized model, the CPD Determinants and Intrinsic Assets in Learning, which can offer modest guidance in navigating CPD with technagogy.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The study findings emphasize the convergence and divergence points as considerations in teaching and learning with technology. It also offers valuable insights into relevant implications of technagogy in CPD, including its theory, practice, policy, and research.</p>","PeriodicalId":50218,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions","volume":" ","pages":"e6-e13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}