{"title":"An activity theory perspective on interprofessional teamwork in long-term care.","authors":"Nicolas Fernandez, Nicolas Gulino","doi":"10.36834/cmej.77484","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.77484","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Teamwork in healthcare is shaped by reciprocal interactions among individual team members and their clinical context. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) provides a framework to study teamwork from a developmental perspective. We observed interactions between members of an Interprofessional Healthcare Team (IHT) to identify practical guidelines for educators.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Three Health Care Providers (HCPs) with more than 22-years' experience in a semi-urban LTC facility participated. We video-recorded two regular IHT meetings and selected excerpts for subsequent video-recall interviews. The excerpts were shown and discussed first with each team member, then with members in pairs and finally with all members reunited. We prompted participants to explain what was happening on the videos. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using CHAT's unit of analysis based on Activity Systems.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>We observed contradictions within the Activity Systems involving diverging views on outcomes of enhancing or maintaining quality of life; using non-traditional tools and spaces to sustain resident mobility; safeguarding community and patient safety despite time constraints and job titles, and unease for being paid to perform unconventional interventions. The contradictions have been grouped into three themes reflecting the Activity Systems: 1) enhancing versus maintaining quality of life; 2) improvising to achieve care goals; and 3) role fluidity.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Our findings show that practical goal-oriented and contextual adaptations rely heavily on improvisation and dialogue. Educating HCPs for interprofessional teamwork should focus on developing situational awareness to foster continuous adaptation of disciplinary interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 4","pages":"28-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11415730/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142302370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricia Blanchette, Marie-Eve Poitras, Audrey-Ann Lefebvre, Christina St-Onge
{"title":"Making judgments based on reported observations of trainee performance: a scoping review in Health Professions Education.","authors":"Patricia Blanchette, Marie-Eve Poitras, Audrey-Ann Lefebvre, Christina St-Onge","doi":"10.36834/cmej.75522","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.75522","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Educators now use reported observations when assessing trainees' performance. Unfortunately, they have little information about how to design and implement assessments based on reported observations.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The purpose of this scoping review was to map the literature on the use of reported observations in judging health professions education (HPE) trainees' performances.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) method was used with four databases (sources: ERIC, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO). Eligibility criteria for articles were: documents in English or French, including primary data, and initial or professional training; (2) training in an HPE program; (3) workplace-based assessment; and (4) assessment based on reported observations. The inclusion/exclusion, and data extraction steps were performed (agreement rate > 90%). We developed a data extraction grid to chart the data. Descriptive analyses were used to summarize quantitative data, and the authors conducted thematic analysis for qualitative data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Based on 36 papers and 13 consultations, the team identified six steps characterizing trainee performance assessment based on reported observations in HPE: (1) making first contact, (2) observing and documenting the trainee performance, (3) collecting and completing assessment data, (4) aggregating assessment data, (5) inferring the level of competence, and (6) documenting and communicating the decision to the stakeholders.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The design and implementation of assessment based on reported observations is a first step towards a quality implementation by guiding educators and administrators responsible for graduating competent professionals. Future research might focus on understanding the context beyond assessor cognition to ensure the quality of meta-assessors' decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 4","pages":"63-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11415737/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142302377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annie Carrier, Alexandra Éthier, Michaël Beaudoin, Anne Hudon, Denis Bédard, Emmanuelle Jasmin, Étienne Lavoie-Trudeau, France Verville
{"title":"[Agency: occupational therapists' perspectives on their sense of competence and their skills following training].","authors":"Annie Carrier, Alexandra Éthier, Michaël Beaudoin, Anne Hudon, Denis Bédard, Emmanuelle Jasmin, Étienne Lavoie-Trudeau, France Verville","doi":"10.36834/cmej.78346","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.78346","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>To tackle the systemic injustices experienced by people in vulnerable situations, occupational therapists' agency, i.e. their power to act, is necessary. However, occupational therapists feel ill-equipped to exercise this power, and would like to develop their skills. The general aim of this research was therefore to document occupational therapists' perception of their skills before and after agency training.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used a mixed sequential explanatory design, comprising a quantitative component consisting of a pre- and post-training self-administered questionnaire and a descriptive qualitative component with group interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 103 occupational therapists completed the training between January 19 and October 19, 2019. Their sense of competence improved, especially for those with no prior training in agency. The skills perceived as having developed the most corresponded to the skills deemed a priority for development, namely effective communication, intentional collaboration, and observation and analysis. On the other hand, occupational therapists emphasized that they had not mastered the exercise of these skills in a real-life context.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although continuing education is one way of improving the skills needed to exercise agency, questions remain as to the optimal modalities for ensuring their full and lasting development.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 4","pages":"15-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11415748/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142302367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Janeve Desy, Adrian Harvey, Sarah Weeks, Kevin D Busche, Kerri Martin, Michael Paget, Christopher Naugler, Kevin McLaughlin
{"title":"The impact of systematically repairing multiple choice questions with low discrimination on assessment reliability: an interrupted time series analysis.","authors":"Janeve Desy, Adrian Harvey, Sarah Weeks, Kevin D Busche, Kerri Martin, Michael Paget, Christopher Naugler, Kevin McLaughlin","doi":"10.36834/cmej.77596","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.77596","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At our centre, we introduced a continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiative during academic year 2018-19 targeting for repair multiple choice question (MCQ) items with discrimination index (<i>D</i>) < 0.1. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of this initiative on reliability/internal consistency of our assessments. Our participants were medical students during academic years 2015-16 to 2020-21 and our data were summative MCQ assessments during this time. Since the goal was to systematically review and improve summative assessments in our undergraduate program on an ongoing basis, we used interrupted time series analysis to assess the impact on reliability. Between 2015-16 and 2017-18 there was a significant negative trend in the mean alpha coefficient for MCQ exams (regression coefficient -0.027 [-0.008, -0.047], <i>p</i> = 0.024). In the academic year following the introduction of our initiative (2018-19) there was a significant increase in the mean alpha coefficient (regression coefficient 0.113 [0.063, 0.163], <i>p</i> = 0.010) which was then followed by a significant positive post-intervention trend (regression coefficient 0.056 [0.037, 0.075], <i>p</i> = 0.006). In conclusion, our CQI intervention resulted in an immediate and progressive improvement reliability of our MCQ assessments.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 3","pages":"52-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11302750/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marco Zaccagnini, Erin Cameron, Roger Strasser, Saleem Razack, Tim Dubé
{"title":"Educational approaches for social accountability in health professions training: a scoping review protocol.","authors":"Marco Zaccagnini, Erin Cameron, Roger Strasser, Saleem Razack, Tim Dubé","doi":"10.36834/cmej.78911","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.78911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 3","pages":"129-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11302764/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large language models in medical education: new tools for experimentation and discovery.","authors":"Akshay Rajaram","doi":"10.36834/cmej.78879","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.78879","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 3","pages":"123-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11302760/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Walk with a Future Doc</i> program allows Canadian medical students to promote physical activity and health education in local communities.","authors":"Taylor M Wilson, Olga Theou, Myles W O'Brien","doi":"10.36834/cmej.77055","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.77055","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical student-led walk and talk programs, such as <i>Walk with a Future Doc (WWAFD)</i>, provide a means for the medical community and community at-large to interact in a non-clinical setting. This environment can increase attendance accountability, enhance patient-provider relationships, and allow medical professionals to be leading examples of healthy, active living. We demonstrate the positive interest for this program, rationale of participants for joining, and the feasibility of its setup. As one of the only <i>WWAFD</i> programs in Canada, we encourage other medical schools to implement this program to promote continuity of hands-on, community-engaged learning amongst their students.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 3","pages":"116-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11302763/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Candelaria Aristizabal Londono, Chun Huang, Garson Chan
{"title":"Harnessing Artificial Intelligence's potential in undergraduate medical education: an analysis of application and implication.","authors":"Candelaria Aristizabal Londono, Chun Huang, Garson Chan","doi":"10.36834/cmej.78483","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.78483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 3","pages":"119-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11302769/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reem El Sherif, Ian Shrier, Pierre Paul-Tellier, Charo Rodriguez
{"title":"What do we know about Objective Structured Clinical Examination in Sport and Exercise Medicine? A scoping review.","authors":"Reem El Sherif, Ian Shrier, Pierre Paul-Tellier, Charo Rodriguez","doi":"10.36834/cmej.77841","DOIUrl":"10.36834/cmej.77841","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Despite the importance of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in Sport and Exercise Medicine, the literature on the topic is fragmented and has been poorly developed. The goal of this review was to map current knowledge about how the OSCE is used in Sport and Exercise Medicine, and to identify knowledge gaps for future research.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The authors conducted a scoping review. They searched PubMed and Scopus for articles using key terms related to 'OSCE' and 'sport medicine' with no limit on search start date and up to July 2022. Retrieved records were imported, abstracts were screened, and full-text articles were reviewed. A forward and backward citation tracking was conducted. Data was extracted and a qualitative meta-summary of the studies was conducted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 469 records were screened, and 22 studies were included. The objectives of the studies included using OSCEs to assess knowledge/skills after a training program (<i>n</i> = 11), to assess an intervention (<i>n</i> = 8), and to assess and improve the OSCE itself (<i>n</i> = 3). Thirteen studies reported validity and/or reliability of the OSCE.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Despite the widespread use of OSCEs in the examination of Sport and Exercise Medicine trainees, only a handful of scholarly works have been published. More research is needed to support the use of OSCE in Sport and Exercise Medicine for its initial purpose. We highlight avenues for future research such as assessing the need for a deeper exploration of the relationship between candidate characteristics and OSCE scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":72503,"journal":{"name":"Canadian medical education journal","volume":"15 3","pages":"57-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11302755/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}