Practice based small group learning during a pandemic: an evaluation from Defence Primary Healthcare.

Autor: Willman AS; Defence Primary Healthcare, Queen Elizabeth Memorial Health Centre, Tidworth, UK.; Academic Department of Military General Practice, Royal College of Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK., Holland T; Academic Department of Military General Practice, Royal College of Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK., Blackadder-Weinstein J; Academic Department of Military General Practice, Royal College of Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Education for primary care : an official publication of the Association of Course Organisers, National Association of GP Tutors, World Organisation of Family Doctors [Educ Prim Care] 2022 Nov; Vol. 33 (6), pp. 331-336. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 30.
DOI: 10.1080/14739879.2022.2115406
Abstrakt: The educational benefits of Practice-Based Small Group Learning (PBSGL) are well known. The Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom employs a salaried healthcare workforce across the globe with staff frequently moving. Given the success of PBSGL in Canada and Scotland, PBSGL was introduced as a large pilot to assess it as a continuous professional development (CPD) resource. A survey gathering quantitative and qualitative was distributed to the pilot population after using PBSGL for 12 months. This showed the favoured types of CPD were PBSGL and taught CPD update courses. Themes identified from free-text comments were: developing professional educational networks during Covid; evolving themes of CPD; applying learning to practice; practical aspects of delivering CPD to Defence promoting a positive learning environment; human interaction is therapeutic. These were similar to educational and non-educational benefits found in previous evaluations, but with the added benefit of providing a professional educational network during the COVID pandemic. Benefits were preserved when the sessions were run remotely using video-conferencing, although some of the human interaction was lost. As CPD, it was highly valued. For Defence, who need to consider the CPD requirements of their workforce, provision of PBSGL alongside taught CPD updates may satisfy the learning needs of the majority of the workforce.
Databáze: MEDLINE