What's in a name? Tensions between formal and informal communities of practice among regional subspecialty cancer surgeons
| Autor: | Steven Gallinger, Rachel E. Grant, Jennifer Peller, Simon Kitto, Carol-Anne Moulton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male 020205 medical informatics Attitude of Health Personnel Situated learning Organizational culture 02 engineering and technology Subspecialty Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Community of practice Health care 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Community Health Services Staff Development Qualitative Research Oncologists Ontario Surgeons business.industry Professional development General Medicine Public relations Middle Aged Organisation climate Quality Improvement Female Clinical Competence business Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice. 23(1) |
| ISSN: | 1573-1677 |
| Popis: | In 2007 the Cancer Care Ontario Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic (HPB) Community of Practice was formed during the wake of provincial regionalization of HPB services in Ontario, Canada. Despite being conceptualized within the literature as an educational intervention, communities of practice (CoP) are increasingly being adopted in healthcare as quality improvement initiatives. A qualitative case study approach using in-depth interviews and document analysis was employed to gain insight into the perceptions and attitudes of the HPB surgeons in the CoP. This study demonstrates how an engineered formal or idealized structure of a CoP was created in tension with the natural CoPs that HPB surgeons identified with during and after their training. This tension contributed to the inactive and/or marginal participation by some of the surgeons in the CoP. The findings of this study represent a cautionary tale for such future engineering attempts in two distinct ways: (1) a CoP in surgery cannot simply be created by regulatory agencies, rather they need to be supported in a way to evolve naturally, and (2) when the concept of CoPs is co-opted by governing bodies, it does not necessarily capture the power and potential of situated learning. To ensure CoP sustainability and effectiveness, we suggest that both core and peripheral members need to be more directly involved at the inception of the COP in terms of design, organization, implementation and ongoing management. |
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