Learning to teach with patients and caregivers: a focused ethnography.
BMC Med Educ
; 24(1): 224, 2024 Mar 03.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Little is known about what happens when patients and caregivers are involved in an academic setting as co-teachers and how healthcare professionals approach a new model of partnership-based teaching. This study aimed to explore the learning and behavioural patterns of a group of healthcare professionals who were learning to teach with patients and caregivers as co-teachers in a post-graduate course.METHODS:
A focused ethnographic study involving 11 health professionals was conducted. Data were collected through participatory observation during the course, individual semi-structured interviews, and a follow-up focus group. Taxonomic analysis was performed.RESULTS:
Three categories were identified 'group', 'role of narration' and 'applying co-teaching with patients and caregivers '. Specifically, heterogeneity, absence of hierarchies, and balanced relationships characterised the group dynamic and promoted partnership. Narration played a key role both in learning and in healthcare professionals' relationship with patients and caregivers and promoted emotional skills and self-awareness. Project planning and lessons simulations were essential aspects of the implementation process.CONCLUSIONS:
This focused ethnography helped further understanding of the context of a specific project involving patients and caregivers as co-teachers in healthcare professional education. The development of emotional skills and self-awareness are the main learning patterns of co-teaching, and interprofessionalism and balanced relationships are the basis of the behavioural patterns. These patterns facilitated the involvement of patients and caregivers in health education.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Cuidadores
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Pessoal de Educação
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMC Med Educ
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BMC med. educ
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BMC medical education
Assunto da revista:
EDUCACAO
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália