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Rethinking Context in Continuing Professional Development: From Identifying Barriers to Understanding Social Dynamics.
Wong, René; Kitto, Simon.
Afiliação
  • Wong R; Dr. Wong: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Kitto: Professor, Department of Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
J Contin Educ Health Prof ; 43(4S): S9-S17, 2023.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38054488
ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION:

For continuing professional development (CPD) to reach its potential to improve outcomes requires an understanding of the role of context and the influencing conditions that enable interventions to succeed. We argue that the heuristic use of frameworks to design and implement interventions tends to conceptualize context as defined lists of barriers, which may obscure consideration of how different contextual factors interact with and intersect with each other.

METHODS:

We suggest a framework approach that would benefit from postmodernist theory that explores how ideologies, meanings, and social structures in health care settings shape social practices. As an illustrative example, we conducted a Foucauldian discourse analysis of diabetes care to make visible how the social, historical, and political conditions in which clinicians experience, practice, and shape possibilities for behavior change.

RESULTS:

The discursive construction of continuing education as a knowledge translation mechanism assumes and is contingent on family physicians to implement guidelines. However, they enact other discursively constituted roles that may run in opposition. This paradoxical position creates a tension that must be navigated by family physicians, who may perceive it possible to provide good care without necessarily implementing guidelines.

DISCUSSION:

We suggest marrying "framework" thinking with postmodernist theory that explores how ideologies, meanings, and social structures shape practice behavior change. Such a proposed reconceptualization of context in the design of continuing professional development interventions could provide a more robust and nuanced understanding of how the dynamic relationships and interactions between clinicians, patients, and their work environments shape educational effectiveness.
Assuntos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Educação Continuada / Dinâmica de Grupo Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: J Contin Educ Health Prof Assunto da revista: EDUCACAO / SERVICOS DE SAUDE Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Canadá

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Educação Continuada / Dinâmica de Grupo Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: J Contin Educ Health Prof Assunto da revista: EDUCACAO / SERVICOS DE SAUDE Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Canadá