Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2024 Apr 22;16(1):e1-e4. doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v16i1.4410.
Family physicians require leadership skills to strengthen team-based primary care services. Interviews with South African district managers confirmed the need to develop leadership skills in family physicians. The updated national programmatic learning outcomes for South African family physician training were published in 2021. They sparked the need for curriculum renewal at the University of Cape Town's Division of Family Medicine. A review of the leadership and governance module during registrar training showed that the sessions were perceived to be content heavy with insufficient opportunities for reflection. Following a series of stakeholder engagements, the module convenors co-designed a revised module that was blueprinted on the updated learning outcomes. The module incorporates a group coaching style, facilitating learning through reflection on one's experiences. The revised module was implemented in 2022. It aims to provide a transformative learning experience centred on students' perceptions of themselves as leaders, as well as professional identity formation and resilience building. This short report describes preliminary insights from the revised module's developmental phase and forms part of an ongoing iterative evaluation process.Contribution: Family physicians should lead across all their defined roles. Formal and informal learning opportunities are needed to facilitate their growth as leaders and help them to meet the health needs of communities served by an evolving health care system. This short report describes an example of a revised postgraduate module on leadership and governance, which may be of value to clinician educators and academic departments exploring innovative methods for the African region.
家庭医生需要领导技能来加强基于团队的初级保健服务。对南非地区经理的访谈证实了家庭医生需要发展领导技能。2021 年发布了南非家庭医生培训的更新国家方案学习成果。它们引发了开普敦大学家庭医学系课程更新的需求。在审查住院医师培训中的领导力和治理模块时,发现这些课程被认为内容繁重,反思机会不足。在一系列利益相关者参与之后,模块召集人共同设计了一个经过修订的模块,该模块以更新的学习成果为蓝本。该模块采用小组辅导方式,通过反思个人经验促进学习。修订后的模块于 2022 年实施。它旨在提供以学生对自己作为领导者的看法为中心的变革性学习体验,以及专业身份形成和韧性建设。本简短报告描述了修订后的模块发展阶段的初步见解,并构成正在进行的迭代评估过程的一部分。贡献:家庭医生应该在其所有定义的角色中发挥领导作用。需要正式和非正式的学习机会来促进他们的领导力发展,并帮助他们满足不断发展的医疗保健系统所服务社区的健康需求。本简短报告介绍了领导力和治理研究生模块修订版的一个示例,这可能对探索非洲地区创新方法的临床医生教育者和学术部门具有价值。