虚拟媒体为安大略省南部医疗保健学习者提供跨专业教育的效果：成功之处、不足之处及在农村地区的潜在适用性
The Efficacy of Virtual Media to Deliver Interprofessional Education to Healthcare Learners in Southern Ontario: Successes, Shortcomings, and Potential Applicability to Rural Settings.
作者信息
Brawdy Molly, Dong Cecilia S, Abbas Ahmed, Mantulak Andrew, Bownes Natalie, Hendricks Gabrielle, Christian Lisa W
机构信息
School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Canada.
出版信息
Med Sci Educ. 2024 Dec 6;35(2):767-775. doi: 10.1007/s40670-024-02231-5. eCollection 2025 Apr.
BACKGROUND
Interprofessional education (IPE) occurs when learners from multiple disciplines collaborate to learn with, and from, each other. The goal of IPE is to encourage learners to seek interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in future practice, consequently improving patient health outcomes. However, implementing IPE within existing curricula is challenging due to constraints based on location and timing. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether IPE could be delivered effectively through a virtual learning platform.
METHODS
Learners from 12 different health professions across three universities were invited to participate in a virtual IPE workshop. Following the workshop, learners' attitudes were measured using an online survey. Areas such as learning outcome and effectiveness of the virtual platform were assessed using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Average responses were calculated from response frequencies. Three open-ended items were analyzed using content analysis for themes and reported as response frequencies.
RESULTS
A total of 1051/1345 (78%) surveys were completed. Overall, learners indicated improved understanding of their own and others' roles plus various scopes of practice and increased confidence in communication with learners from other health professions. Learners also found IPE Day to be a meaningful learning experience and provided constructive feedback for future iterations of the event.
CONCLUSION
Healthcare learners were favorable toward the virtual delivery of IPC educational events. These findings therefore support the deliverance of future IPE activities between rural and urban healthcare learners and may demonstrate an avenue to bridge urban-rural healthcare gaps by supporting interprofessional collaboration across geographies.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-024-02231-5.
背景
跨专业教育（IPE）是指来自多个学科的学习者相互协作、相互学习。IPE的目标是鼓励学习者在未来的实践中寻求跨专业协作（IPC），从而改善患者的健康结局。然而，由于地点和时间的限制，在现有课程中实施IPE具有挑战性。本研究的目的是调查是否可以通过虚拟学习平台有效地开展IPE。
方法
邀请来自三所大学的12个不同健康专业的学习者参加虚拟IPE工作坊。工作坊结束后，通过在线调查测量学习者的态度。使用从强烈同意到强烈不同意的5点李克特量表评估虚拟平台的学习成果和有效性等方面。根据回答频率计算平均回复。对三个开放式问题进行内容分析以找出主题，并以回答频率报告。
结果
共完成了1051/1345（78%）份调查问卷。总体而言，学习者表示对自己和他人的角色以及各种实践范围有了更好的理解，并且与其他健康专业的学习者沟通的信心增强。学习者还发现IPE日是一次有意义的学习经历，并为该活动的未来迭代提供了建设性的反馈。
结论
医疗保健学习者对虚拟形式的IPC教育活动持积极态度。因此，这些发现支持未来在城乡医疗保健学习者之间开展IPE活动，并且可能通过支持跨地区的跨专业协作来展示弥合城乡医疗保健差距的途径。
补充信息
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s40670-024-02231-5获取的补充材料。
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