Education for Health

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BACKGROUND: Delivering research skills training to health professionals through short, applied sessions outside a formal higher education program, can help fill gaps in training and build research capacity in clinical settings. This has been the endeavor of some of the Applied Research Collaborations funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research in England since 2014. How to evaluate this type of training in terms of the wider impact it may have, has not featured heavily in the literature and methods have largely borrowed from more generic approaches to training evaluation which can over-simplify outcomes and ignore longer-term impacts...

BACKGROUND: Underrepresented minorities in medicine (URMM) may face financial and social limitations when applying to medical schools. The computer-based assessment for sampling personal characteristics (CASPER) test is used by many medical schools to assess the nonacademic competencies of applicants. Performance on CASPER can be enhanced by coaching and mentorship, which URMMs often lack, for affordability reasons, when applying to medical schools. METHODS: The CASPER Preparation Program (CPP) is a free, online, 4-week program to help URMM prepare for the CASPER test...

While social accountability (SA) is regarded as an obligation or mandate for medical school administration, it runs the danger of becoming a bureaucratic checkbox. Compassion which leads to social responsiveness (SR), in contrast, is often recognized as an individual characteristic, detached from the public domain. The two, however, complement each other in practice. Institutions must be truly socially accountable, which is possible if there is spontaneous SR to the needs, and is fueled by compassion. Compassion in this article is defined as a "feeling for other people's sufferings, and the desire to act to relieve the suffering...

BACKGROUND: This article focuses on a growing, global recognition of the importance of the field of interprofessional education for person-centered collaborative practice (IPECP) expressed through high-level policy and accreditation decisions/actions taking place in 5 countries. Policy decisions are used to motivate strategies related to IPECP that align with national health plans, and workforce issues. METHODS: Using a collective of representative stories from around the globe, a grouping of case studies were developed to illustrate different approaches and challenges to IPECP implementation...

BACKGROUND: Despite a growing drive to improve diversity in medical schools, those from state schools and less-advantaged sociodemographic backgrounds remain underrepresented. We explore applicants' approaches to preparing for medical school selection, considering the complexity of sociodemographic disadvantage in this highly competitive process. METHODS: Narrative interviews were undertaken with applicants to a United Kingdom medical school, exploring experiences of preparation for selection (n = 23)...

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Nutrition plays a major role in the overall health, longevity, and quality of life of each person, from infancy to elderly. Education and training for most health-care providers to deliver nutrition care to patients have been inadequate and on the decline in the past several decades. This gap needs to be addressed by increasing the knowledge, confidence, and abilities of health-care professionals to deliver nutrition care and work as an interprofessional team for patients. Having a registered dietitian nutritionist as part of the interprofessional team can lead to better-coordinated care, using nutrition at the forefront...

BACKGROUND: Local needs assessments in our institution's surgery and neurology residency programs identified barriers to effective communication, such as no shared communication framework and limited feedback on nontechnical clinical skills. Residents identified faculty-led coaching as a desired educational intervention to improve communication skills. Three university departments (Surgery, Neurology, and Pediatrics) and health-care system leaders collaborated closely to develop an innovative communication coaching initiative generalizable to other residency programs...

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BACKGROUND: High maternal-neonatal mortality rate in the East Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, Indonesia, has raised a concern about improving quality health care and prevention. A task force team consisting of the district health office and the corresponding hospital implemented an interprofessional peer mentoring for improving maternal-neonatal health initiative involving various health professionals and community members. This study assesses the effectiveness of the interprofessional peer-mentoring program in improving health-care workers' capacity and community members' awareness of maternal-neonatal health in the primary care setting...

BACKGROUND: Health provision in South Africa requires a focus on primary health care within the public health system. Medical practitioners continue to migrate from the public health service. Given the need for human resources in primary health care, this study was conducted to explore the perceptions and experiences of newly-qualified medical practitioners (interns) about pursuing a career in primary health care in the public health sector. METHODS: This exploratory, qualitative study specifically explored the factors related to interns' perceptions about careers in primary health and child health care in the public health service in five hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)...

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