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Walter R, Alt L, Hari R, Harris M. What do medical students think are characteristics of a good ultrasound tutor? A qualitative study. BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION 2024; 24:796. [PMID: 39049004 PMCID: PMC11270876 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05789-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2024] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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PURPOSE This study was designed to elicit medical students' opinions on the characteristics of a good ultrasound tutor. The results should help educators to create an optimal teaching environment and inform tutor training. MATERIALS AND METHODS The qualitative study recruited 15 participants from a larger mixed-methods study of 64 medical students who underwent a basic course on abdominal ultrasound taught by faculty and near-peer tutors. During semi-structured interviews, they were asked which characteristics make a good ultrasound tutor. We used inductive thematic analysis to identify the most important categories. RESULTS Medical students identified teaching themes and subthemes relating to teaching skills (e.g., course structure, repetition, vocabulary, feedback, guidance of participants), tutors' attitudes (e.g., atmosphere creation, empathy) and knowledge as the crucial components of being a good ultrasound tutor. CONCLUSIONS While some of the themes that students identified are generic to medical education, others are specific to ultrasound teaching. Tutors can use our results to assess their own teaching. They should aim to address learning needs, optimise understanding, give adequate feedback, and create a non-threatening atmosphere with empathic interactions. Accounting for the ultrasound-specific setting they should possess the necessary knowledge, provide verbal guidance to their students, and distribute examination time wisely.
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Affiliation(s)
- Robin Walter
- Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland.
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- Dean's office, Medical Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Dean's office, Medical Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
- College of Medicine & Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Brouwer HJ, Barry M, Kluijtmans M, Damoiseaux RAMJ, de Groot E. Fostering the clinician as teacher: A realist review. MEDICAL EDUCATION 2024. [PMID: 39034500 DOI: 10.1111/medu.15476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Revised: 06/16/2024] [Accepted: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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BACKGROUND Clinician-teachers, physicians with educational responsibilities in either classroom or clinical setting, are assumed to add value by virtue of their dual role. The clinical responsibilities are often prioritised over the educational tasks. How and under which circumstances clinician-teachers are able to perform their educational role and create added value for different stakeholders is currently unclear. OBJECTIVES To identify for whom, how and under which circumstances educational activities executed by CTs by virtue of their dual role add value to others. SCOPE CTs activities linking the system of education and clinical practice beyond direct patient interactions and purposefully executed. METHODS A realist review was conducted. Databases were searched in two stages: a narrow conventional search, followed by a comprehensive artificial intelligence-aided search. Studies concerning clinician-teachers' dual role were included. Realist analysis was applied to identify in which contexts resource mechanisms triggered reasoning mechanisms, which led to specific outcomes for different stakeholders. RESULTS Sixty-six studies were included. In contexts where clinician-teachers' dual role was formally recognised and valued, clinician-teachers benefitted from the credibility and legitimacy bestowed on them, making the transfer of domain-specific knowledge more impactful. In contexts where sociocultural differences between both systems existed, CTs were able to mediate and adjust recommendations aligned with stakeholders' perceived relevance. Also, contexts organised to support both roles made resource mechanisms more impactful. Clinician-teachers added value to students' clinical competency and learning environment, and to educational organisations' curricular innovation. In their clinical workspace, clinician-teachers added value by enhancing colleague physicians' teaching expertise, implementing educational innovations and recruiting students for scarce specialisms. CONCLUSION Clinician-teachers add value to students, colleague physicians and the clinical and educational contexts at large. Domain-specific knowledge of both systems was important to gain credibility and achieve added value. Openness, formal recognition and allocated time for both roles in educational and clinical contexts towards the dual role are important to strengthen the impact of the dual role.
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- Hiske Joanna Brouwer
- Department of General Practice & Nursing Science, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of General Practice & Nursing Science, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Education Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of General Practice & Nursing Science, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of General Practice & Nursing Science, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Balmer DF, Rosenblatt SA, Blalock AE. Counternarratives that illuminate faculty agency: A five-year longitudinal qualitative study of physician educators in academic medicine. MEDICAL TEACHER 2024:1-8. [PMID: 38460500 DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2024.2326096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 03/11/2024]
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PURPOSE Physician educators are often expected to direct educational programs and assume roles that conform to field norms for career advancement but that may not afford meaningful work for educators. The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse the perspectives and actions taken by physician educators in response to tension between feeling compelled to direct an educational program and doing educationally meaningful work. METHODS AND MATERIALS We used data from a longitudinal study and focused on three participants who, over the course of the five-year study, offered significant insights into how physician educators act in ways that run counter to expectations for career advancement. Our narrative analysis entailed organizing data from interview transcripts into time-ordered displays, weaving data into counternarratives that were edited by participants, and using the theory of faculty agency (and its key constructs, strategic perspectives and strategic action) to thread the stories together. RESULTS In each counternarrative, the participant deliberated their sense of being a physician educator (strategic perspectives) and when expectations became untenable, they did what they needed to do to engage in meaningful work (strategic action) rather than comply with expectations for career advancement in academic medicine. For one participant, faculty agency meant leaving academic medicine; for another, it meant reducing clinical time so that unpaid time could be devoted to education; and for another, it meant opting not do direct a reputable education program. CONCLUSIONS Faculty agency is a useful theoretical lens for conceptualizing how physician educators navigate their careers in academic medicine. Counternarratives that illuminate faculty agency offer stories that describe alternate career paths and portend a different future for physician educators.
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- Dorene F Balmer
- Department of Paediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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Wang Y, Hu S, Yao J, Pan Y, Wang J, Wang H. Clinical nursing mentors' motivation, attitude, and practice for mentoring and factors associated with them. BMC Nurs 2024; 23:76. [PMID: 38287369 PMCID: PMC10826088 DOI: 10.1186/s12912-024-01757-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the motivation, attitude, and practice toward mentoring and related factors among clinical nursing mentors. METHODS This cross-sectional study included clinical nursing mentors from 30 hospitals in Zhejiang Province between August and September 2023. Demographic information, motivation, attitude, and practice were collected through a self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS A total of 495 valid questionnaires were collected, and most of the participants were 30-39 years old (68.7%). Average motivation, attitude, and practice scores were 29 [26, 32] (possible range: 8-40), 87 (82, 94) (possible range: 22-110), and 41 (38, 45) (possible range: 11-55), respectively. Correlation analyses showed that the motivation scores were positively correlated with attitude scores (r = 0.498, P < 0.001) and practice scores (r = 0.408, P = 0.001), while attitude scores were positively correlated with practice scores (r = 0.554, P < 0.001). Multivariate logistic regression showed that intermediate and senior nursing mentors (OR = 0.638, 95% CI: [0.426-0.956], P = 0.030) and different hospitals (OR = 1.627, 95% CI: [1.054-2.511], P = 0.028) were independently associated with motivation. The hospital's frequency of psychological care was a significant factor associated with nursing mentoring motivation, attitude, and practice. Participation in training (OR = 2.908, 95% CI: [1.430, 5.913], P = 0.003) and lower frequency of job evaluation in hospital ("Often": OR = 0.416, 95% CI: [0.244-0.709], P = 0.001 and "Sometimes": OR = 0.346, 95% CI: [0.184-0.650], P = 0.001) were independently associated with practice. CONCLUSION Clinical nursing mentors had adequate motivation, positive attitude, and proactive practice towards mentoring and associated factors. Clinical nursing mentorship should be enhanced by prioritizing mentor training, fostering a supportive environment with consistent psychological care, and promoting structured mentorship activities.
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- Yan Wang
- Nursing Institute, Ningbo College of Health Science, Ningbo, 315100, P.R. China.
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- Nursing Institute, Ningbo College of Health Science, Ningbo, 315100, P.R. China
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- Delivery and Labor Room, Zhejiang University Mingzhou Hospital, Ningbo, 315100, P.R. China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Ningbo No.2 Hospital, Ningbo, 315000, P.R. China
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- Department of Obstetrics, Affiliated Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, P.R. China
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- Nursing department, Zhejiang University Mingzhou Hospital, Ningbo, 315100, P.R. China
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Tcharmtchi MH, Kumar S, Rama J, Rissmiller B, Castro D, Thammasitboon S. Job characteristics that enrich clinician-educators' career: a theory-informed exploratory survey. MEDICAL EDUCATION ONLINE 2023; 28:2158528. [PMID: 36547403 PMCID: PMC9793935 DOI: 10.1080/10872981.2022.2158528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Clinician educators (CEs) play a vital role in helping academic institutions achieve the missions of patient care, education and research. The driving forces that motivate pediatric CEs in professional growth and personal satisfaction remain unexplored. An exploratory survey research to investigate the job characteristics and factors that motivate CEs to pursue professional growth with personal satisfaction. Using the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) as a framework, we developed a 22-item survey comprised of the JCM derived Job Diagnostic Survey, Global Job Satisfaction scales and demographics. We collected data from January 2020 to March 2020 from self-identified pediatric CEs (with and without educational leadership roles) through a survey recruitment service. Given no data on total number of CEs in the survey pool, response rate was unknown. Job characteristics in the core job dimensions of meaningfulness, autonomy, and performance feedback, as well as, the derived Motivating Potential Score (MPS), were analyzed using descriptive statistics and regression models. From 201 respondents, including 55 education leaders, >70% were satisfied with patient care, teaching, and mentoring while <40% were satisfied with administrative and scholarly activities. Meaningfulness (in some areas), autonomy (patient care/teaching), and internal feedback (all areas) had significant effects on job satisfaction. In regression analysis, skill variety, feedback, and years of experience were associated with higher job satisfaction, and the MPS was a predictor of total job satisfaction. The JCM can be utilized to understand CE's motivations and needs within their workplace and guide professional development via job enrichment efforts.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Center for Research, Innovation and Scholarship in Health Professions Education (CRIS), Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Center for Research, Innovation and Scholarship in Health Professions Education (CRIS), Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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