Developing clinical education based on medical education research - findings from a faculty development program

• BackgroundStudents in health and medical education spend a great deal of their education in clinical learning environments. There is today a growing knowledge of how learning in the clinical education environment can be facilitated, as well as about existing barriers to the implementation of these skills. By studying how clinical teachers engaged in educational development work, we wanted to better understand the conditions and systems required for successful implementation. This project aimed at examining the conditions for the successful use of medical-educational research results to stimulate learning in clinical education. Summary of workBased on knowledge generated from educational research, a faculty development program was designed to enable five teams of clinical teachers from three university hospitals to participate in a faculty development program aiming to develop, implement and evaluate an educational 'tool' together. The five teams that participated in the program were interviewed in focus groups at the start and end of the program. Observational and document data were collected throughout the process.Summary of resultsAll teams managed to develop a tool aimed at students or clinical teachers, implement and evaluate it. The faculty development program and its structure as a year-long scaffolding of driving and legitimising change processes in the clinical environment was acknowledged as facilitating the implementation of the educational tools. One year after the end of the program, four of the five teams had presented their work at medical education conferences, three teams are currently working to publish their work.Discussion & ConclusionThe design of the program around building capacity for change together with workshops focusing different aspects of Mayer and Stensaker's Change process prescriptors was identified as a successful framework for successful implementation and use of medical education research in the clinical education environment.Take-home messageThe invitation of teams to faculty development program, together with a design building on scaffolding educational change and leadership enabled participants to translate medical education research into their clinical teaching practice.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

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educational change

clinical education

faculty development

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