Effect of teaching tools in spatial understanding in health science education: a systematic review.

Background: The concept of spatial orientation is integral to health education. Students studying to be healthcare professionals use their visual intelligence to develop 3D mental models from 2D images, like X-rays, MRI, and CT scans, which exerts a heavy cognitive load on them. Innovative teaching tools and technologies are being developed to improve students' learning experiences.

Empowering Patients With a Shared Communication Tool: A Patient-Oriented Multimethods Pilot Study.

Not all patients feel empowered to take on the expanding role as active members in their healthcare journey. Healthcare services must shift attention to supporting patients and families in this emerging role. This support includes providing communication tools designed for patients and families to empower them to speak up.

Learner Drawings of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: An Exploratory, Arts-Based Interview Study.

Interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) is a concept that supports the theory-to-practice transition of health professional students. Aligning with the global research priorities on building the science and scholarship through innovative evidence-informed strategies, the benefits of understanding stakeholder perspectives, notably learners, were considered an asset for this project. Informed by intergroup contact theory, this exploratory case study sought to gain insight into what perspectives and experiences rehabilitation medicine students encounter throughout their program that impacted their collaborative learning and practice experiences.

Technology Acceptance of a Mobile Application to Support Family Caregivers in a Long-Term Care Facility.

Background: Family caregivers are unpaid individuals who provide care to people with chronic conditions or disabilities. Family caregivers generally do not have formal care-related training. However, they are an essential source of care.

Technology Acceptance and Usability of a Mobile App to Support the Workflow of Health Care Aides Who Provide Services to Older Adults: Pilot Mixed Methods Study.

Background: Health care aides are unlicensed support personnel who provide direct care, personal assistance, and support to people with health conditions. The shortage of health care aides has been attributed to recruitment challenges, high turnover, an aging population, the COVID-19 pandemic, and low retention rates. Mobile apps are among the many information communication technologies that are paving the way for eHealth solutions to help address this workforce shortage by enhancing the workflow of health care aides.

"Building Your Neurology Acumen": A Flipped Classroom Approach for Internal Medicine Residents.

Globally, internal medicine (IM) residents often feel they lack the knowledge and skills to approach patients presenting with neurologic issues. We conducted a multiple method needs assessment to determine the feasibility of a novel neurology flipped classroom (FC) curriculum for internal medicine residents. Our primary findings include participants: (1) finding neurology a useful rotation; (2) feeling uncomfortable with the neurological examination; and (3) endorsing flipped classroom as a potential alternative but with significant barriers.

Conformity, obedience, and the Better than Average Effect in health professional students.

Background: Compliance, through conformity and obedience to authority, can produce negative outcomes for patient safety, as well as education. To date, educational interventions for dealing with situations of compliance or positive deviance have shown variable results. Part of the challenge for education on compliance may result from disparities between learners' expectations about their potential for engaging in positive deviance and the actual likelihood of engaging in positive deviance.

A behavioural study of obedience in health professional students.

Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) is a field of study suggested to improve team functioning and patient safety. However, even interprofessional teams are susceptible to group pressures which may inhibit speaking up (positive deviance). Obedience is one group pressure that can inhibit positive deviance leading to negative patient outcomes.

Automated essay scoring (AES) of constructed responses in nursing examinations: An evaluation.

Nursing students' higher-level thinking skills are ideally assessed through constructed-response items. At the baccalaureate level in North America, however, this exam format has largely fallen into disuse owing to the labor-intensive process of scoring written exam papers. The authors sought to determine if automated essay scoring (AES) would be an efficient and reliable alternative to human scoring.

A multi-method exploratory study of health professional students' experiences with compliance behaviours.

Background: Research in healthcare, including students as participants, has begun to document experiences with negative compliance, specifically conformity and obedience. There is a growing body of experimental and survey literature, however, currently lacking is a direct measure of the frequency at which health professional students have negative experiences with conformity and obedience integrated with psychological factors, the outcomes of negative compliance, and students' perceptions.

Methods: To develop empirical knowledge about the frequency of negative compliance and student perceptions during health professional education a multi-methods survey approach was used.

A case of validity evidence for the Interprofessional Attitudes Scale.

Numerous measures have been developed for the assessment of interprofessional attitudes, including the Interprofessional Attitudes Scale (IPAS). The purpose of this study was to assess, and contribute to, the validity evidence for the IPAS. The IPAS was used in a three-year longitudinal study to collect data from first year health professionals.

Medical education leadership: from diversity to inclusivity.

Both in Canada and globally, medical schools are prioritizing diversity in medical education. The ensuing development of innovative approaches to augmenting the representation, comfort, and success of students from under-represented groups has been increasing. Curricula have also expanded to better prepare graduates for the realities of effectively meeting the needs of a diverse patient population.

Longitudinal evaluation of attitudes to interprofessional collaboration: time for a change?

Longitudinal evaluation of interprofessional programming is necessary to understand the impact of interprofessional education (IPE) for collaborative practice. Attitude is one measure of intended behavior. The Interprofessional Attitude Scale (IPAS) was developed as an improved measure to examine the readiness for interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

Taking the classroom to camp: The facilitators' role in creating an impactful interprofessional experiential learning opportunity.

A case study approach was used to describe faculty facilitators' perspectives on the creation and implementation of an interprofessional experiential learning opportunity for students at an aphasia camp. The facilitators serendipitously created an interprofessional experiential learning opportunity for speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and physical therapy students volunteering at the aphasia camp. During focus groups several weeks after the camp, students discussed the interprofessional nature of their camp experiences and stated they had learned more about collaborative practice while volunteering at the aphasia camp than they had in any interprofessional course work, simulation experience, or clinically based fieldwork they had previously engaged in.

Evaluating Best Methods for Crisis Resource Management Education: Didactic Teaching or Noncontextual Active Learning.

Introduction: Health care training traditionally focuses on medical knowledge; however, this is not the only component of successful patient management. Nontechnical skills, such as crisis resource management (CRM), have significant impact on patient care. This study examines whether there is a difference in CRM skills taught by traditional lecture in comparison with low-fidelity simulation consisting of noncontextual learning through team problem-solving activities.

A Validity Study of the Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey: An Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Measure.

Background: In health care, there is a shift toward competency assessment, including in interprofessional collaboration and education. The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) has been designed to assess self-reported change in interprofessional competency.

Method: The current study collects validity evidence for the ICCAS by replicating and expanding previous research, examining internal structure, item functioning, concurrent validity, response process, and consequential validity, including theoretical interpretation of the instrument's application and outcomes.

Identification of Frailty in Primary Care: Feasibility and Acceptability of Recommended Case Finding Tools Within a Primary Care Integrated Seniors' Program.

Case finding for frailty is recommended as part of routine clinical practice. We aimed to test feasibility and acceptability of three recommended case finding tools in primary care as part of an integrated seniors' program. Program of Research to Integrate Services for the Maintenance of Autonomy-7 (PRISMA-7), 4-m walk test, and electronic frailty index (eFI) were used as frailty case finding tools for a target population of community-dwelling seniors ≥65 years of age enrolled in a seniors' program within an academic primary care clinic in Alberta, Canada.

Learning to Bounce Back: A Scoping Review About Resiliency Education.

Background: Health care professionals face high levels of stress from working in a demanding environment. Resiliency training has emerged as an approach to overcome occupational stress. The purpose of this study was to understand what is known about educational strategies for teaching resilience.

The Healthcare Environment: A Perfect Ecosystem for Growing Shame.

The expression "shame and blame" has often been used to describe the culture within healthcare when a mistake is made. There has been little exploration, however, on the shame healthcare professionals experience after a mistake. Based on an original grounded theory study on the psychological impact of mistakes on health professionals, this article explores why the healthcare environment is a perfect ecosystem for growing shame, how individuals are coping or not coping with the negative effects of this powerful emotion and what might be done at the system, organizational and team level to mitigate these negative effects.

Assessment of Resident Physicians' Communicator and Collaborator Competencies by Interprofessional Clinicians: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Unlabelled: Phenomenon: As we move toward competency-based medical education, greater emphasis is being placed on assessing a more comprehensive skill set, including the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in the workplace. Nonphysician members on interprofessional (IP) teams have valuable perspectives on actual resident performance and are often not adequately engaged in the provision of feedback to residents. Based on the educational theories of collaborative evaluation and social constructivism, this research examined the ability of IP clinicians to provide feedback to residents.

Launching first-year health sciences students into collaborative practice: Highlighting institutional enablers and barriers to success.

Developing and sustaining a comprehensive interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum infused throughout health science programmes at large post-secondary institutions requires not only champions within each program but also collaboration across professional programmes and strong support at an institutional level. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it reports on the development of an interprofessional learning pathway, an institutional curricular model, and the pathway launch, an introductory learning experience within the context of a large post-secondary institution.

Developing a culture of safety: Exploring students' perceptions of errors in an interprofessional setting.

Healthcare has a long tradition of silence around mistakes that cause or have the potential to cause harm to a patient, and there is evidence that this culture may be present from the beginning of a health professional's training. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine a team of interprofessional students' interactions with a preceptor in a simulation environment. The debriefing explored the students' reactions and assisted them with how to manage similar situations in the future to improve patient safety.

Dynamic and routine interprofessional simulations: expanding the use of simulation to enhance interprofessional competencies.

The purpose of this study was to develop, deliver, and assess relevant interprofessional (IP) simulation experiences for prelicensure students from multiple disciplines in certificate, diploma, and degree programs. Seventy-eight students from four post-secondary institutions participated in either a high-fidelity mannequin postoperative simulation experience (dynamic simulation) or a standardized patient homecare simulation experience (routine simulation). The University of West England Questionnaire was used pre- and post-simulation experience to determine the change in communication and teamwork.