EDITING: HARD KNOWLEDGE, SOFT SKILLS Schrank, Kelly
American Medical Writers Association AMWA journal,
03/2021, Letnik:
36, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Background: Current strategies to ensure maintenance of competency for practising surgeons typically consist of self-reported credits or knowledge-based recertification examinations or both. There ...has been a recent call for formal competency-based medical education (CBME) assessments as part of continuing professional development (CPD). Methods: A questionnaire was developed to examine attitudes toward CBME in CPD for practising surgeons. Items addressed experience with CBME, support for CBME in CPD, considerations for implementation and anticipated impacts of implementation. Email questionnaires were distributed to all members of the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons (CATS) (n = 138). Questionnaire responses informed development of semistructured individual interviews of practising thoracic surgeons. Grounded theory analysis by 3 independent raters was used to analyze the qualitative interview data. Results: Responses were received from 58 surgeons (response rate 42%). Only 9 (15.5%) had undergone assessment of competence while in practice. There was moderate support for assessment of surgeons' technical skills (50.9%) or decision-making (56.6%). Support was highest for a mechanism to flag surgeons in need of a focused competence assessment (83.0%). There was a diversity of opinion regarding the optimal timing of assessment and the ideal body to be responsible, with the highest support for assessments primarily for older surgeons (52.8%) and for CATS to play a role (56.6%). Eight surgeons participated in interviews. Interviews identified a range of benefits of CBME in CPD but also several challenges to implementation, including the need for fair, datadriven assessments, taking into account patient outcomes. Conclusion: A lack of enthusiastic support for CBME in CPD among practising surgeons could present a barrier to implementation. However, surgeons do foresee potential benefits for patients, surgeons and the health care system. By listening to surgeons' concerns and recommendations, an effective CBME strategy may be devised that would be embraced by surgeons and allow for improved patient safety and surgeon performance.
The article reflects the problem of formation of students' motivational competence in an inclusive environment of the university (motivations of affiliation, achievement, self-actualization and value ...orientations of the individual), presents the results of experimental work, testing of training for the of professional motivation of students in the process of studying disciplines of socio-psychological orientation, contributing to their successful professional development.
This is a systematic literature review aiming to systematically synthesize research of teachers' collaborative professional development (CPD) for inclusive education. In total, 21 articles out of 55 ...from three data-based met the inclusion criteria. Cohen's kappa was used to measure the agreement, found that the agreement between the raters was 0.72; substantial agreement. The results show that the definition of inclusive education differs, from the right to school attendance to full inclusion by participating in the same classes as other peers in the same age groups and environment. By that, models for collaborative professional development also vary. Most studies were small-scale projects without controls or data showing evidence for enhanced teacher or student outcomes or satisfaction. Accordingly, we could not obtain results showing powerful CPD models. We instead defined research gaps in systematic and evidence-based studies of collaborative professional development models for inclusive education. However, participation in professional development trainings resulted in teachers having more positive attitudes towards inclusive education. Results were also found that show that teachers who were most positive about inclusion also had the highest risks of burnout. Finally, results of the CPDs' effect on students' knowledge development in inclusive education was limited.
AMWA Education at Your Fingertips Alexander, Lori L
American Medical Writers Association AMWA journal,
09/2020, Letnik:
35, Številka:
3
Journal Article
This initial article in the Better Mentorship, Better Student Experience series provides faculty and students with a basic understanding of the potential benefits of mentoring and creating a support ...system. Written by Debra M. Barry, Heather Nesbitt, and Heather McAuslane, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, May 2024.
Teacher professional learning workshops have been frequently used to prepare in-service and pre-service teachers for effective use of technology in education. Evaluation of these workshops is crucial ...to identify the effectiveness of these programmes in terms of improving teaching skills, increasing knowledge, changing attitudes, and developing capabilities which support the achievement of student learning outcomes. Multiple approaches for evaluating professional development programmes have been developed, though each with different emphases and theoretical positioning. In this systematic review, 41 research-oriented teacher professional development workshops on technology use were critically analysed to understand how such workshops are evaluated. This study examines content evaluation, instrument types, and common professional development frameworks in teacher professional development workshops and reports on their usage and alignment. Based on the findings, the majority of papers in the systematic review did not deploy comprehensive professional development evaluation models to assess teacher professional development workshops. The majority of studies did not report on the use of established instruments for the purposes of data collection. It was further observed that the majority of these studies did not attempt to evaluate different dimensions of teacher change or different dimensions related to evaluation.
Education and communications has been shaped by the Internet since it arose. Today there are no limits for contents distribution and scientific information dissemination. Lab professionals can build ...its own network of contacts on social media, create online contents and access to a huge amount of educational materials. By this way, any professional can build a PLE (Personal Learning Environment), a system of contacts and contents that helps to manage their own learning.
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