Utilizing a Systems and Design Thinking Approach for Improving Well-Being within Health Professions’ Education and Health Care

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Kreitzer ◽  
Kennita Carter ◽  
Darla Spence Coffey ◽  
Elizabeth Goldblatt ◽  
Catherine L. Grus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Professions Education ◽  
Education And Health

scholarly journals Email Use Reconsidered in Health Professions Education: Viewpoint

10.2196/19300 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. e19300
Author(s):  
Jennie C De Gagne ◽  
Yesol Yang ◽  
Sharron Rushton ◽  
Paula D Koppel ◽  
Katherine Hall
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Health Professions Education ◽  
Email Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Email has become a popular means of communication in the past 40 years, with more than 200 billion emails sent each day worldwide. When used appropriately, email can be an effective and useful form of correspondence, although improper practices, such as email incivility, can present challenges. Email is ubiquitous in education and health care, where it is used for student-to-teacher, provider-to-provider, and patient-to-provider communications, but not all students, faculty members, and health professionals are skilled in its use. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities posed by email communication in health professions education and reveals important deficiencies in training, as well as steps that can be taken by health professions educators to address them. Recommendations are offered to help health professions educators develop approaches for teaching email professionalism.

scholarly journals Email Use Reconsidered in Health Professions Education: Viewpoint (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie C De Gagne ◽  
Yesol Yang ◽  
Sharron Rushton ◽  
Paula D Koppel ◽  
Katherine Hall
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Health Professions Education ◽  
Email Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

UNSTRUCTURED Email has become a popular means of communication in the past 40 years, with more than 200 billion emails sent each day worldwide. When used appropriately, email can be an effective and useful form of correspondence, although improper practices, such as email incivility, can present challenges. Email is ubiquitous in education and health care, where it is used for student-to-teacher, provider-to-provider, and patient-to-provider communications, but not all students, faculty members, and health professionals are skilled in its use. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities posed by email communication in health professions education and reveals important deficiencies in training, as well as steps that can be taken by health professions educators to address them. Recommendations are offered to help health professions educators develop approaches for teaching email professionalism.

Mobile Learning in Health Professions Education

2013 ◽  
pp. 193-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zarrin Seema Siddiqui ◽  
Diana Renee D. Jonas-Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Continuous Professional Development ◽  
Health Professions Education ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World

Recent technological advances have led to the adoption of mobile learning devices throughout the world and this is reflected in the articles that were reviewed in health professions education. Several criteria were used to review the selected articles, including the target group, phase of learning (undergraduate, postgraduate, or continuous professional development), the theoretical framework used, and the reported outcomes. The majority of the studies fit into Kirkpatrick’s first level of evaluation and report learners’ views of learning experiences. A smaller number of articles incorporated changes in learners’ behaviour, but only one reported benefits to the delivery of health care. To assist educators in using mobile learning as part of their teaching, an implementation framework including infrastructure, training, and ethical elements based on the literature reviewed is provided.

Online Faculty Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Chnimay Shah ◽  
Rashmi Vyas
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Development ◽  
Journal Club ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Health Professions Education ◽  
Online Faculty ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Online Faculty Development ◽  
Medical Educators

Online learning has been found useful for faculty development programs in health professions education. The purpose of this paper is to report the online journal club discussion on the article “Health Professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world” published in The Lancet in 2010. This online discussion was conducted from 15th – 30th August 2012 in the MEU- India Google group. The discussion was divided into two parts and moderated by the authors of this paper. Sixteen medical educators participated in the discussion and there were 63 posts in the two weeks that the paper was discussed. The discussion indicated that there were gaps between health professions education and health needs. Translation of social accountability into action is an important step to bridge this gap. One of the uses of advances in information –technology is to have an online journal club discussion, which could be an effective tool for faculty development.

Consumer expenditure inequality in India: a source decomposition analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayanta Sen ◽  
Debarati Das
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Gini Index ◽  
Durable Goods ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Consumer Expenditure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Consumer Services

Purpose This paper aims to deal with a closer look into the nature and extent of consumer expenditure inequality in India to identify the major contributions those are embedded, particularly after the economic reforms. Relative contributions of major consumption items/sources to the overall expenditure inequality are quantitatively examined in terms of a decomposition exercise. Eventually, the paper investigates the relative marginal effects of expenditure components/sources on overall inequality. Design/methodology/approach Gini index is used to measure the degree of inequality in consumer expenditure. Contribution of each expenditure sources to overall inequality is estimated by using source decomposition technique of Gini index contributed by Lerman and Yitzhaki. Findings The study observes that the inequality in consumer expenditure has increased in both the rural and the urban parts of India during the post-reform period. Non-food expenditure is more unevenly distributed, and it has been found to be more pro-rich in nature. Expenditure on cereals and pulses still exhibits higher inequality-reducing effect in rural and urban India. Education and health-care expenses have been inequality-increasing in the country. Contribution of expenditure on miscellaneous consumer services, durable goods, education and health care to the overall expenditure inequality is significantly higher. Originality/value The study identifies the capacity of different expenditure sources towards increasing or decreasing the overall inequality which is crucial for better redistributive policies to be adopted to enhance the well-being of the economy in real sense.

Arts and Humanities to Teach Civility in Health Professions

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-245
Author(s):  
Katherine Hall ◽  
Jennie C. De Gagne
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Innovative Learning

Incivility is defined as rude or disruptive behavior which may result in psychological or physiological distress for the people involved. These behaviors, which appear to be more pervasive than ever in today's society, both in academia and in the health-care system, negatively affect professionals' well-being and the workplace environment. Nurses have an obligation to practice with compassion and respect, and to develop creative solutions for addressing incivility. Education about incivility should begin in prelicensure programs for all health professions, so that students understand the behavior expected of them as professionals. When health-care professionals embody the ideals of respect and civility, they set an example for others to follow. The arts and humanities can be used as a pedagogical tool to provide innovative learning opportunities to teach these values through the affective domain of learning. This article discusses one of the creative avenues for facilitating such opportunity, the use of the arts and humanities to teach civility in health professions education.

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