Health care professionals' perceptions towards lifelong learning in palliative care for general practitioners: a focus group study

Conclusions:
The effectiveness of undergraduate education might be enhanced by adding practical experience. Providers of continuing medical education should look to organize interactive, practice-based and interprofessional sessions. Therefore, teachers need to be trained to run small group discussions. In order to optimize workplace learning, health care professionals should be trained to monitor each other's practice and to provide effective feedback. Further research is needed to clarify which aspects of interprofessional teamwork (e.g. professional hierarchy, agreements on tasks and responsibilities) influence the effectiveness of workplace learning.

Source: BMC Family Practice - February 19, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Peter PypeLinda SymonsJohan WensBart Van den EyndenAnn StesMyriam Deveugele Source Type: research