Facilitation on Interprofessional Training Wards
Challenges Facing the Facilitator’s Role and Tasks and Implications for the Training of Facilitators
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Abstract
from different professions to learn interprofessional collaboration in a real ward context. Placements on Mannheim’s ITW are mandatory for students of medicine, nursing and physiotherapy. The benefit of ITWs depends on the quality of facilitating interprofessional learning. The teacher’s role on ITWs differs from traditional teaching. Teachers are to stay in the background, facilitate interprofessional learning and collaboration while ensuring good patient care and safety. This role change does not come naturally and needs to be made explicit. The question is how teachers can be trained to effectively facilitate interprofessional learning and mastering the challenges on ITWs.
After describing the facilitator’s role, tasks and challenges on ITWs, a concept of a short training session for clinical teachers is presented. By explaining, reflecting and discussing the tasks and challenges of facilitators on ITWs, this session aims to onboard new facilitators, enhance facilitation skills awareness and ensure a common facilitation approach to interprofessional learning. The evaluation results show that the concept of the training session was successful as the participants benefited from alternating between input, reflection and discussion. Ideas for improving, extending and transferring such short training sessions are proposed.
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