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dc.contributor.advisorIversen, Anita
dc.contributor.authorJensen, Catrine Buck
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-28T13:52:52Z
dc.date.available2023-05-28T13:52:52Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-16
dc.description.abstractChanged demographics and the prevalence of chronic, non-communicable, and infectious diseases create challenges in healthcare - lack of resources forces a transition from one-to-one to team-based approaches. Health professional education must prepare undergraduates for collaborative practice to ensure a collaborative-ready workforce that involves the patient as a partner. Interprofessional education (IPE) is an approach where students from two or more professions learn about, with, and from each other; patient-centeredness is essential. Interprofessional clinical placements are fruitful for interprofessional learning and how to integrate the patient's perspective into teamwork, yet are insufficiently explored. The study is based on three papers and explores what happens when health professional students undertake an interprofessional clinical placement together and the role of the patient in such a learning arrangement. Data was generated through multiple methods; A scoping review, participant observations inspired by a focused ethnographic approach, and qualitative interviews. Data were analyzed following the principles of reflexive thematic analysis. Reviewing 73 articles, paper 1 identifies how patients need to be more included in research on interprofessional education in clinical placements. Paper 2 shows how the patient is the center of attention in interprofessional student teams’ work and learning process. Despite this, the patients do not always feel included when encountered by interprofessional student teams. In paper 3, preliminary findings show that supervisors are often absent in interprofessional student teams’ interactions with patients. The supervision of interprofessional student teams seems to have foci on the core competencies in interprofessional learning, not including the patient perspective. The dissertation provides insight into patient involvement in IPE and interprofessional clinical placements. Our findings suggest a taken-for-grantedness when looking at former research and empirical findings. Higher education institutions must be concerned about facilitating students to learn how to involve patients in interprofessional learning activities. Facilitating learning for interprofessional students must emphasize the importance of the patient and clarify how this can be enacted in encounters with patients. The latter also includes ensuring competent supervisors in interprofessional clinical placements.en_US
dc.description.doctoraltypeph.d.en_US
dc.description.popularabstractHealthcare services are changing as people get older, health workers are fewer, and there is an increase in diseases like cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, etc. Therefore, the organization and provision of health services are forced to change; consequently, we must also change how health workers are educated. Since the 1980s, the interprofessional collaboration between professionals, like medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists, has been highlighted as essential to ensure health services that can cope with the changes in health care. It has been emphasized that future health workers must be trained to work together from the day they graduate. It is also a goal to reduce fragmented health services and ensure that each patient´s voice is heard when care is provided; thus, this must be included in training for good-quality teamwork. Health professional students are most often offered opportunities to learn together in theoretical studies, online learning, and simulation with mannequins or actors; it has been harder to implement in clinical placements where students learn together with actual patients. Nevertheless, students are expected to work patient- and family-centered in interprofessional teams. We wanted to know more about what happens in interprofessional clinical placements and how patients are included when interacting with students. This dissertation, therefore, explores the patient role in interprofessional education for undergraduate health students in several clinical settings. To find out more, we used different methods. First, we looked at former published research on interprofessional clinical placements and how the interaction between students and patients was described. Further, different student teams were observed in their interprofessional clinical placements when meeting patients to understand how they worked patient-centered in their teamwork. We also looked at how the student teams' supervisors were involved with the patient and how they talked about the patient's perspective when supervising students. After observing this, patients, students, and supervisors were interviewed about what had happened in their meetings. Data were then analyzed and resulted in three research papers. The three papers give insight into different perspectives on patient involvement in interprofessional education. Paper 1 shows how patients need to be included more in research on interprofessional education in clinical placements. Findings from the studies where we followed students in their clinical placements show that the patient is the center of attention in interprofessional student teams’ work and learning process. Despite this, the patients do not always feel included when meeting interprofessional student teams. Preliminary findings from the third paper show that interprofessional clinical placement supervisors are often absent in student teams’ interactions with patients. The supervision of interprofessional student teams seems to have foci on how the students learn with each other but not so much on how the patient may perceive the student teams and how they could work patient-centered. This dissertation gives new perspectives on the involvement of patients in health professional education and interprofessional education. Our findings suggest a taken-for-grantedness when illuminating the patient view in clinical placements, which also appears in research on these learning activities. Educators must be concerned about allowing students to learn how to involve patients when learning teamwork—emphasizing the importance of the patient and how patient-centeredness can be enacted in encounters with patients. The students must have the chance to practice this with patients. The latter also includes ensuring competent supervisors in interprofessional clinical placements.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/29271
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.relation.haspart<p>Paper 1: Jensen, C.B., Norbye, B., Dahlgren, M.A. & Iversen, A. (2022). Patient participation in interprofessional learning and collaboration with undergraduate health professional students in clinical placements: A scoping review. <i>Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 27</i>, 100494. Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26442>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26442</a>. <p>Paper 2: Jensen, C.B., Norbye, B., Dahlgren, M.A. & Iversen, A. (2022). Getting real in interprofessional clinical placements: patient-centeredness in student teams’ collaborative learning. <i>Advances in Health Sciences Education</i>. Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28096>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28096</a>. <p>Paper 3: Jensen, C.B., Norbye, B., Dahlgren, M.A., Tornqvist, T. & Iversen, A. Students in interprofessional clinical placements: how supervision facilitates patient-centeredness in collaborative learning. (Submitted manuscript). Now published in <i>The Clinical Supervisor</i>, 2023, available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29955> https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29955</a>.en_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Andre helsefag: 829en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Other health science disciplines: 829en_US
dc.subjectHelseprofesjonsutdanningen_US
dc.subjectTverrprofesjonell samarbeidslæringen_US
dc.subjectPraksisstudieren_US
dc.subjectVeiledningen_US
dc.subjectPasientsentrert omsorgen_US
dc.subjectPasientinvolveringen_US
dc.titleThe patient´s role in undergraduate health students' interprofessional clinical placementsen_US
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen_US
dc.typeDoktorgradsavhandlingen_US


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