Healthcare Disparities: Encouraging Change Through Continuing Professional Development
Throughout history, healthcare disparities have contributed harm to patient’s physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Use of continuing professional development (CPD) can relay practical application of strategies to mitigate healthcare disparities. However, there is limited data on the impact of...
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author | Menear, Richard A. Hernandez, Katelyn N. Handley, Lisa Lora, Ashley Ann Nisly, Sarah A |
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description | Throughout history, healthcare disparities have contributed harm to patient’s physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Use of continuing professional development (CPD) can relay practical application of strategies to mitigate healthcare disparities. However, there is limited data on the impact of disparities focused CPD. In this article, we summarise quantitative data surrounding seven CPD programmes with a focus on healthcare disparities. In totality 41,588 healthcare providers interacted with educational content in these programmes. Learners responding to assessment questions yielded a 25% improvement in knowledge-based questions and a 27% improvement competence-based questions (p < 0.05 for each). Lastly, 1101 (2.5%) learners participated in a post-activity evaluation. Of those, 59% reported use of the information from these CPD programmes to reinforce their current practice, while 34% planned to make changes in their current practice to implement strategies to reduce or mitigate healthcare disparities. These findings show promise for use of CPD to improve awareness and help healthcare providers understand and mitigate disparities. |
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spelling | pubmed-105780812023-10-17 Healthcare Disparities: Encouraging Change Through Continuing Professional Development Menear, Richard A. Hernandez, Katelyn N. Handley, Lisa Lora, Ashley Ann Nisly, Sarah A J CME Brief Report Throughout history, healthcare disparities have contributed harm to patient’s physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Use of continuing professional development (CPD) can relay practical application of strategies to mitigate healthcare disparities. However, there is limited data on the impact of disparities focused CPD. In this article, we summarise quantitative data surrounding seven CPD programmes with a focus on healthcare disparities. In totality 41,588 healthcare providers interacted with educational content in these programmes. Learners responding to assessment questions yielded a 25% improvement in knowledge-based questions and a 27% improvement competence-based questions (p < 0.05 for each). Lastly, 1101 (2.5%) learners participated in a post-activity evaluation. Of those, 59% reported use of the information from these CPD programmes to reinforce their current practice, while 34% planned to make changes in their current practice to implement strategies to reduce or mitigate healthcare disparities. These findings show promise for use of CPD to improve awareness and help healthcare providers understand and mitigate disparities. Taylor & Francis 2023-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10578081/ /pubmed/37850073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/28338073.2023.2269075 Text en © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Menear, Richard A. Hernandez, Katelyn N. Handley, Lisa Lora, Ashley Ann Nisly, Sarah A Healthcare Disparities: Encouraging Change Through Continuing Professional Development |
title | Healthcare Disparities: Encouraging Change Through Continuing Professional Development |
title_full | Healthcare Disparities: Encouraging Change Through Continuing Professional Development |
title_fullStr | Healthcare Disparities: Encouraging Change Through Continuing Professional Development |
title_full_unstemmed | Healthcare Disparities: Encouraging Change Through Continuing Professional Development |
title_short | Healthcare Disparities: Encouraging Change Through Continuing Professional Development |
title_sort | healthcare disparities: encouraging change through continuing professional development |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10578081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37850073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/28338073.2023.2269075 |
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