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“We Want Good Education for All of Us” – A Participatory Quality Improvement Approach

INTRODUCTION: In ever changing conditions, medical faculties must face the challenge of preparing their medical students as best as possible for the demands of their future work. This requires involving all stakeholders, especially medical students in the constant redefinition of medical curricula....

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Autores principales: Holderried, Friederike, Krejci, Christine, Holderried, Martin, Lammerding-Koeppel, Maria, Loda, Teresa, Zipfel, Stephan, Herrmann-Werner, Anne
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8981205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35391878
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.538398
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author Holderried, Friederike
Krejci, Christine
Holderried, Martin
Lammerding-Koeppel, Maria
Loda, Teresa
Zipfel, Stephan
Herrmann-Werner, Anne
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description INTRODUCTION: In ever changing conditions, medical faculties must face the challenge of preparing their medical students as best as possible for the demands of their future work. This requires involving all stakeholders, especially medical students in the constant redefinition of medical curricula. Using the idea of “Communities of Practice” as conceptual framework, this study looks at semester spokespeople as an example for participatory quality management. METHODS: We conducted focus-group interviews with semester spokespeople at a German Medical Faculty. Data was recorded, transcribed, and analysed using MAXQDA. The interviews were analysed using meaning condensation method. RESULTS: Eleven out of 48 semester spokespeople took part. We found seven topics that fell within three main categories: (1) role of the semester spokesperson, (2) role of the fixed meeting, and (3) contact and commitment. Communities of Practice principles could be aligned to topics and categories. DISCUSSION: The idea of semester spokespeople based on the concept of Communities of Practice are useful in the quality management processes of a medical school and lead to greater involvement of medical students, identifying their needs. The reciprocal commitment among all stakeholders fosters mutual understanding and collaboration. Future studies could investigate the underlying motivational factors of dedicated students and how to transfer these characteristics to a larger cohort.
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spelling pubmed-89812052022-04-06 “We Want Good Education for All of Us” – A Participatory Quality Improvement Approach Holderried, Friederike Krejci, Christine Holderried, Martin Lammerding-Koeppel, Maria Loda, Teresa Zipfel, Stephan Herrmann-Werner, Anne Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine INTRODUCTION: In ever changing conditions, medical faculties must face the challenge of preparing their medical students as best as possible for the demands of their future work. This requires involving all stakeholders, especially medical students in the constant redefinition of medical curricula. Using the idea of “Communities of Practice” as conceptual framework, this study looks at semester spokespeople as an example for participatory quality management. METHODS: We conducted focus-group interviews with semester spokespeople at a German Medical Faculty. Data was recorded, transcribed, and analysed using MAXQDA. The interviews were analysed using meaning condensation method. RESULTS: Eleven out of 48 semester spokespeople took part. We found seven topics that fell within three main categories: (1) role of the semester spokesperson, (2) role of the fixed meeting, and (3) contact and commitment. Communities of Practice principles could be aligned to topics and categories. DISCUSSION: The idea of semester spokespeople based on the concept of Communities of Practice are useful in the quality management processes of a medical school and lead to greater involvement of medical students, identifying their needs. The reciprocal commitment among all stakeholders fosters mutual understanding and collaboration. Future studies could investigate the underlying motivational factors of dedicated students and how to transfer these characteristics to a larger cohort. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8981205/ /pubmed/35391878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.538398 Text en Copyright © 2022 Holderried, Krejci, Holderried, Lammerding-Koeppel, Loda, Zipfel and Herrmann-Werner. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Lammerding-Koeppel, Maria
Loda, Teresa
Zipfel, Stephan
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