Developing the primary healthcare team as a learning organisation: a new model using problem-based learning.

The report of the Chief Medical Officer in 1999, and the government consultation paper A First-Class Service advocated a re-view of medical education and called for the implementation of strategies that encouraged work-based, multidisciplinary learning. Several articles addressing the problems of de...

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Publicado en:Education for Primary Care Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 301 - 308
Autores principales: Downey P, Waters M
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2005
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Sumario:The report of the Chief Medical Officer in 1999, and the government consultation paper A First-Class Service advocated a re-view of medical education and called for the implementation of strategies that encouraged work-based, multidisciplinary learning. Several articles addressing the problems of delivering education to the work-place in both the private and public sector have discussed the concept of the 'learning organisation'.This paper reviews the experiences of a team of educators in Herefordshire, who implemented a programme of activities by developing protected time for all practices, using problem-based learning (PBL) techniques and trained facilitators who could visit practices and run the sessions. The key aim of introducing regular, effective, multi-disciplinary educational activities has been achieved, and every practice has participated in the programme.