Improving the quality of clinical training in the workplace : implementing formative assessment visits
Date
2019-12-09
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South African Academy of Family Physicians
Abstract
Family physicians have a key role to play in strengthening district health services in South Africa. There are a number of barriers to the supply of these specialists in family medicine, one of which is the quality of workplace-based training and low pass rate in the national exit examination. The South African Academy of Family Physicians in collaboration with the Royal College of General Practitioners has adopted a short course to train clinical trainers and a process of formative assessment visits (FAVs) for clinical trainers in the workplace. Training programmes have struggled to implement the FAVs and this article reports on the experience at Stellenbosch University and the issues identified. Clinical trainers who participated in FAVs mostly set developmental goals for themselves that focused on improving the learning environment and consolidating personal skills in training and assessment. The FAVs were beneficial for the family physician trainers, their managers and the academic family physicians at the university. The tools and process for conducting the FAVs may be of value to other programmes.
Conclusion: Although overall transmission is low with the PMTCT programme, the majority of remaining HIV infections among children under two years could be prevented by addressing the modifiable factors identified in this study.
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CITATION: Mash, R. et al. 2019. Improving the quality of clinical training in the workplace: implementing formative assessment visits. South African Family Practice, 61(6):264–272. doi:10.4102/safp.v61i6.5070
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The original publication is available at https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj
Keywords
Clinical medicine -- Practice -- Quality, Residents (Medicine) -- Training of, Formative assessment, Physicians (General practice) -- Training of, Community health services, Primary care (Medicine),
Citation
Mash, R. et al. 2019. Improving the quality of clinical training in the workplace: implementing formative assessment visits. South African Family Practice, 61(6):264–272. doi:10.4102/safp.v61i6.5070