Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism

Ackers, Helen Louise; Ackers-Johnson, James; Chatwin, John

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“…In our own sur-DOI: 10.4236/jss.2019.73026 312 Open Journal of Social Sciences vey of students completing placements, 97% reported that the placement had a strong or very strong (79%) impact on their cultural awareness [2]. These findings are echoed in many other studies [3] [4] [5] [6]. Great attention is paid in this literature to the accompanying concept.…”

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Optimising Student Learning on International Placements in Low Income Settings: The Contribution of Cultural Brokerage

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Ahmed³

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This paper challenges the assumption that student visits to low resource settings inevitably promote the acquisition of cultural competence. Much of the literature advocating the expansion of such "exposures" lists numerous positive outcomes with an emphasis on "cultural learning". With important exceptions, the concept of cultural learning remains uncontested, nestling in the fluffy haze of an inherently benevolent multi-culturalism. The emphasis in current research is on "learning" or "competency" at the expense of definitional clarity around the concept of culture itself. This results in a tendency to overemphasise (and essentialise) difference rather than commonality and conflates cultural learning with narrow (stereotypical) concepts of race, ethnicity and religion. The paper discusses the experiences of students undertaking placements in Uganda through Knowledge for Change, a UK charity hosting the Ethical Educational Placements project.

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“…Interestingly the interviews with professional volunteers in Uganda [3] suggested that the most valuable "cultural learning" was focused not so much on learning about exotic or different others but on learning what it felt like to be "other". One of the respondents described her experience as follows:…”

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Optimising Student Learning on International Placements in Low Income Settings: The Contribution of Cultural Brokerage

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Ahmed³

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“…The idea of 'deliberative practice' is associated with a particular theory of learning that emphasises the value of repeated engagement with a particular skill or skill set (Ericsson et al 1993). In our work on the gains associated with professional voluntarism, we noted the gains that NHS professionals experienced through repeated exercise of pre-existing skills (Ackers et al 2017). This dimension of learning was also in evidence amongst the students on clinical placements in Uganda.…”

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“…In our sister book on the learning of professional Volunteers, we noted the contribution that placements made to confidence in using existing skills (Ackers et al 2017). Most of the students on the EEP placements spoke of their new-found confidence in their clinical skills.…”

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“…As indicated above, Williams and Balatz (2008) identify management 'know-how' as a form of knowledge and management and leadership skills formed perhaps the most important element of learning amongst professional volunteers (Ackers et al 2017). It is perhaps unsurprising that fewer students referred explicitly to management skills as something they had acquired or developed while on placement.…”

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The Ethics of Educational Healthcare Placements in Low and Middle Income Countries

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Ackers-Johnson²,

Ackers³

2017

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Change Processes: Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork

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Ackers-Johnson

Welsh

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Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective

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This chapter examines the importance of multi-disciplinary team-working to the management of antimicrobial stewardship and behaviour change processes. MDT has played a major role in improving communication and reducing professional boundaries that had previously contributed to high levels of infection; extended use of, often inappropriate antibiotics and poor patient outcomes. The functioning of such teams facilitates the role of clinical pharmacy.

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Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism

Cited by 14 publications

References 56 publications

Optimising Student Learning on International Placements in Low Income Settings: The Contribution of Cultural Brokerage

Optimising Student Learning on International Placements in Low Income Settings: The Contribution of Cultural Brokerage

The Ethics of Educational Healthcare Placements in Low and Middle Income Countries

Change Processes: Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork

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