Professional Development is Enhanced by Serving as a Mini-CEX Preceptor

Chen, Walter; Lai, Ming May; Li, Tsai‐Chung; Chen, Paul J.; Chan, Cho‐Yu; Lin, Cheng Chieh

doi:10.1002/chp.20134

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“…Moreover, a meta-analysis of non-medical education studies suggested that training workshops for raters were associated with score accuracy improvement. This is also important for evaluator professional development, as the literature has highlighted positive impacts on personal learning and performance from serving as a Mini-CEX evaluator [34].…”

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The development and use of a pharmacist-specific Mini-CEX for postgraduate year trainees in Taiwan

Wei

Chien

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BMC Med Educ

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Background Clinical pharmacists must have a complex combination of academic knowledge and practical experience that integrates all aspects of practice. Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2007 launched the Postgraduate Year (PGY) training program to increase the standard of pharmaceutical care. This study aims to develop a pharmacist-specific Chinese-language Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX) to evaluate the professional development of postgraduate year trainees. Method The specialized Mini-CEX was developed based on the core competencies of pharmacists, published literature, and expert opinion. A pilot test and evaluator workshop were held prior to the administration of the main test. Fifty-three samples were recruited. The main study was conducted at two regional teaching hospitals and a medical center teaching hospital in Taiwan between February and June 2012. The results were analyzed with the kappa statistic (inter-rater reliability) and descriptive statistics, while the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to examine the PGY trainees’ Mini-CEX scores based on their performances. Results Trainees who had recently completed PGY programs (C-PGY) and 2nd year PGY trainees (PGY2) earned excellent scores, while the 1st year PGY trainees (PGY1) earned satisfactory scores in overall performance. C-PGY and PGY2 trainees also performed significantly better than PGY1 trainees in the organization and efficiency domain, and the communication skills domain. Conclusion This study demonstrates the feasibility of using the newly developed pharmacist-specific Chinese-language version of the Mini-CEX instrument to evaluate the core competencies of PGY trainees in clinical settings. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12909-019-1602-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The development and use of a pharmacist-specific Mini-CEX for postgraduate year trainees in Taiwan

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Chien

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BMC Med Educ

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“…Doctors have a professional obligation to contribute to the training of other doctors, medical students and non‐medical health care professionals. Teaching is inherent to the medical profession, and teaching can have a positive impact on a doctor's own professional development …”

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Near-peer bedside clinical teaching: example of a successful programme

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“…Being involved in facilitating the faculty development program, I took the responsibility to conduct a mini-CEX workshop to train faculty members how to use the mini-CEX tool to assess learner performance [36].…”

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“…My colleagues and I designed a one-hour workshop according to a format informed by our past experiences and relevant literature [36][37][38]. As a faculty developer who delivered the workshop, I encountered the following problems on the frontline: How could a faculty developer effectively engage workshop attendees and facilitate their learning?…”

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Evolving from Didactic to Dialogic: An Action Research for Improving Teaching Practices in the mini-CEX Workshops

Liao

Peng

2021

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BackgroundFaculty development is imperative to ensure successful outcomes in the training of competent physicians. However, how faculty developers can improve the delivery of an assessment workshop through researching their individual teaching practices remains unexplored.MethodsIn 2016, the authors conducted four cycles of action research in the context of mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX) workshops. Multiple sources of qualitative data, including a faculty developer’s reflective journal, field notes taken by a researcher-observer, and post-workshop written reflection and feedback from fourteen workshop attendees, were collected and analyzed thematically.ResultsBy doing action research, the faculty developer scrutinized each step as an opportunity for change, enacted adaptive practice and reflection on teaching practices and formulated action plans to transform a workshop design. In so doing, a workshop evolved from didactic to dialogic with continuous improvement on enhanced engagement, focused discussion and participant empowerment through a collaborative inquiry into feedback practice. These action research cycles also supported development of adaptive practice and identity formation in the faculty developer.ConclusionsThe systematic approach of action research serves as a vehicle to enable faculty developers to investigate individual teaching practices as a self-reflective inquiry, to examine, rectify, and transform processes of program delivery, and ultimately introduce themselves as agents for change and improvement.

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Professional Development is Enhanced by Serving as a Mini-CEX Preceptor

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

The development and use of a pharmacist-specific Mini-CEX for postgraduate year trainees in Taiwan

The development and use of a pharmacist-specific Mini-CEX for postgraduate year trainees in Taiwan

Near-peer bedside clinical teaching: example of a successful programme

Evolving from Didactic to Dialogic: An Action Research for Improving Teaching Practices in the mini-CEX Workshops

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