Faculty member’s experience regarding rehabilitation teamwork education in Iran (A descriptive exploratory qualitative study)
نویسندگان
1 Department of Medical Education, Medical Education Development Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
2 Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Medical Education Development Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: The objective of rehabilitation therapists is to increase the functional abilities andquality of life in people with disability. Hence, cooperation becomes a basis for enhanced qualityof care. The current study aims to investigate the experience of faculty members at the School ofRehabilitation Sciences, regarding teamwork education for rehabilitation students.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a descriptive‑exploratory qualitative study. Maximumvariation purposive sampling was used, where in‑depth, semi‑structured interviews were conductedwith 13 faculty members working at four departments of the School of Rehabilitation Sciences, ShirazUniversity of Medical Sciences, in the year 2015–2016. Each interview was transcribed word‑by‑wordand went under analysis through MAXQDA 10. Finally, after reviewing the transcripts several times,the primary codes, subthemes, and themes were formed.RESULTS: Data analysis resulted in the formation of 469 open codes. Three themes emerged,including the experienced challenges to interprofessional education (IPE), experienced facilitatorsof team collaboration, and optimization of IPE. The subthemes of the first theme includedpersonal challenges, academic context, and sociocultural atmosphere. The subthemes of secondtheme‑included experience with various forms of interprofessional (IP) collaboration, IPE in certainclinical areas, and scarcity of role models for IPE. The subthemes related to the third theme involvedthe development of macro policies to facilitate IPE increased interpersonal collaboration and reducedexpectation of competition, and management and development of educational capability in professors.CONCLUSIONS: It seems that faculty staffs do not provide the same definition of teamwork educationand often do not prioritize it in their clinical teaching. Furthermore, barriers, facilitators and somesolutions were discussed by them.
