The Journal of continuing education in the health professions
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J Contin Educ Health Prof · Jan 2014
Multicenter StudyInnovative telementoring for pain management: project ECHO pain.
Project ECHO Pain, the innovative telementoring program for health professionals, was developed in 2009 at the University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center to fill considerable gaps in pain management expertise. Substantive continuing education for clinicians who practice in rural and underserved communities convenes weekly by means of telehealth technology. Case-based learning, demonstrations, and didactics are incorporated into the interprofessional program that helps to improve pain management in the primary care setting. ⋯ Project ECHO Pain is a successful continuing professional development program. The telementoring model closes the large knowledge gap in pain education seen in primary care and other settings. Expertise is delivered by implementing effective, evidence-based, and work-based education for diverse health professionals. Project ECHO Pain serves as a model for interprofessional collaborative practice.
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J Contin Educ Health Prof · Jan 2011
Multicenter StudyHow do physicians assess their family physician colleagues' performance?: creating a rubric to inform assessment and feedback.
The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta and Nova Scotia (CPSNS) use a standardized multisource feedback program, the Physician Achievement Review (PAR/NSPAR), to provide physicians with performance assessment data via questionnaires from medical colleagues, coworkers, and patients on 5 practice domains: consultation communication, patient interaction, professional self-management, clinical competence, and psychosocial management of patients. Physicians receive a confidential report; the intent is practice improvement. However, research indicates that feedback from medical colleagues appears to be less understood than that from coworkers or patients, due to a lack of specificity and concerns regarding feedback credibility. The purpose of this study was to determine how physicians make decisions about performance ratings for family physician (FP) colleagues in the 5 practice domains. ⋯ The CPSNS has used the assessment rubric to create an online resource to inform medical colleague assessment and enhance the usefulness of their NSPAR scores. Further research will be required to determine its impact.