Exploring the value of qualitative research films in clinical education

BMC Medical Education

Research Article

Sue Jenkins¹  Fran Toye²  Karen Barker³  Kate Seers⁴ 

[1] Department of Anaesthetics, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK;Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Windmill Road, OX3 7HE, Oxford, UK;Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Windmill Road, OX3 7HE, Oxford, UK;Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;Royal College of Nursing Research institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK;

关键词: Qualitative research;    Education;    Chronic pain;    Professional-patient relations;    Personal narratives;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-015-0491-2

 received in 2014-12-05, accepted in 2015-11-19,  发布年份 2015

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMany healthcare professionals use both quantitative and qualitative research to inform their practice. The usual way to access research findings is through peer-reviewed publications. This study aimed to understand the impact on healthcare professionals of watching and discussing a short research based film. The film, ‘Struggling to be me’ portrays findings from a qualitative synthesis exploring people’s experiences of chronic pain, and was delivered as part of an inter-professional postgraduate e-learning module. The innovation of our study is to be the first to explore the impact of qualitative research portrayed through the medium of film in clinical education.MethodsAll nineteen healthcare professionals enrolled on the course in December 2013 took part in on-line interviews or focus groups. We recorded and transcribed the interviews verbatim and used the methods of Grounded Theory to analyse the interview transcripts.ResultsWatching and discussing the film became a stimulus for learning : (a) A glimpse beneath the surface explored a pro-active way of seeing the person behind the pain (b) Pitfalls of the Medical Model recognised the challenge, for both patient and clinician, of ‘sitting with’ rather than ‘fixing’ an ill person; (c) Feeling bombarded by despair acknowledged the intense emotions that the clinicians brings to the clinical encounter; (d) Reconstructing the clinical encounter as a shared journey reconstructed the time-constrained clinical encounter as a single step on a shared journey towards healing, rather than fixing.ConclusionsFilms portraying qualitative research findings can stimulate a pro-active and dialectic form of knowing. Research-based qualitative films can make qualitative findings accessible and can be a useful resource in clinical training. Our research presents, for the first time, specific learning themes for clinical education.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Toye et al. 2015