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Family physicians enhance end-of-life care: evaluation of a new continuing medical education learning module in British Columbia

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, July 2015
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Title
Family physicians enhance end-of-life care: evaluation of a new continuing medical education learning module in British Columbia
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BMC Medical Education, July 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12909-015-0392-4
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Helena Kadlec, Marcus J. Hollander, Catherine Clelland, Liza Kallstrom, Marcus Hollander

Abstract

The Practice Support Program (PSP) is an innovative peer-to-peer continuing medical education (CME) program that offers full-service family physicians/general practitioners (GPs) in British Columbia (BC), Canada, post-graduate training on a variety of topics. We present the evaluation findings from the PSP learning module on enhancing end-of-life (EOL) care within primary care. Pen-and-paper surveys were administered to participants three times: at the beginning of the first training session (n = 608; 69.6 % response rate), at training completion (n = 381, 55.6 % response rate), and via a mail-out survey at 3-6 months following training completion (n = 109, 24.8 % response rate). Surveys asked GPs about current EOL-related practices and confidence in EOL-related skills. At end of training, respondents also provided ratings of satisfaction and perceptions of the module's impact on their practice and their EOL patients. Satisfaction and impact were rated very highly by over 90 % of the GP respondents. Module participation increased the GPs' confidence on EOL-related communication and collaboration skills: e.g., initiating conversations about EOL care, developing an action plan for EOL care, communicating the patient's needs and wishes to other care providers, participating in collaborative care with home and community care nurses, and accessing and referring patients to EOL specialists in the community. Increased confidence was maintained at 3-6 months following completion of training. The EOL learning module offered by the PSP to family physicians in BC is a successful and impactful CME accredited training module for enhancing end-of-life care in primary care settings.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 86 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 22%
Researcher 11 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 9%
Lecturer 6 7%
Other 18 21%
Unknown 16 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 23%
Social Sciences 6 7%
Psychology 6 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 20 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 August 2015.
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#7,406,224
of 22,817,213 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,325
of 3,319 outputs
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#88,182
of 263,414 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#16
of 38 outputs
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