Education

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Education Center, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Australia, Nederlands, Australia

In considering how to enhance learning in the clinical setting, ask yourself the following questions:

Have I considered how junior doctors like to learn?
What is my students’ motivation? Is the topic meaningful, pitched at the correct level and with clear goals? Is there active involvement, regular feedback, and time for reflection?
Does my teaching style match my students’ learning stage?
Is the environment supportive of learning?

Expecting a struggling junior doctor to define his or her own needs, or presenting a mini-lecture to a mature and enquiring registrar, will demotivate both. Nevertheless, a degree of mismatch can challenge a learner and be a good thing. Shifting teaching styles from authoritarian (telling students what to learn) to delegating (getting them to tell us what they need to know) shifts the workload away from us and makes teaching and learning more fun. On the other hand, we all like to learn in different ways at different times — sometimes a didactic presentation is all we want.

In the clinical setting we want to enhance the learning of students, junior doctors and trainees to help them be better doctors, but not increase the time we spend making that happen. Junior doctors are adults who want to learn. If we feel that learning is not progressing as it should, we need to consider whether the style in which we teach and the style in which junior doctors like to learn are matched and whether the clinical setting is conducive to learning.

Tips and Educational Activities

No matter what your position is, you can help improve housekeeping practices at your facility by encouraging your supervisors to help make sure all staff, administrators, and supervisors understand and practice good housekeeping. The following are recommended activities and tips for promoting good housekeeping practices at your site:

Hold regular in-service training. All cleaning staff and their supervisors should receive periodic updates on effective practices on a regular basis. Information about good infection prevention practices--including good housekeeping--should be a part of this in-service training.
Hold staff orientations. Everyone at your facility--from doormen, to receptionists, to medical staff, to administrators--are part of the infection prevention team at your site. Through work with our quality-improvement tools, EngenderHealth has found that all staff at a facility benefit from periodic orientations to basic clinic services and critical infection prevention techniques.
Hang posters. Post signs listing housekeeping schedules for the different areas of your facility where they are easily viewed by cleaning staff and their supervisors. If you like, you may print out the following materials for posting at your facility (click on the "back" button on your browser to return to this page):