Educators of Healthcare Professionals: Agreeing a Shared Purpose
About this ebook
This monograph reports on an 18-month long research project - the Healthcare Educators’ Values and Activities Study (HEVAS) – which aimed to establish the views of health professions educators, regulators, learned societies and professional bodies on the shared values and key activities undertaken by all healthcare professions educators. The project was funded by Health Education England and the Wales Deanery at Health Education and Improvement Wales.
Nine central values and 24 activities were identified after a five-stage research process involving hundreds of participants drawn from over 20 healthcare professions. A variety of methods was used to establish a broad and clear consensus, demonstrating conclusively that healthcare professions educators share a strong set of values around the importance of professional healthcare education to safeguarding excellence in clinical practice and patient care, both now and for the future. While each profession develops its students, trainees and practitioners in its own way, the fundamental work of the healthcare educator is broadly similar, regardless of clinical specialty or profession. This new insight provides solid academic underpinning for multi-professional and interprofessional practice in healthcare education, and offers a new shared perspective on the future for healthcare education and healthcare educators.
About the author
PGCE, MA, FacadMEd, SFHEA
Julie is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Practice at Cardiff University. In 2015 she was awarded the President’s Silver Medal of the Academy of Medical Educators for outstanding and sustained contributions to medical education. Her professional background is in academic publishing, and she was Managing Editor of Medical Education and The Clinical Teacher from 2001 to 2008; she is currently Co-Chair of Cardiff University Press Editorial Board and Honorary Editor of The British Student Doctor Journal. She has been prominent in a number of national initiatives to improve the training and recognition of professional healthcare educators: a founding member of the Academy of Medical Educators, she currently serves as its Vice-Chair of Council.
PhD, FAcMedEd, PGCE, BA
Alison is Professor of Medical and Dental Education at Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences and, since 2009, Director of the Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education. The purpose of the Unit and her main activity is to conduct multidisciplinary research and evaluation of the education and training of healthcare professionals. She accumulated over 100 peer-reviewed publications and is Associate Editor of the European Journal of Dental Education. The other main aspects of her role include grant capture, doctoral supervision and research ethics committee work.
PhD
Samuel completed his PhD in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, in 2018. He is currently a Lecturer in Psychology at Birmingham City University, where he teaches courses in Qualitative Research Methods and Social Psychology.
Chiara is a PhD student at Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences (SOCSI). Since 2018, she has collaborated with the Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation of Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE), Cardiff University, working as Research Assistant on different projects, including the Educators of Healthcare Professionals: Shared Values and Activities Study (HEVAS) project, funded by Health Education England and the Wales Deanery at Health Education and Improvement Wales. She has also undertaken a review of research into health and care professional regulation since 2011, commissioned by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA), and is currently working on a scoping review of Out of Programme (OOP) schemes in the UK.
CBE MD (Hons) Hon.FRCPCH FRCP(Edin) FRCPI Hon.FAcadMEd
John is Honorary Professor, RCSI Healthcare University. He has been actively involved in the regulation, development and delivery of medical and interprofessional education in the United Kingdom and Ireland throughout his career as Consultant Paediatrician and Senior Lecturer in Child Health at Queen’s University Belfast. Subsequently, since retirement he has been President of the Association for the Study of Medical Education and is independent Chair of the Medical Intern Board of Ireland. He is also a member of the AMEE ASPIRE Board and deputy Chair of the panel for Recognition of Excellence in Curriculum Development.
FRCGP, FRCPE, MMEd, FHEA, FAcadMedEd
Derek is Professor Emeritus and is currently the president of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) and education lead for Medics Academy. He was previously the Postgraduate Medical Dean for Wales and UK National Director of the Foundation programme. He was a founding member of the Academy of Medical Educators and past President. He qualified as a general practitioner but moved into medical education at an early stage of his career. He has developed many innovative academic training programmes in the foundation years and is author of several books on general practice and medical education. His current research interests are in interprofessional education and assessments within postgraduate curriculum.
