Coming in From the Cold—Physician Professional Development as Deepening Participation in the Healthcare Community

ABSTRACT

This Conversation Starters article presents a selected research abstract from the 2016 Association of American Medical Colleges Southern Region Group on Educational Affairs annual spring meeting. The abstract is paired with the integrative commentary of three experts who shared their thoughts stimulated by the pilot study. These thoughts probe the concept of patient “ownership” and suggest an alternative way of conceptualizing physicians' total dedication to patient care.

KEYWORDS:

• Ownership
• communities of practice
• legitimate peripheral participation
• total dedication

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Judith Bowen

Expert commentator biographies

Judith L. Bowen, M.D., is Professor, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR. She directs the Education Scholars Program for the Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics in the Department of Medicine and serves as the national education consultant to the Veterans Affairs Office of Academic Affiliations Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education, an interprofessional workplace transformation of primary care practice and ambulatory education. Her research interests include diagnostic reasoning, workplace learning, and interprofessional faculty development for clinical educators.

Karen Mann

Karen Mann, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Medical Education at Dalhousie University and Honorary Professor of Medical Education at University of Manchester, UK. She is involved in teaching, research, and development and writing across the medical education continuum. Current research interests are in self-assessment and feedback, reflection, assessment, professional identity formation, and distributed medical education. She has been involved in developing and teaching in higher degree educational programs for health professions faculty.

Glenn Regehr

Glenn Regehr, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Surgery, and Associate Director (Research), Centre for Health Education Scholarship, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada. Through his various research partnerships he has explored a wide range of issues in health professional education including authentic clinical assessment, professionalism, professional identity formation, interprofessional collaboration, self-assessment, self-regulation, and feedback.

Anna T. Cianciolo

Anna T. Cianciolo, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education, at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and Editor of Teaching and Learning in Medicine. Her interest is focused on exploring the influence of context (interpersonal and environmental) on the nature of learning and instruction. Areas of emphasis include small-group collaborative instruction, diagnostic strategy, and professional self-development.