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Virtual Communities Of Practice: Overcoming Barriers Of Time And Technology, Kieran Walsh, Stephen Barnett
Virtual Communities Of Practice: Overcoming Barriers Of Time And Technology, Kieran Walsh, Stephen Barnett
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Letter to the Editor.
Using Communities Of Practice To Enhance Interdisciplinary Teaching: Lessons From Four Australian Institutions, Emma Pharo, Aidan Davison, Helen Mcgregor, Kristin Warr, Paul Brown
Using Communities Of Practice To Enhance Interdisciplinary Teaching: Lessons From Four Australian Institutions, Emma Pharo, Aidan Davison, Helen Mcgregor, Kristin Warr, Paul Brown
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
We report on the establishment of communities of practice at four Australian institutions and evaluate their effectiveness and durability as a means of building staff and institutional capacity for interdisciplinary teaching. A community of practice approach is a potentially valuable methodology for overcoming dynamics of fragmentation, isolation and competition within universities. The communities we established were anchored by a shared focus on the topic of climate change and they worked collaboratively to build relationships of trust and reciprocity between teachers in a wide range of disciplines. The aim of each community was to improve the teaching of climate change through …
Implementing A Virtual Community Of Practice For Family Physician Training: A Mixed-Methods Case Study, Stephen Barnett, Sandra C. Jones, Tim Caton, Donald C. Iverson, Sue Bennett, Laura Robinson
Implementing A Virtual Community Of Practice For Family Physician Training: A Mixed-Methods Case Study, Stephen Barnett, Sandra C. Jones, Tim Caton, Donald C. Iverson, Sue Bennett, Laura Robinson
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Background: GP training in Australia can be professionally isolating, with trainees spread across large geographic areas, leading to problems with rural workforce retention. Virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) may provide a way of improving knowledge sharing and thus reducing professional isolation. Objective: The goal of our study was to review the usefulness of a 7-step framework for implementing a VCoP for general practitioner (GP) training and then evaluated the usefulness of the resulting VCoP in facilitating knowledge sharing and reducing professional isolation. Methods: The case was set in an Australian general practice training region involving 55 first-term trainees (GPT1s), from …