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- Title
Motivators and barriers for rural community preceptors in teaching: A qualitative study.
- Authors
Alexandraki, Irene; Kern, Anne; Beck Dallaghan, Gary L.; Baker, Russell; Seegmiller, Jeffrey
- Abstract
Purpose: Increasing challenges in recruiting and retaining community‐based teaching physicians (e.g., community preceptors) call for a better understanding of motivators and barriers community preceptors perceive in their teaching role. Given the importance of medical school partnerships with community‐based sites for student training, it is essential to understand the perspectives of community preceptors as teaching physicians in a context away from the medical school, such as rural, and the factors affecting their career choice to engage in teaching while practising medicine. Methods: We conducted semi‐structured interviews with rural community preceptors and used open coding to conceptualise data and axial coding to connect codes into categories. We used the socio‐cognitive career theory framework to organise categories into themes. Results: Eleven rural community preceptors from two medical schools participated. Specialties included family medicine, internal medicine and paediatrics; clinical practice and teaching experience ranged from 3–36 and 2–29 years, respectively. Readiness for teaching ('self‐efficacy') was pivotal in community preceptors' decision to teach and derived largely from vicarious learning from teaching attendings in medical school or residency; social persuasion and encouragement from clinical partners; and their accomplishments as practising physicians. However, limited faculty development, incomplete knowledge of expectations, disengagement from the medical school and lack of current mentors hindered their self‐confidence. Teaching fulfilled their aspirations ('outcome expectations') to give back to the profession, but they felt undervalued and disconnected from other clinician educators. Teaching increased job satisfaction, but clinical workload, and financial impact impeded their goals for achieving excellence ('performance'). Conclusions: Self‐efficacy was a pivotal motivator in rural community preceptors' decision to teach. Role models from early training inspired them to teach. Internal awards sustained teaching efforts. Future research should explore structural barriers influencing rural community preceptors' teaching experiences to better support their career choice to become medical educators. Understanding rural community preceptors' motivations and barriers in teaching medical students is crucial for training. This study explores the role of self‐efficacy, giving back to the profession, and disengagement from medical schools. #MedEd #RuralHealth
- Subjects
INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; QUALITATIVE research; SELF-efficacy; FAMILY medicine; INTERVIEWING; TEACHING; CONFIDENCE; MOTIVATION (Psychology); THEMATIC analysis; PEDIATRICS; JOB satisfaction; RURAL population; MEDICAL schools; ATTITUDES of medical personnel; RESEARCH methodology; INTERNAL medicine; ROLE models; MEDICAL preceptorship; VOCATIONAL guidance; EMPLOYEES' workload
- Publication
Medical Education, 2024, Vol 58, Issue 6, p737
- ISSN
0308-0110
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/medu.15286