TY - JOUR
T1 - The Australian and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) Unconference
T2 - What’s an unconference and how can it develop communities of practice?
AU - Ross, Paul
AU - Moon, Kylie
AU - Paras, Annie
AU - Long, Paul W
AU - Paterson, Sheree
AU - Ghani, Manisa
AU - Knott, Cameron
AU - Lister, Bruce
AU - Nickson, Christopher
AU - Massey, Debbie
N1 - Funding Information:
During the unconference workshop and subsequent community engagement, there were 45 health-care professionals representing critical care specialists in medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, and academia. These included faculty participants attending in person or synchronously (Zoom, Trello) and asynchronously (Zoom, Trello) online. The unconference was supported by key Australian critical care professional networks: the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN), Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS), and College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM). It was hosted by the University of Adelaide. TM TM TM TM
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Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Australian and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) is a collaborative interprofessional group developed to promote the development of education in critical care healthcare practice. In November 2018, 45 critical care practitioners met at the first ANZCEN Unconference. In an unconference, the participants drive the agenda, and learning occurs from the active process of engaging in a community of practice. The aim of this unconference was to develop an innovative approach to learning through a collaborative framework with interprofessional representation across critical care specialties. Four key themes were identified in the unconference as drivers of interprofessional critical care educational priorities: interprofessional learning, workplace learning, faculty development, research, and scholarship. In this discussion paper, we describe our experiences organizing, participating in, and evaluating an unconference, and we examine its usefulness as a medium for promoting the interprofessional learning agenda in critical care. We hope that the processes outlined in this discussion paper will provide a useful resource for other clinicians who are considering developing an unconference. Finally, we argue that the unconference offers a unique and important model for future education of critical care practitioners where the emphasis on collaboration and communication through interprofessional learning and practice will be required to improve health outcomes and promote a patient-centered model of care.
AB - The Australian and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) is a collaborative interprofessional group developed to promote the development of education in critical care healthcare practice. In November 2018, 45 critical care practitioners met at the first ANZCEN Unconference. In an unconference, the participants drive the agenda, and learning occurs from the active process of engaging in a community of practice. The aim of this unconference was to develop an innovative approach to learning through a collaborative framework with interprofessional representation across critical care specialties. Four key themes were identified in the unconference as drivers of interprofessional critical care educational priorities: interprofessional learning, workplace learning, faculty development, research, and scholarship. In this discussion paper, we describe our experiences organizing, participating in, and evaluating an unconference, and we examine its usefulness as a medium for promoting the interprofessional learning agenda in critical care. We hope that the processes outlined in this discussion paper will provide a useful resource for other clinicians who are considering developing an unconference. Finally, we argue that the unconference offers a unique and important model for future education of critical care practitioners where the emphasis on collaboration and communication through interprofessional learning and practice will be required to improve health outcomes and promote a patient-centered model of care.
KW - adult Learning
KW - co-creation
KW - collaboration: community of practice
KW - engagement
KW - heutagogy
KW - interprofessional
KW - peer support
KW - Unconference
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082815705&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13561820.2020.1724902
DO - 10.1080/13561820.2020.1724902
M3 - Article
C2 - 32233894
AN - SCOPUS:85082815705
SN - 1356-1820
VL - 35
SP - 310
EP - 315
JO - Journal of Interprofessional Care
JF - Journal of Interprofessional Care
IS - 2
ER -