Professional Skills Training Research Articles

Artificial Intelligence Supporting the Training of Communication Skills in the Education of Health Care Professions: Scoping Review.

Communication is a crucial element of every health care profession, rendering communication skills training in all health care professions as being of great importance. Technological advances such as artificial intelligence (AI) and particularly machine learning (ML) may support this cause: it may provide students with an opportunity for easily accessible and readily available communication training. This scoping review aimed to summarize the status quo regarding the use of AI or ML in the acquisition of communication skills in academic health care professions. We conducted a comprehensive literature search across the PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Web of Science Core Collection, and CINAHL databases to identify articles that covered the use of AI or ML in communication skills training of undergraduate students pursuing health care profession education. Using an inductive approach, the included studies were organized into distinct categories. The specific characteristics of the studies, methods and techniques used by AI or ML applications, and main outcomes of the studies were evaluated. Furthermore, supporting and hindering factors in the use of AI and ML for communication skills training of health care professionals were outlined. The titles and abstracts of 385 studies were identified, of which 29 (7.5%) underwent full-text review. Of the 29 studies, based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 12 (3.1%) were included. The studies were organized into 3 distinct categories: studies using AI and ML for text analysis and information extraction, studies using AI and ML and virtual reality, and studies using AI and ML and the simulation of virtual patients, each within the academic training of the communication skills of health care professionals. Within these thematic domains, AI was also used for the provision of feedback. The motivation of the involved agents played a major role in the implementation process. Reported barriers to the use of AI and ML in communication skills training revolved around the lack of authenticity and limited natural flow of language exhibited by the AI- and ML-based virtual patient systems. Furthermore, the use of educational AI- and ML-based systems in communication skills training for health care professionals is currently limited to only a few cases, topics, and clinical domains. The use of AI and ML in communication skills training for health care professionals is clearly a growing and promising field with a potential to render training more cost-effective and less time-consuming. Furthermore, it may serve learners as an individualized and readily available exercise method. However, in most cases, the outlined applications and technical solutions are limited in terms of access, possible scenarios, the natural flow of a conversation, and authenticity. These issues still stand in the way of any widespread implementation ambitions.

“I don't know if I understood the whole process from the beginning”: A photo-elicitation exploration of the experience of mastectomy and breast reconstruction decision making

ObjectivesPolicy and guidance assume that reconstruction following mastectomy will have physical and psychological benefits, however research has disputed whether this is always the case. This study aimed to explore mastectomy experiences and reconstruction decision making. MethodsSemi-structured interviews about self-curated participant photographs of the breast cancer experience were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). ResultsThree themes were developed: ‘Life before mastectomy’; ‘I don't know if I understood the whole process from the beginning’; and getting back to ‘normal’. ConclusionsDecisions regarding reconstruction were influenced by needs of others, and surgeons' communication and behaviour and negative experiences were prominent. Over time participants came to terms with physical and psychological impacts of mastectomy reporting re-finding themselves alongside acceptance of their post mastectomy bodies. However, many participants were living with the fear that their cancer may one day return. Communication skills training for healthcare professionals should be a priority to ensure decisions made result in the best possible outcomes for patients. InnovationPhoto-elicitation is a novel research method enabling rich investigation of mastectomy experiences. Self-curation of images enables patient-led discussions about mastectomy experience and illustrates the importance of life context. Photographs may have value within clinical training to facilitate understanding of patient experiences.

From classroom to kitchen: Predictors of training performance and transfer of culinary skills

With growing concerns over the workforce “skills gap,” additional insight is needed on the training and transfer of professional skills, particularly surrounding the transition from education to employment. This study leveraged latent change score modeling to examine the role of the Big Five personality traits, general mental ability (GMA), and training self-efficacy for predicting training performance and transfer, operationalized as change in performance ratings across two transition periods. Data were collected from Midwestern United States culinary students (N = 239) completing a 6-week capstone course and two consecutive 6-week externships during which they were evaluated on professional and culinary skills. Findings demonstrated complex relations with training performance, initial transfer, and subsequent transfer, such that GMA, conscientiousness, and openness/intellect (negatively) predicted performance in the training program, whereas GMA, neuroticism, and openness/intellect (positively) predicted change in performance between training and initial transfer. Implications for theory, practice, and the “skills gap” are discussed.

Integrating Professional Skills Training for Disabled Soldiers: A Pilot Study

Integrating Professional Skills Training for Disabled Soldiers: A Pilot Study

O.O.3.2 - Experiential approaches to professional communication skills training: a grounded theory study: Presenter(s): Michelle OToole, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland

O.O.3.2 - Experiential approaches to professional communication skills training: a grounded theory study: Presenter(s): Michelle OToole, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland

Kết quả khảo sát năng lực về xã hội, văn hóa và sức khỏe cộng đồng trong chăm sóc bà mẹ và trẻ sơ sinh của hộ sinh ở tuyến xã tại Việt Nam giai đoạn 2021-2022

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the social, cultural, and community health capacity for maternity and newborn care provided by midwives at the commune level in Vietnam over the years 2021–2022. Methods: From May 2021 to August 2022, 300 midwives in the provinces of Bac Ninh, Tuyen Quang, Dak Lak, Khanh Hoa, Dong Thap, and Dong Nai participated in a cross-sectional descriptive study utilizing questionnaires and interviews. Results: Basic social, cultural, and public health competences in maternity and child care include basic social, cultural, and public health abilities for caring for pregnant women and newborns. Midwives deliver babies at a rate of 80.5%. Increasing social, cultural, and public health capabilities in maternity and neonatal care A 54.8% midwifery rate. Conclusion: Basic social, cultural, and community health competences in care: Social, cultural, and community health basic and extended skills in maternity and neonatal care A high percentage of midwives provide maternal and neonatal care. In order to support the team in developing soft skills and professional skills at work, the study presents recommendations for strengthening midwives' professional skill and soft skill training. Keywords: Capacity, midwifery, commune level, maternal and newborn care

일터학습개념의 전문대학 적용사례 효과성 검토연구

Objectives The purpose of this study was to reveal what effects and difficulties of efforts in aspects of learning and education when the main concept of workplace learning was introduced to increase the ROI effect of corporate agreement education projects.
 Methods Based on the grounded theory, the research was conducted gathering information from the interview. It investigated cases of junior colleges that close to 5,000 graduates successfully hired at the contracted companies. One professor from a junior college giving up the business and 11 participating professors participated in the in-depth interview using phone, and there were four schools in the metropolitan area.
 Results As a result of conducting vocational education for 5 years from the current high school, 11 instructors agreed with that a high learning level of exploration including inquiry mind is possible, and the 3 year project group presented strong positive opinion. There was a lot of perception that graduates chose early work experience due to family backgrounds difficulty, partial real worker lectures, field practice, and company problem-centered learning were evaluated as useful for cultivating field practitioner’s way of thinking. It can be interpreted as similar to Brunner’s main concept of discovery learning. Professors updated technology by buying new equipments periodically, leveled theoretical knowledge in average, made students get doing competency, in order to prevent their students from falling behind as future talent due to their SMEs work experience.
 Conclusions Three specific research results, Germany University's dropout rate of 30%, 45% that is AI's job replacement rate of unskilled workers, and 65% of elementary school students who are unable to engage in current occupations, appeared in this study case. It seems that there is an oversupply of university education compared to business needs or job erosion due to automation is progressing rapidly. Regarding the effect of professional skill training, the development of big data and analysis system could result in workers’ de-skilling. Since it takes a lot of time to develop inquiry-based learning tasks, a guide and task examples of action learning are provided.

The Changing Face of Veterinary Professionalism—Implications for Veterinary Education

Veterinary professionals need to maintain currency with the rapidly expanding knowledge, techniques, and diagnostic skills available to the profession, while also accommodating the developing needs and expectations of clients and other veterinary stakeholders. Today, societal influence and expectations impose a heavy demand on veterinary practitioners, making it essential for tertiary veterinary education to equip veterinary graduates with the skills necessary to face these challenges and flourish in their profession. This paper explores four challenges faced by veterinary education in the development, maintenance, and upkeep of professional skills training: the divarication between employer expectations and veterinary education, the impact of demographic changes on the profession, the influence of institutional structures on the teaching of professionalism, and the risks associated with outdated models of professionalism training. The teaching of professionalism in veterinary education must continually evolve. One issue that may hinder this process is a divergence between the expectations of employers and tertiary institutions regarding the employability skills required by veterinary graduates. Veterinary professionalism education must also consider changing demographics within the profession and within society to provide all new graduates with the skills and tools necessary to succeed in the workplace, establish a sustainable work–life balance, combat burnout in new graduates, and be equipped to serve the general public. Failure to do this could result in professionalism teaching becoming complicit in a socialization process that perpetuates gender and cultural inequalities. This paper outlines some of the changes that have occurred in the veterinary profession and their implications on veterinary professionalism education. The article champions the necessity for veterinary professionalism education to evolve in concert with the constant changes in the profession.

MSFP: Undergraduate 'collaborate from home' research in macromolecular structure and function.

When the COVID-19 crisis shut down most undergraduate research opportunities, we developed an online, remote, computer-based Research Experiences for Undergraduates on the topic of Macromolecular Structure and Function that was funded by the USA National Science Foundation. The REU provided a mentored research experience and training in professional skills to assist the participants in pursuing a degree and future career in STEM. This fully virtual project involved faculty at four geographically-distributed institutions specializing in diverse but complementary approaches to study macromolecular structure and function. Importantly, its online “collaborate-from-home” format made it accessible to students during the pandemic to participate fully in the research, professional development, and other activities of the program. This project can also serve as an example for future remote, online projects that would especially be helpful for students who might not have access to these kinds of programs at their universities, might not be able to travel to a university for a summer program, have physical challenges that make it difficult for them to work at a lab bench, or students whose research opportunities are limited due to political unrest. We think our experiences with our MSFP REU program would provide helpful information for members of the BPS to set up similar programs to serve additional students.

Development and Evaluation of an Experiential Career Planning Assignment to Train Students to Assess Organizational Fit.

Determining if an employment opportunity will be a good match can feel daunting, especially for veterinary graduates entering the workforce. To ease this transition, veterinary educators traditionally have attempted to provide career support through interspersed didactic lectures on career options and the preparation of employment documents. While well intended, this approach fails to address the multiple dimensions of effective career planning or the reality that career planning is a lifelong endeavor. For a career planning teaching modality to be effective, it must address all stages of career planning and provide a framework that can be adapted throughout a career. Here we describe how a four-stage career-planning model, utilized throughout higher education, was employed to create a career planning assignment for guiding students in assessing organizational fit. We describe how student feedback was used to inform revisions, resulting in an improved educational experience as measured by students' perceptions of the utility of the assignment. Additional recommendations based on instructor reflection are provided to guide creation and implementation of future assignments. Given the growing support for professional skills training in veterinary medical education, we view incorporation of such learning activities as essential to preparing students to enter the modern veterinary workplace.

Reinventing Cybersecurity Internships During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Cybersecurity Ambassador Program provides professional skills training for emerging cybersecurity professionals remotely. The goal is to reach out to underrepresented populations who may use Federal Work-Study (FWS) or grant sponsored internships to participate. Cybersecurity Ambassadors (CAs) develop skills that will serve them well as cybersecurity workers prepared to do research, lead multidisciplinary, technical teams, and educate stakeholders and community members. CAP also reinforces leadership skills so that the next generation of cybersecurity professionals becomes a sustainable source of management talent for the program and profession. The remote curriculum innovatively builds non-technical professional skills (communications, teamwork, leadership) for cybersecurity research through student-led applied research and creating community-focused workshops. These student-produced workshops are in phishing, identity and privacy cyber safety, social media safety, and everyday home cyber safety. The CAs tailor the program to a particularly vulnerable population such as older adults, students, veterans, or similar people that make up most workshop participants. At this time, the data shows that this pedagogical approach to curriculum development, grounded in the Ground Truth Expertise Development Model (GTEDM), is a unique methodology. This curriculum teaches cybersecurity interns with key non-technical but critical KSAs for cybersecurity professional development has proved to be a factor in accelerated hiring for program participants.

Sustainable education and youth confidence as pillars of future civil society

While sustainability is at the centre of many government agendas, there is a great risk of entrusting strategic decisions to those lacking in sustainability expertise. It is therefore necessary to ensure that universities are the green engines of sustainable communities. The present study administered a questionnaire to students enrolled in a Management Engineering programme at an Italian university, to collect their perceptions of and opinions on sustainability and energy issues. Students completed the questionnaire twice: once prior to beginning and once at the end of term. The results showed that students held more sustainable attitudes at the end of term, and perceived sustainable education and youth confidence as the building blocks of future society. They also observed that decarbonisation of the Italian energy system and national energy independence would require the significant development of renewable systems and interventions to promote energy efficiency. In addition, they recognised subsidies for green production, energy communities, differentiated waste collection and professional skills training as crucial. The sustainable university should support younger generations by encouraging student engagement in real-world projects and the development of long-term, structured teacher–student relationships.

Return to valued activities: Survivors' experiences of adaptation and growth after treatment for head and neck cancer.

The objective of this study was to explore the experiences of head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors who returned to valued activities to understand how they reconstruct their lives following HNC diagnosis and treatment. A qualitative research approach based on social constructionist theory was used. A total of 21 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with adults diagnosed with any type of HNC in the previous 6years. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to identify themes. HNC presents a unique trauma following which some survivors navigate paths back to meaningful activities. The experiences of HNC survivors who adapted to life after treatment described internal and external change and development, identified by three themes; Mindfulness; Gratitude; and Adaptation. People diagnosed with HNC frequently experience lasting effects and other survivorship issues, however some survivors were able to return to valued activities and recreate a meaningful lifestyle reflecting the possibility of post traumatic growth. This study provides insight into the experiences of head and neck cancer survivors who were able to make meaning and find internal and external growth following treatment. These findings can be used to inform advanced communication skills training for oncology health professionals and psychoeducational courses for people diagnosed with head and neck cancer in the future.

MSFP: undergraduate 'collaborate-from-home' research in macromolecular structure and function.

When the COVID-19 crisis shut down most undergraduate research opportunities, the Macromolecular Structure and Function Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program provided a mentored research experience on the topic of Macromolecular Structure and Function and training in professional skills to assist the participants in pursuing a degree and a future career in STEM. The fully online, remote, computer-based program was funded by the USA National Science Foundation. It involved faculty at four geographically distributed institutions specializing in diverse but complementary approaches to study macromolecular structure and function. Importantly, its online 'collaborate-from-home' format made it accessible to students during the pandemic to participate fully in the research, professional development and other activities of the program. This project can also serve as an example for future remote, online projects that would especially be helpful for students who do not have access to similar programs at their universities, cannot travel to attend a summer program, have physical challenges that make it difficult for them to work in a lab or students whose research opportunities are limited due to the war in Ukraine. The lessons learned with the Macromolecular Structure and Function REU program can provide helpful information for ISCB members to set up similar programs to serve additional students. More information and resources are available on the project web site http://jefferylab.moonlightingproteins.org. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics Advances online.

The demand for competence and qualification of medical personnel in the light of the results of empirical studies

The demand for competence and qualification of medical personnel in the light of the results of empirical studies

Reform of Talent Training Mode of Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation under the "1+X" Certificate System

In recent years, in order to cultivate the skills of vocational college students, major vocational schools have increased their professional skills training. At present, in the course of mechanical manufacturing and automation, the school mostly adopts the cooperative learning mode. It conducts computer manufacturing skills practice for graduates. At the learning stage, middle school students and company personnel assess them together to improve their professional skills. Under the background of "1+X" certificate, the education of mechanical manufacturing and automation major in vocational colleges continues to realize the "1+X" certificate system, helping students practice knowledge in the process. Based on the "1+X" certificate system, this paper studies how to realize the effective combination of mechanical manufacturing and automation teaching and the "1+X" certification system.

Training professional skills using the Latin language (the case of medical specialties)

The relevance of the research is due to the fact that the study of the Latin language in a medical university has a purely professional orientation. The main goal of mastering this discipline is to train competent specialists to be proficient in professional terminology. Within the framework of this research, an attempt has been made to demonstrate the possibilities of the Latin language in teaching professional skills of future doctors and pharmacists. The article discusses three subsystems of medical terminology: anatomical-histological, clinical and pharmaceutical ones. As for the anatomical and histological section, typical mistakes and difficulties faced by students have been analyzed, and examples of tasks used by the author to solve these problems given. In the clinical section, the emphasis is made on the tasks that allow you to create an atmosphere of professional activity in the classroom and bring it closer to practical activity. The development of the pharmaceutical section is aimed at forming the terminological competence of future medical workers in the field of pharmaceutical terminology and general formulation. The author gives a brief overview of the material studied at this stage, and gives examples of practical tasks for its better assimilation. All the materials and exercises described in the article are used by the author in the process of teaching Latin in a medical university. Empirical methods, methods of comparison and analysis have been used in the research.As a result, it has been shown that successful teaching professional skills at a medical university is largely possible due to the study of the Latin language.

DESIGN OF POST SKILL TRAINING PROGRAM FOR HIGHER VOCATIONAL REAL ESTATE MARKETING UNDER THE BACKGROUND OF "NEW RESIDENCE DIGITALIZATION"

Under the background of new residential digitalization, higher vocational real estate professionals need to have applied skills such as market analysis, marketing planning, product sales, and customer management capabilities. How to cultivate real estate professionals who meet the needs of the development of the digital economy has become a difficult problem in front of our colleges and universities. This paper takes the combination of work and learning as the training mode, and carries out the professional skills training of real estate marketing through the combination of virtual enterprise and real enterprise, virtual network and real network, using “three penals”, “three clues”, “three stages”, “three locations” and “three task-based orientations”. By the above means, we are to found a training –teaching process of “point to face”, “line to face” and “face to tridimention”.

Factors Influencing Online Professional Skills Training Programs for Lecturers: A Case Study of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and its Implications on Decision Sciences

Factors Influencing Online Professional Skills Training Programs for Lecturers: A Case Study of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and its Implications on Decision Sciences

Research on the Cultivation Path of Artisan Teachers in Higher Vocational Colleges under the Background of Integration of Production and Education

Under the background of integration of production and education, the cultivation of artisan teachers in higher vocational colleges refers to the efforts to cultivate a teacher team that can adapt to the needs of practical work, possess practical skills and professional ethics through deep cooperation with industries and enterprises. This cultivation approach emphasizes the integration of practical and theoretical teaching, strengthens the capacity building of teachers in enterprise practice, improves their professional ethics and practical experience, and provides high-quality "artisan" teachers for industrial development. This paper takes the necessity of incorporating the spirit of craftsmanship into the integration of production and education as the starting point, expounds the new requirements and current situation of artisan teachers in higher vocational colleges under the integration of production and education, points out the problems in the professional skill training mechanism of artisan teachers, and proposes specific paths for the cultivation of artisan teachers in higher vocational colleges under the background of integration of production and education.