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Using Design Thinking to Explore Rural Experiential Education Barriers and Opportunities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Design thinking is a creative problem-solving framework that can be used to better understand challenges and generate solutions in health professions education, such as the barriers to rural education. Rural education experiences can benefit students, providers, and patients; however, placement in and maintenance of rural education experiences offer unique challenges. Design thinking offers strategies to explore and address these challenges.

Methods

This study used a design thinking framework to identify barriers of student placement in rural locations; this was accomplished using strategies to empathize with users (eg, students, practitioners, and administrators) and define the problem. Data were collected from focus groups, interviews, and a design thinking workshop. Design activities promoted participant discussion by drawing pictures, discussing findings, and creating empathy maps of student experiences. Qualitative data were analyzed to identify salient barriers to rural experience selection and opportunities for support.

Result

Focus group (n?=?6), interview (n?=?13), and workshop participants (n?=?18) identified substantial advantages (eg, exposure to a wider variety of patients, less bureaucracy and constraints, more time with faculty) and disadvantages (eg, isolation, lack of housing, and commuting distances) of rural experiences. Participants identified physical, emotional, and social isolation as a significant barrier to student interest in and engagement in rural experiences. Workshop participants were able to generate over 100 ideas to address the most prominent theme of isolation.

Discussion

Design thinking strategies can be used to explore health professions education challenges, such as placement in rural settings. Through engagement with students, practitioners, and administrators it was identified that physical, social, and emotional isolation presents a significant barrier to student placement in rural experiences. This perspective can inform support systems for students, preceptors, and communities that participate in rural educational experiences.

SUBMITTER: Wolcott MD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7890746 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Using Design Thinking to Explore Rural Experiential Education Barriers and Opportunities.

Wolcott Michael D MD McLaughlin Jacqueline E JE Hubbard Devin K DK Williams Charlene R CR Kiser Stephanie N SN

Journal of medical education and curricular development 20210101

<h4>Introduction</h4>Design thinking is a creative problem-solving framework that can be used to better understand challenges and generate solutions in health professions education, such as the barriers to rural education. Rural education experiences can benefit students, providers, and patients; however, placement in and maintenance of rural education experiences offer unique challenges. Design thinking offers strategies to explore and address these challenges.<h4>Methods</h4>This study used a ...[more]

PMID: 33644400

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Using Design Thinking to Explore Rural Experiential Education Barriers and Opportunities.

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