Train for the Game: What Is the Learning Environment of Deployed Navy Emergency Medicine Physicians?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Medicine is a practice characterized by ongoing learning, and unique qualities of the operational learning environment (LE) may affect learner needs. When physicians move between differing practice environments learners may encounter situations for which they are unprepared. Using a conceptual framework specific to the LE, we therefore asked the following research question: what is the difference in LE for Navy emergency medicine (EM) physicians who practice in U.S. hospitals but serve an operational environment, and how do these differences shape their learning needs?

Methods

We interviewed Navy EM physicians who recently deployed to explore their perceptions of the deployed LE, how it differed from the LE they practice in stateside, and the perceived effect this

SUBMITTER: Hurst ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8138097 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature