{"id":72239,"date":"2023-09-18T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/?post_type=issues&#038;p=72239"},"modified":"2024-01-02T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T00:54:37","slug":"involving-stakeholders-in-postgraduate-health-professions-education-programmes","status":"publish","type":"issues","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/issues\/involving-stakeholders-in-postgraduate-health-professions-education-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Involving stakeholders in postgraduate health professions education programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted: 10 April 2023<br \/>\r\nAccepted: 15 May 2023<br \/>\r\nPublished online: 3 October, TAPS 2023, 8(4), 59-60<br \/>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29060\/TAPS.2023-8-4\/LE3036\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29060\/TAPS.2023-8-4\/LE3036<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Siti Suriani Abd Razak, Bhavani Veasuvalingam, Pathiyil Ravi Shankar &amp; Norul Hidayah Mamat<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">IMU Centre for Education, International Medical University, Malaysia<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Dear Editor, <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We read the article titled \u2018Involving stakeholders in re-imagining a medical curriculum\u2019 (Foster, 2022) with great interest. We would like to share our experiences and extend the importance of stakeholder involvement in postgraduate health professions education programmes (PGHPE). These programmes are utilised by educators for skills development, career progressions and advancement of health professions education across various health professions. Our institution started accredited PGHPE programmes in 2018 to equip health professional educators within and outside our institution with competencies to deliver evidence-based education and impact graduate outcomes positively. Our curriculum review conducted in early 2023, began with a stakeholder engagement meeting involving students, facilitators, alumni, employers, and \u2018institutional partners\u2019 (national and international HPE experts). Focus group discussions were held on four areas: (1) HPE \u2018Industry\u2019 institutional Needs and Graduate Competencies, (2) Student Experience, (3) Scholarship in HPE, and (4) Inter-Institutional Partnership and Collaboration. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Four key outcomes emerged from the engagement. The four outcomes were increased educators\u2019 competency, digitalisation in health profession education, supporting scholarly work and publication and widening the scope of learning with global engagement. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The first theme of increased educators\u2019 competency is related to the value of our PGHPE programmes. Our alumni strongly felt their teaching and learning competencies were enhanced and they were more confident in accepting leadership roles. Greater emphasis on contextualisation was requested for example local and regional accreditation frameworks. Stakeholders jointly highlighted the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in HPE and emphasised that both awareness of and being able to work with digital tools is important. The use of AI in curriculum design, review and assessment may need greater emphasis. Greater HPE student engagement with online learning tools and assessments to promote deep learning was firmly echoed by our stakeholders. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The need for greater support to facilitate educational research and the possible formation of research consortiums was widely agreed upon by participants. The team has identified and initiated Health Professional Educational Research Clusters to facilitate HPE students achieve this goal. The final theme focused on widening engagement and collaboration. The centre\u2019s strong international collaboration provides opportunities for HPE students to share ideas and thoughts and enhances networking and collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">As a postgraduate programme, the number of alumni is more limited, and are educators with work experience, hence stakeholder involvement becomes more valuable to programme developers. Importantly, postgraduate programmes provider can utilise stakeholder engagement and feedback during different stages in a developmental manner. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Notes on Contributors<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Siti Suriani Abd Razak organised and conducted the stakeholders\u2019 engagement meeting, conceptualised and wrote the manuscript and approved the final version.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Bhavani Veasuvalingam organised and conducted the stakeholders\u2019 engagement meeting, conceptualised, revised the manuscript and approved the final version.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Pathiyil Ravi Shankar organised and conducted the stakeholders\u2019 engagement meeting, conceptualised, revised the manuscript and approved the final version<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Norul Hidayah Mamat organised and conducted the stakeholders\u2019 engagement meeting, revised the manuscript and approved the final version.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Acknowledgement<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We would like to thank Professor Vishna Devi Nadarajah and Professor Er Hui Meng for their support and feedback in the process of conducting the stakeholders engagement meeting and writing this letter. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Funding<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">No funds, grants, or other support were received.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Declaration of Interest<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">No conflicts of interest are associated with this paper.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">References<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Foster, K. (2023). Involving stakeholders in re-imagining a medical curriculum.<i> The Asia Pacific Scholar<\/i>, <i>8<\/i>(1), 43-46. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29060\/TAPS.2023-8-1\/SC2807\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29060\/TAPS.2023-8-1\/SC2807<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>*Siti Suriani binti Abd Razak<br \/>\r\nNo 126, Jalan Jalil Perkasa 19<br \/>\r\nBukit Jalil, 47000<br \/>\r\nKuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br \/>\r\n+6019-4429985<br \/>\r\nEmail: sitisuriani@imu.edu.my<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"template":"","issues_category":[19],"archive_category":[],"issue_type":[25],"volume_category":[61879],"class_list":["post-72239","issues","type-issues","status-publish","hentry","issues_category-letter-to-editor","issue_type-past-issue","volume_category-volume-8-number-4-october-2023"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Involving stakeholders in postgraduate health professions education programmes - The Asia Pacific Scholar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/taps\/issues\/involving-stakeholders-in-postgraduate-health-professions-education-programmes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Involving stakeholders in postgraduate health professions education programmes - The Asia Pacific Scholar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Submitted: 10 April 2023 Accepted: 15 May 2023 Published online: 3 October, TAPS 2023, 8(4), 59-60 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29060\/TAPS.2023-8-4\/LE3036 Siti Suriani Abd Razak, Bhavani Veasuvalingam, Pathiyil Ravi Shankar &amp; 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