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The Clinical Teacher, a journal for clinicians who teach and people who are involved in education in a health care setting, published the experience of four institutions that implemented Roadmap tools and strategies into their pediatric training programs.
Co-authors from MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital, and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center tested incorporating Roadmap into existing educational structures or embedding them into the clinical workplace. Lead author Dr. Elizabeth Chawla noted, “addressing the emotional health of patients with chronic conditions in the clinical space has not traditionally been part of the clinician’s scope of practice and requires a cultural shift in addition to educational interventions.”
Importantly, they found that although learning in a traditional education program can improve an individual’s practice, educating clinical teams together may be more impactful for prompting sustainable behavior change in clinical practice.
Shared lessons learned from these institutions led to improvements in training materials, including expanded materials for teaching the clinically useful Normalize-Ask-Pause-Connect technique (N-A-P-C), greater involvement of patient families in trainee educational activities, and creation of a new module on the additional burdens of chronic conditions on families of minority racial groups.
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