PHD Candidate - Medical
Biography
Since September 2022, I combine the postgraduate training to become a General Practitioner (GP) with a PhD in research on training and education. My research specifically focusses on learning and working in networks to deliver networked healthcare within primary care. Health professionals work together in interprofessional networks for the individual patient as well as for the more overarching developments such as practice management and regional agreements. In these networks, relations are formed and knowledge is created. Formal educational formats in under- and postgraduate education to learn interprofessional collaboration exist, but in this training the required connection with the workplace is often missing. Whether third-year GP-trainees have the opportunity to learn about collaboration in networks at the workplace is unknown. Do they get the chance to broaden their perspectives beyond the GPs consulting room? With my PhD, we aim to gain insight in these opportunities by interviewing GP-supervisors and their trainees about their networks using an ego-centric network approach. This research is conducted in collaboration with the GP-training institutes in Nijmegen and Groningen.
Keywords: General Practice & Nursing science, Primary care, Family medicine, education research, informal lifelong learning, networks
Trefwoorden: Huisartsgeneeskunde & Verplegingswetenschap, onderwijsonderzoek, informeel leven lang leren, netwerken
