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Trial reportBMC medical education2022

The most significant change for Colombian medical trainees going transformative learning on cultural safety: qualitative results from a randomised controlled trial.

Juan Pimentel, Paola López, Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in BMC medical education, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Juan PimentelCIET-PRAM, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, 5858 Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges 3rd Floor, Suite 300, Montreal, QC, H3S 1Z1, Canada. juan.pimentel@mail.mcgill.ca.
Paola LópezFacultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Sabana, Campus Universitario puente del común, CP 250001, Chía, Colombia.
Anne CockcroftCIET-PRAM, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, 5858 Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges 3rd Floor, Suite 300, Montreal, QC, H3S 1Z1, Canada.
Neil AnderssonCIET-PRAM, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, 5858 Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges 3rd Floor, Suite 300, Montreal, QC, H3S 1Z1, Canada.

Funding

Faculty of Medicine, McGill University 260739841Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé 255568Fundación CeiBA 1020719140
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCultural safety training is not yet standard in Colombian medical education. If incorporated, it could address currently adversarial interactions between health professionals and the 40% of people who use traditional medicine practices. In 2019, a randomised controlled trial tested the impact of cultural safety training for medical students using participatory serious game design. The quantitative evaluation showed improved cultural safety intentions of Colombian medical trainees. We report here a qualitative evaluation of the most significant change perceived by trial participants.

methodsThis qualitative descriptive study used the most significant change technique. We invited the trial participants engaged in clinical settings to describe stories of change in their supervised clinical practice that they attributed to the intervention. Using a deductive thematic analysis based on a modified theory of planned behaviour, two independent reviewers coded the stories and, by consensus, created themes and sub-themes.

resultsFrom 27 stories of change, we identified seven themes and 15 subthemes: (a) Conscious knowledge: benefits of cultural safety training, consequences of culturally unsafe behaviour, cultural diversity and cultural practices; (b) Attitudes: respect and appreciation for cultural diversity, openness, and self-awareness; (c) Subjective norms: positive perception of cultural practices and less ethnocentrism; (d) Intention to Change; (e) Agency to accept cultural diversity and to prevent culturally unsafe actions; (f) Discussion; and (g) Action: better communication and relationship with patients and peers, improved outcomes for patients, physicians, and society, investigation about cultural health practices, and efforts to integrate modern medicine and cultural health practices.

conclusionThe narratives illustrated the transformative impact of cultural safety training on a results chain from conscious knowledge through to action. Our results encourage medical educators to report other cultural safety training experiences, ideally using patient-related outcomes or direct observation of medical trainees in clinical practice.

trial registrationRegistered on ISRCTN registry on 18/07/2019. REGISTRATION NUMBER: ISRCTN14261595.

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LearningStudents, MedicalColombiaCultural DiversityHealth PersonnelHumansColombiaCultural safetyMedical educationMost significant changeTransformative learning

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PMCPMC9463722

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