OBJECTIVES/AIMS:

Health Education England (HEE) London developed an innovative 2-year pilot educational and training initiative for enhancing skills in periodontology for dentists and dental hygienists/therapists in 2011. This study explores the perceptions and experiences of those involved in initiating, designing, delivering and participating in this interprofessional approach to training.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of key stakeholders including course participants (dentists and dental hygienists and/or therapists), education and training commissioners, and providers towards the end of the 2-year programme. Interviews, based on a topic guide informed by health services and policy literature, were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed based on framework methodology, using QSR NVivo 9 software to manage the data.

RESULTS:

Twenty-two people were interviewed. Although certain challenges were identified in designing, and teaching, a course bringing together different professional backgrounds and level of skills, the experiences of all key stakeholders were overwhelmingly positive relating to the concept. There was evidence of ‘creative interprofessional learning’, which led to ‘enhancing team working’, ‘enabling role recognition’ and ‘equipping participants for delivery of new models of care’. Recommendations emerged with regard to future training and wider health policy, and systems that will enable participants on future enhanced skills courses in periodontology to apply these skills in clinical practice.

CONCLUSION:

The interprofessional approach to enhanced skills training in periodontology represents an important creative innovation to build capacity within the oral health workforce. This qualitative study has provided a useful insight into the benefits and tensions of an interprofessional model of training from the perspectives of different groups of key stakeholders and suggests its application to other areas of dentistry.

中文翻译：

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牙周学专业间增强技能培训：对一名伦敦飞行员的定性研究

目标/目标：

英国伦敦健康教育（HEE）于2011年制定了一项创新的为期两年的试点教育和培训计划，旨在提高牙医和牙科保健师/治疗师的牙周学技能。该研究探讨了参与，设计，交付和治疗的人们的看法和经验。参加这种跨专业的培训方法。

材料和方法：

在两年计划结束之前，针对主要利益相关者进行了半结构化的定性访谈，包括课程参与者（牙医和牙科卫生师和/或治疗师），教育和培训专员以及提供者。采访根据卫生服务和政策文献提供的主题指南进行录音和逐字记录。使用QSR NVivo 9软件基于框架方法对数据进行了分析。

结果：

采访了22个人。尽管在设计和教学中发现了一些挑战，但一门课程汇集了不同的专业背景和技能水平，但所有关键利益相关者的经验在很大程度上都与该概念相关。有证据表明“创造性的跨专业学习”导致“加强团队合作”，“使角色得到认可”和“为参与者提供新的护理模式”。提出了有关未来培训和更广泛的卫生政策的建议，这些系统将使参加牙科学的未来增强技能课程的参与者能够将这些技能应用于临床实践。

结论：

跨专业的方法来增强牙周病学技能培训代表了一项重要的创新创新，目的是在口腔卫生工作人员中建立能力。这项定性研究从不同组的主要利益相关者的角度提供了一种跨行业培训模式的好处和紧张关系的有用见解，并建议将其应用于牙科的其他领域。