A critical examination of the role of appreciative inquiry within an interprofessional education initiative

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作者
Dematteo, Dale [2 ]
Reeves, Scott [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] St Michaels Hosp, Keenan Res Ctr, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Inst, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada
[2] Univ Hlth Network, Wilson Ctr Res Educ, Toronto, ON, Canada
[3] St Michaels Hosp, Ctr Fac Dev, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada
[4] Univ Toronto, Dept Psychiat, Toronto, ON, Canada
关键词
Appreciative inquiry; interprofessional education; collaboration; qualitative methods;
D O I
10.3109/13561820.2010.504312
中图分类号
R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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摘要
Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a relatively new approach to initiating or managing organizational change that is associated with the 'positiveness' movement in psychology and its offshootpositive organizational scholarship. Rather than dwelling upon problems related to change, AI encourages individuals to adopt a positive, constructive approach to managing change. In recent years, AI has been used to initiate change across a broad range of public and private sector organizations. In this article, we report findings from a subset of 50 interviews gathered in a wider study of interprofessional education (IPE) in which AI was employed as a change agent for implementing IPE in a number of health care institutions in a North American setting. A multiple case study approach (Yin, 2002) was employed in the wider study and semi-structured interviews were undertaken with participants both before their IPE programs and directly afterwards to obtain a detailed understanding of their expectations and experiences of IPE. Interviews were analyzed in an inductive thematic manner in order to produce key emergent themes from each of the IPE programs. A process of re-analysis provided a set of themes which offered an understanding of the role of AI within this IPE initiative. Our findings identify a strong resonance and fit for AI both among the health and social care professionals who participated in this initiative. Numerous individuals commented on the enthusiasm and energy AI engendered, while praising its ability to enhance their working lives and interprofessional relationships. Yet a number of difficulties were also reported. These focused on problems with the translation of the AI process into achievable structural level (e. g. professional, cultural) changes. Based on these findings, the article goes on to argue that the use of AI can overlook a number of structural factors, which will ultimately limit its ability to actually secure meaningful and lasting change within health care.
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