Training non-physician anaesthetists in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative investigation of providers' perspectives
Objectives To explore the views of non-physician anaesthesia providers (NPAPs) and their colleagues regarding the effectiveness of NPAP training programmes in three contrasting sub-Saharan African countries. Design This was a qualitative exploratory descriptive study. Semistructured interviews were...
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| author | Edgcombe, H Baxter, L Kudsk-Iversen, S Thwaites, V Bulamba, F |
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| description | Objectives To explore the views of non-physician anaesthesia providers (NPAPs) and their colleagues regarding the effectiveness of NPAP training programmes in three contrasting sub-Saharan African countries. Design This was a qualitative exploratory descriptive study. Semistructured interviews were conducted online, recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically using NVivo. Setting Participants’ homes or workplaces in Sierra Leone, Somaliland and Uganda. Participants 15 NPAPs, physician anaesthetists and surgeons working in the countries concerned. Results Three major themes were identified: (1) discrepancy between urban training and rural practice, (2) prominent development of attitudes outside the curricular set during training, including approaches to learning and clinical responsibility and (3) the importance of interprofessional relationships developed during training for later practice. Conclusions Anaesthesia providers in different cadres and very different country contexts in sub-Saharan Africa describe common themes in training which appear to be significant for their later practice. Not all these issues are explicitly planned for in current training programmes, although they are important in the view of providers. Subsequent programme development should consider these themes with a view to enhancing the safety and quality of anaesthesia practice in this context. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0b5993a6-a94c-41af-8669-c01cd6d821d92022-03-26T09:28:55ZTraining non-physician anaesthetists in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative investigation of providers' perspectivesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0b5993a6-a94c-41af-8669-c01cd6d821d9Symplectic Elements at OxfordBMJ Publishing Group2019Edgcombe, HBaxter, LKudsk-Iversen, SThwaites, VBulamba, FObjectives To explore the views of non-physician anaesthesia providers (NPAPs) and their colleagues regarding the effectiveness of NPAP training programmes in three contrasting sub-Saharan African countries. Design This was a qualitative exploratory descriptive study. Semistructured interviews were conducted online, recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically using NVivo. Setting Participants’ homes or workplaces in Sierra Leone, Somaliland and Uganda. Participants 15 NPAPs, physician anaesthetists and surgeons working in the countries concerned. Results Three major themes were identified: (1) discrepancy between urban training and rural practice, (2) prominent development of attitudes outside the curricular set during training, including approaches to learning and clinical responsibility and (3) the importance of interprofessional relationships developed during training for later practice. Conclusions Anaesthesia providers in different cadres and very different country contexts in sub-Saharan Africa describe common themes in training which appear to be significant for their later practice. Not all these issues are explicitly planned for in current training programmes, although they are important in the view of providers. Subsequent programme development should consider these themes with a view to enhancing the safety and quality of anaesthesia practice in this context. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
| spellingShingle | Edgcombe, H Baxter, L Kudsk-Iversen, S Thwaites, V Bulamba, F Training non-physician anaesthetists in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative investigation of providers' perspectives |
| title | Training non-physician anaesthetists in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative investigation of providers' perspectives |
| title_full | Training non-physician anaesthetists in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative investigation of providers' perspectives |
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