Table 2 Focus group participants' quotes related to themes
Themes | Participants’ quotes |
|---|---|
Lack of integration | “When I was asked to teach them I really wasn’t given any information on if there was anything in particular that I was to teach them, or outlines of what they needed and that would have been helpful for me to know” (FG 4, dietitian) |
“I know very little about the curriculum … sometimes residents ask about the same things over and over again and I wonder, why is that, and then you realize it’s a key piece of their curriculum or a new entry to practice criteria, so, I do find it informative in that perspective.” (FG1, pharmacist) | |
“The days that I had the residents shadow me, sometimes I wouldn’t know until a couple of days before and that’s very difficult to try to get the most appropriate patients in” (FG 3, nurse) | |
Feeling valued as an educator | “I’ve had to earn my stripes…. once they know that they can rely on what I’m saying…then they start throwing more stuff at me.” (FG3, nurse) |
“When you’re looking at teaching needs, it depends on what the role is. If we’re collaborators, then the biggest challenge is, I have a learner here, but they have to learn how to collaborate with me and I can’t spoon feed them too much at the wrong time” (FG1, pharmacist). | |
“I think our residents love it when the [NPHCP] teach them. … When we start to team teach … they see how we interact together and it’s role modeling for them” (FG 4, pharmacist) | |
[Faculty Status would provide] “acknowledgement of our role and our status… it’s an important little piece of … giving back to us” (FG3, speech language pathologist) | |
“I work very hard …[there’s] no acknowledgement for it …. I don’t get anything for the hard work that I put into the medical students” (FG3, chiropodist) | |
“You’re doing two jobs at the same time and teaching always takes time. You’re not being compensated for it” (FG1, Mental Health Worker) | |
Competing demands | “… if I can’t even give back to my own profession, how can I … educate other health care professionals …?” (FG 3, physiotherapist) |
“For anybody to recognize the value of our services, we have to be visible and if we’re not visible then they forget about us” (FG2, pharmacist | |
“… honestly … the washroom [is] the only place where you can go (to debrief)” (FG 1, nurse). | |
“getting protected time to work on anything, even if it’s updating our skills in something that we teach… happens after hours” (FG4, nurse) |