2018 Volume 58 Issue 6 Pages 542-547
Objectives : Training was performed for new multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, using “Successful Self”, a psychoeducational program to prevent psychosocial distress and also to educate team-based medical practice. The purpose of this report is to analyze the usefulness of this training.
Subjects : Sixty-seven first-year multidisciplinary healthcare professionals ; (5 physicians, 54 nurses, 3 pharmacists, 1 medical technologist, 2 physical therapists, and 2 medical social workers) who had started working in a general hospital since X year participated in the training program.
Methods : The group training program was organized by an occupational health physician, a nursing director, a head nurse in charge of education and a clinical psychologist. The program included 5 one-hour lessons using a work book (two lessons in April, one lesson each in June, September and November). Participants answered the self-administered questionnaires regarding usefulness and impressions of the training program. We investigated about the data.
Results : Forty-two participants out of fifty-two subjects who answered the questionnaires answered the training program was useful. The qualitative analysis of impressions by the participants revealed that the program offered them the chance “to communicate among multidisciplinary healthcare professionals who had started work at the same time”, “to share their thinking and feelings, opinions and distress”, “to promote their self-understanding” and “to develop their perspectives”.
Conclusion : This training may be useful for first-year multidisciplinary healthcare professionals.
