Piet Vanden Bussche, co-ordinator
The closed Equip meeting in Bucharest decided that teaching Quality was one of the strategic priorities for the next 3 years. During the meeting a task group already started the discussion and came up with 4 priorities(4 projects) These priorities were discussed and approved by the assembly. We give you a short notice on things realised for each topic since then.
- to produce a position paper with a proposition on the curriculum of teaching quality: which competencies/knowledge of quality themes should be obtained during teaching
We found contact persons in the other networks and realised a first workshop at the Wonca Europe Malaga conference 2010. (link to the PPTpresentation of the workshop)
The results of the discussions in the workshop are now analysed and will be used to develop a first draft.
- to publish a document/analysis of the European situation about the actual curriculum of teaching quality at the universities, their departments of family medicine, and the national colleges
After preparing the questionnaire within the working group at several closed meetings and intense communication in between meetings we reached consensus about a web-based questionnaire. We piloted the questionnaire, realised tree revisions with minor and major adaptations before sending it out to delegates of the three networks in June 2010. We repeatedly have send reminders and at 15 of july we got over 150 usable answers from 27 different European countries. More detailed results will be published in a more exhaustive document in 2011.
Link to the questionnaire
A first global analysis : (PPT slides Zalika as presented in the workshop)
- to produce a web based inventory of useable information and tools to teach quality
From the questionnaire we already got very interesting reactions about local initiatives. Depending on the priorities set out in the workshop we plan to have further workshops and interactive sessions in Equip and Wonca meetings about teaching more specific topics of quality e.g. ‘how to deal with and prevent mistakes and faults’. Results of the workshops, interesting links and the presentations will be posted on the equip website.
- organising a European Summer School on Quality Improvement.. In this way offering support to national colleges and departments of family medicine the possibility of ‘training their trainers’
A first Summer school was organised in 2009.
