level of mechanisms and procedures

Slide 19 of 24 Notes:
How to get the information you want is an initial key problem. Are the mechanisms and procedures available in the clinical area support information search and capture? The student may thus contribute to the improvement of the mechanisms through which information is accessed, managed and pushed to those who need it. Such mechanisms include: electronic communications; library; formal meetings: handovers, case reviews, etc; the passing of relevant information while working together; systematic interviews and observation.

Then there are the mechanisms and procedures necessary to structure and manage the workload of the day. Here enquiry may well focus on the 'levels of doing' and 'action' sketched earlier. What are they? Are they appropriate? Are key mechanisms or procedures missing? In short, what are the mechanisms that would ensure the necessary dialogue takes place to produce a high quality community of decision makers for professionals and thus high quality educational experiences for students?

Then there needs to be a mechanism through which a public record of the knowledge explored, evaluated, created and implemented is open to critique by peers and learning is assessed - archiving and making accessible the practice profile.