Juliët Beuken - PhD project data for study 3

Study Title Design, implementation and evaluation of a postgraduate workshop on cross-border healthcare in Europe – Mixed methods research. Study Description The main research question of this study was: ‘How does the workshop entitled “Creating Cross-border Collaborators” with elements of contextual, collaborative and reflective learning enhance trainees’ awareness of the challenges and opportunities of cross-border healthcare?’ Data were collected by means of surveys and focus-group interviews. The respective data collection instruments were iteratively constructed by four authors (JB, DV, MB and DD). The purpose of the survey was to get an overall impression of how participants experienced the workshop and of how the learning principles enhanced or hindered their learning, learning outcomes and the relation between them. The purpose of the focus-group interviews was to gain insight into participants’ perceptions of the workshop design. The workshop was held three times, twice in June and once in November 2020. Participants received information about the evaluation survey and interview at registration. Two weeks prior to the online session, participants received the preparatory assignment and a letter informing them about the research procedure. Before the online session took place, they were also asked to give informed consent. Directly after this online session, one of the trainers (DV) conducted the focus-group interviews. The focus-group interviews took approximately fifteen minutes and were audio-recorded and transcribed non-verbatim by the first author (JB). The surveys were conducted directly after the reflection assignment, one to threeweeks after the online session. Surveys were conducted using a licensed online survey tool (Qualtrics). The main conclusion was that, according to participating trainees, a workshop with elements of contextual, collaborative and reflective learning did improve trainee awareness of cross-border healthcare. This study highlights the fact that theoretical insights into ...