Using Design Thinking to Explore Rural Experiential Education Barriers and Opportunities.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Design thinking is a creative problem-solving framework that can be used to better understand challenges and generate solutions in health professions education, such as the barriers to rural education. Rural education experiences can benefit students, providers, and patients; however, placement in and maintenance of rural education experiences offer unique challenges. Design thinking offers strategies to explore and address these challenges.

Methods

This study used a design thinking framework to identify barriers of student placement in rural locations; this was accomplished using strategies to empathize with users (eg, students, practitioners, and administrators) and define the problem. Data were collected from focus groups, interviews, and a design thinking wo

SUBMITTER: Wolcott MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7890746 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature