Exploring The Catalysts, Barriers and Reasons in Learning Transfer of Teaching Skills from Workshop to Workplace in Faculty Development: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Faculty development has increasingly become a vital component of 21st-century medical education and plays a critical role in promoting academic excellence. The challenge is to deepen faculty knowledge and skills through an effective faculty development approach that leads to the transfer of these skills to the workplace. The aim of this study was to identify the catalysts and barriers to the transfer of teaching skills from a formal faculty development workshop to the workplace, and to conduct a detailed investigation among medical faculty to explore the reasons for their perceptions of these catalysts and barriers. This study employed an explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach; in the quantitative phase, an initial survey was conducted with the medical faculty (n = 107) using the 48-item Learning Transfer System Inventory (LTSI), categorised into 16 factors representing the catalysts and barriers in learning transfer, using census sampling at a medical institute. The qualitative phase used a FGD with medical faculty (n = 9) through purposive sampling to explore in depth the reasons for their perceptions of catalysts and barriers. The results of the survey using LTSI showed that catalysts for learning transfer with higher mean scores were motivation to transfer, performance expectation, learner readiness, self-efficacy, opportunity to use, peer support, and transfer design, and supervisor support, while barriers with lower mean scores were personal outcomes and performance coaching, following the descriptive analysis. The overall reliability of LTSI was α = 0.8. The qualitative inquiry was set into four themes using thematic analysis: personal traits, training, supervisor’s role, and self-assessment. The study results highlight the complexity of skill transfer in staff development and the need for a systematic approach to elucidate the roles and impacts of various influencing catalysts and barriers.
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