Co-Creating an Expansive Health Care Learning System.

Area of Science:

• Health Professions Education
• Healthcare Systems
• Collaborative Practice

Background:

• Co-creation in healthcare offers transformative potential but requires new educational paradigms.
• Current health professions education may not adequately prepare professionals for co-creative roles.
• Reconsidering healthcare purposes, relationships, norms, and priorities is central to co-creation.

Purpose of the Study:

• To explore how co-creation practices can be integrated into health professions education.
• To advocate for a reimagined educational approach to foster co-creative healthcare systems.
• To identify the necessity of an 'expansive health care learning system' for effective co-creation.

Main Methods:

• Conceptual analysis of co-creation principles in professional education.
• Argumentation for a paradigm shift in health professions training.
• Proposal of an 'expansive health care learning system' framework.

Main Results:

• Transformative co-creation necessitates a radical rethinking of existing professional education.
• Health professionals and students must navigate competing traditions and expectations for co-creative roles.
• An expansive health care learning system is identified as essential for supporting co-creative health systems.

Conclusions:

• Health professions education must evolve to support genuine co-creation.
• Developing an expansive learning system is key to preparing professionals for collaborative healthcare.
• Rethinking education is fundamental to realizing the transformative potential of co-creation in healthcare.