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  • Healthcare Education
  • Professional Development
  • Interprofessional Collaboration

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  • Critical reflection enhances health professionals' performance in ambiguous practice settings.
  • Understanding the development of critical reflection is essential for improving care.
  • The study focuses on indeterminate zones of practice, characterized by ambiguity and value conflicts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the nature of critical reflection in practice.
  • To identify sources of critically reflective insights and approaches.
  • To investigate critical reflection at the intersection of healthcare and education for children with chronic conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Secondary analysis of 42 interview transcripts from an institutional ethnographic study.
  • Involved health professionals, school-based educators, and parents.
  • Transcripts were coded for critical reflection, potential critical reflection moments, and attributed sources.

Main Results:

  • Critically reflective practice includes understanding others, valuing diverse knowledge, identifying workarounds, recognizing inequities, and advocating collaboratively.
  • Participants attributed critical reflection insights to personal experiences, such as prior careers or close relationships.
  • Critically reflective practice is not a fixed trait but a learnable skill.

Conclusions:

  • Personal experiences and connections are key drivers of critically reflective views.
  • Critical reflection is a learnable skill, fostered by personally meaningful experiences.
  • Health professions education should integrate personal experiences and evidence-informed methods to cultivate critical reflection.