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. 2020 Dec 10;21:e59. doi: 10.1017/S1463423620000572

Table 3.

The overarching theme, categories, and subcategories from the focus group interviews with adjunct clinical lecturers and supervisors.

Overarching theme Categories Sub-categories
Interprofessional home visits in primary healthcare were an appreciated and effective pedagogical learning activity with a sustainability dependent on organisational factors Home visits as an educational IPL activity – Student activating in an effective way
– Instructive IPL activity when many professions participated
– The supervisor was a facilitator, which can be a new role for some supervisors
The activity was highly valued by the participants – The students developed both in their professional and in their interprofessional roles
– The supervisors experienced the activity as instructive and beneficial for patient care
– Interprofessional assessments led to quality improvement for the patient
Facilitating factors and challenges for the learning activity – Difficult for supervisors to allocate time for the seminars
– To organise the activity required extensive planning, but there were tricks to facilitate it
– Finding the right patient was a key factor, but it turned out to be difficult
– Designating sufficient time for organising the activity was perceived as a prerequisite
Organisational prerequisites for IPL and teamwork in primary healthcare – Separate organisations and geographical distances made cooperation more difficult
– The financial compensation for supervision was less than the reimbursement for care visits
– Support from the local management could make a big difference
– More engagement from and better co-planning with health education programmes would facilitate IPL
– Experience of interprofessional collaboration in the present clinical work varied
Opportunities for dissemination – The learning activity must be simplified if more students are to be able to participate
– If there is to be dissemination, supervisors must be more involved
– The project has opened for increased interprofessional collaboration in some cases
– Support from the adjunct clinical lecturers was important