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Enhancing Workplace Learning: A Video Reflexive Ethnography Study
The Clinical Teacher, Vol.22(3), pp.1-8
06/2025
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Abstract
Introduction: The clinical environment offers rich learning opportunities through activities and interactions. Yet, because workplace learning (WPL) is embedded in practice, it tends to be invisible. For clinical teachers and researchers, identifying what is learned and how to enhance learning is challenging. Video reflexive ethnography (VRE), an innovative observational methodology, can illuminate and enhance workplace learning processes. This study explored WPL using VRE to determine its insights and potential to enhance learning.
Methods: Conducted in a rural Australian GP setting, this study utilised VRE, a practice-based methodology. Participants, including medical students and GPs, engaged in video ethnography (Phase 1) and captured workplace learning encounters in brief video clips (Phase 2). Reflexive sessions followed, where participants appraised these videoed encounters (Phase 3). Framework analysis, informed by workplace learning theory, explored (1) the video excerpts to explore workplace learning affordances and (2) transcripts of the reflexive sessions to examine learners' and supervisors' learnings.
Results: Analysis identified how supervisors guided students' learning through debriefing, dialogue, and articulation of clinical reasoning. Students shared their insights about workplace learning processes and their roles. Supervisors (medical and allied health) deepened their understanding of supervision by reflecting on their own and others' practices through video analysis.
Discussion: This study suggests VRE is a feasible research approach that also enhances WPL. Observational and participatory research methods can make the tacit explicit and open to dialogue, offering valuable contributions to workplace learning research.
Details
- Title
- Enhancing Workplace Learning: A Video Reflexive Ethnography Study
- Creators
- Christy Noble Dr (Corresponding Author) - University of QueenslandRola Ajjawi (Author) - University of British ColumbiaLinda Furness (Author) - Rural Medical Education AustraliaBrendan Carrigan A/Prof (Author) - Rural Medical Education AustraliaMegan O’Shannessy - Rural Medical Education AustraliaAndrew Teodorczuk (Author) - Griffith UniversityStephen Billett Prof (Author) - Griffith University
- Publication Details
- The Clinical Teacher, Vol.22(3), pp.1-8
- Publisher
- Association for the Study of Medical Education and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Grant note
- This study was funded by a Toowoomba Hospital Foundation and Pure Land Learning Research Grant and with contributions from Rural Medical Education Australia.
- Identifiers
- 991013277909002368
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Author(s).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article