The AEP is the premier resource teaching the healthcare practitioner within a peer-to-peer learning venue resulting in improved patient care.
Clinical Competence Solutions’ AEP:
- uides toward the most effective educational tools,
- Uses a step-by-step process identifying competency concerns,
- Provides an in-depth evaluation process that is essential in understanding how to prioritize and dissect the educational issues,
- Contains effective coaching tools to guide the healthcare practitioner mentor,
- Allows tracking of progress being made and celebrate success.
Using internal resources means that extraneous costs are reduced. A trusted staff member or community-based mentor guides the learning process. For healthcare organizations, use of an internal mentor supports a positive resolution to any staff situation. The organization can control and direct the educational process.
By removing the costs and time associated with seeking the assistance of external education programs, AEP provides its services in a timely, cost-effective manner.
Integration of Trusted Learning Methods
AEP combines accepted learning strategies with specifically identified medical education processes to ensure success. It reflects current beliefs about effective approaches to medical education. Its strategies acknowledge the unique conditions and demands of the medical practice environment. The AEP works with the referring organization and healthcare practitioner to develop the individualized educational process. By focusing on specifically targeted areas of patient care, the healthcare professional can ultimately improve patient care while resolving professional knowledge gaps.
Providing referring organizations and healthcare practitioners with an effective remediation resource that is easy to implement, manage, and monitor.
AEP Results in Improved Patient Care
AEP’s core concepts emphasize resolution of patient care concerns. AEP’s structure requires healthcare practitioners to reveal educational enhancements through improved patient care delivery. This behavior change is underscored throughout the educational process. The healthcare practitioner is continuously challenged to correlate new learning with actual patient care management. A mentor determines when acquired skills are demonstrated through improved patient care.
Cost-Containment
Money, time, community outcry....these are just a few of the costs incurred due to quality assurance problems. Using community-based mentors with AEP’s process has the following benefits:
- Extraneous cost expenditures are minimized,
- Eliminates the time devoted to locating and debating the merits of outside learning options,
- Community concerns are tempered with the knowledge that the healthcare practitioner is being coached/mentored through the education process.
AEP Benefits
- Allows healthcare organizations to guide educational process, quality, and timelines,
- Assures confidentiality,
- Teaches peer practitioners how to be a mentor,
- Supports and encourages healthcare practitioner autonomy in learning,
- Contains tracking and measurement methods to monitor improvement.
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