"It's about creating a network of peer-practitioners who are working on these issues around the country, elevating the successes and sharing them with others.
This strategy is carefully linked to prior understanding, scaffolded by peer support and practitioner advice, and ultimately aimed at applying the knowledge to real-world phenomena.
They need a multiple year internship period with coaching by peers and experienced practitioners.
Furthermore, it was recommended that hospitals should utilise external peer-review by practitioners working in other NHS trusts during the development phase of antimicrobial policies and guidelines.
In this study, we wanted to assess the effects on antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections of a multifaceted intervention based on academic detailing by peers to general practitioners in existing continuing medical education groups.
6 Peer groups of general practitioners (GPs) share professional competence, experience and social role.
As the next generation of practitioners, my peers and I can stand up to these systemic impositions on practice.
A second pedagogical premise is that students can be effectively facilitated to learn by participating in the daily activities of their community of practitioners, where peers, role models and mentors scaffold or extend learning through guidance, modelling and discussion [ 28, 29].
We noted other people, such as relatives, friends, peers, the general practitioner, and specialist nurses, who helped the participant manage their conditions and also noted the technologies (such as blood glucose meter, insulin pump, telephone, and internet) that they or their carers used alongside or, more usually, instead of HealthSpace.
The intervention was delivered by specially trained general practitioners acting as peer academic detailers.
The programme of withdrawal-oriented treatment combines groupwork, nicotine replacement therapy (obtained on prescription from general practitioners) and ongoing peer support throughout.
