Validity of the scan of postgraduate educational environment domains (SPEED) questionnaire in a rural general practice training setting

Bunmi S. Malau-Aduli; Faith Alele; Carlos Fernando Collares; Carole Reeve; Cees Van der Vleuten; Marcy Holdsworth; Paula Heggarty; Peta-Ann Teague

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Validity of the scan of postgraduate educational environment domains (SPEED) questionnaire in a rural general practice training setting

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Validity of the scan of postgraduate educational environment domains (SPEED) questionnaire in a rural general practice training setting

Bunmi S. Malau-Aduli, Faith Alele, Carlos Fernando Collares, Carole Reeve, Cees Van der Vleuten, Marcy Holdsworth, Paula Heggarty and Peta-Ann Teague

BMC Medical Education, Vol.19, pp.1-10

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1455-8

PMCID: PMC6337755

PMID: 30654772

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quality of educational environment

GP registrars

rural postgraduate GP training

Background: The educational environment is critical to learning and is determined by social interactions. Trainee satisfaction translates to career commitment, retention and a positive professional attitude as well as being an important factor in assessing the impact of the training program. This study aimed to validate the Scan of Postgraduate Educational Environment Domain (SPEED) tool and assess its appropriateness in evaluating the quality of General Practice (GP) rural postgraduate educational environment. Methods: A questionnaire containing the 15-item SPEED tool was administered to GP registrars to examine their perceptions of the educational environment. Principal component analysis (PCA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were used to gather evidences of the validity of the instrument based on its internal structure. Additional validity evidence and reliability estimates were obtained using many-facet Rasch model analysis (MFRM). Results: The survey was completed by 351 registrars with a response rate of 60%. Parallel analysis performed using principal component analysis and exploratory factor analysis suggests that the SPEED tool is unidimensional. The MFRM analysis demonstrated an excellent degree of infit and outfit for items and training sites, but not for persons. The MFRM analysis also estimated high reliability levels for items (0.98), training sites (0.95) and persons within training sites (ranging from 0.87 to 0.93 in each training sites). Overall, the registrars agreed that the educational environment had high quality, with most (13 out of 15) of the items rated above 4 out of 5. Conclusions: This study demonstrated a high degree of validity and reliability of the SPEED tool for the measurement of the quality of the educational environment in a rural postgraduate GP training context. However, when applied in a new setting, the tool may not function as a multidimensional tool consistent with its theoretical grounding.

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Title: Validity of the scan of postgraduate educational environment domains (SPEED) questionnaire in a rural general practice training setting
Authors: Bunmi S. Malau-Aduli (Corresponding Author) - James Cook University
Faith Alele (Author) - James Cook University
Carlos Fernando Collares (Author) - Maastricht University
Carole Reeve (Author) - James Cook University
Cees Van der Vleuten (Author) - Maastricht University
Marcy Holdsworth (Author) - James Cook University
Paula Heggarty (Author) - James Cook University
Peta-Ann Teague (Author) - James Cook University
Publication details: BMC Medical Education, Vol.19, pp.1-10
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd.
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-019-1455-8
ISSN: 1472-6920
PMID: 30654772; PMC6337755
Copyright note: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Organisation Unit: School of Health - Public Health
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99967596802621
Output Type: Journal article

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