Accepted Type
Oral
Code
OC1-1-1
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Research
Will the presenter be a:
Jr. Faculty (less than 5 years in practice)
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
Power to the people? A critical review of co-produced mental health professions education
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
By involving service users in health professions education - often referred to as coproduction, educators aspire to produce transformational change by centring the human, social and ethical dimensions of care through shifts in power between service providers and users. However, the literature on whether and how co-production achieves these ambitious goals remains under-developed. This gap is particularly pressing in mental health education, where power differences between service providers and service users are heightened. This critical literature review aimed to understand how power is addressed in co-produced mental health professional education.
Methods
Our team of service user educators, health professionals and education researchers conducted systematic searches in multiple databases not limited by study design, publication type or year. We screened 6162 titles and abstracts. Articles focusing on co-production in mental health professions education were included for full-text review. Of the 303 articles, 171 were selected and iteratively analyzed.
Results
Power figures prominently in this literature, but it is rarely made visible. Few articles explicitly use a theory of power to understand changing relations of service providers and users; the democratic and emancipatory values that underpin co-produced education are rarely reflected in the epistemology or methodology of studies about it; authors infrequently engage in reflexivity; and the larger social structures that shape and constrain co-produced education are rarely considered.
Conclusion
Our review highlights a crucial contradiction in this literature: while the potential benefits for shifting power are recognized, authors often fail to seriously contend with the complexities of power relations. This lack of critical analysis threatens the goals of co-production, paradoxically serving to reinforce existing power relations and structures in health professions education and beyond.
Keyword 1
coproduction
Keyword 2
mental health
Keyword 3
health professions education
Level of Training
General
Abstract Themes
Teaching and learning
Teaching and Learning
Collaborative/Peer to Peer
Additional Theme (First choice)
Postgraduate
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Csilla Kalocsai
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
