Quality-assured online selection for securing future health professionals

有质量保证的在线选择，确保未来的医疗专业人员

• 批准号: 56053
• 金额: $ 8.69万
• 依托单位: SAMMI-SELECT LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=56053
• 关键词: Quality; assured; online; selection; securing

Health Service providers are under increasing pressure to secure a sustainable workforce during the COVID-19 crisis. But social distancing has prohibited personal contact and therefore traditional face-to-face interview methods for selection to job roles and training are no longer possible. The impact is potentially catastrophic for maintaining the workforce at 1.2 million NHS employees as well as for developing it through universities who interview over 100,000 applicants annually for medicine, nursing, midwifery and allied health professional education programmes.NHS employers and universities have used a face-to-face (F2F) interview method called multiple mini interviews (MMIs) for healthcare selection processes for the last 15 years. MMIs offer a robust approach designed to minimise bias and increase diversity such that they are endorsed by Health Education England.MMIs comprise a series of 6 to 12 stations each lasting 5 to 10-minutes with different interviewers, who have no prior knowledge of candidates, in a timed circuit. At each station, candidates answer scenarios based on real-life events that assess pre-defined attributes and values.MMIs are not currently feasible with the need to remove personal contact resulting in forced acceptance of, and over-night adaptation to, online technologies like videoconferencing. Absent online MMIs, various improvised approaches have been necessarily adopted to ensure the essential continuity of candidate selection for NHS service provision and healthcare student training.Sammi-Select are developing an automated version of MMIs in an existing Innovate UK project for leading enterprises. The proposed project would strengthen this activity, resulting in a brand new capability demonstrating key parts of the core Sammi-Select system integrated with online videoconferencing tools. The result will be a unique technology capable of addressing the current healthcare selection crisis.To ensure fitness for purpose, the Sammi-Select team will engage through its extensive networks and contacts across healthcare professions including UK Medical Schools Council, Royal College of Midwives, European Midwives Association, Council of Deans for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals and Health Education England. Several test-bed sites are established across the UK and US are also committed to supporting Sammi-Select.The proposed project would significantly leverage, and provide additionality to, prior public investment in the existing project. Maintaining essential health service provision has never been more pressing, and the proposed technology would enable candidate selection for the long term in a robust and quality assured way.The extension for impact funding will support sustained recruitment to healthcare professions through accelerating and de-risking readiness of two videoconference plugins - for Zoom and Teams - to augment an extant online interview intelligence system. Scope and range of user testing will be extended across a multiplicity of test-bed sites that have already keenly engaged with the project. This will leverage likelihood of uptake thereby easing pressures in recruiting that continue to be keenly felt due to social distancing restrictions.

在2019冠状病毒病危机期间，卫生服务提供者面临越来越大的压力，需要确保可持续的劳动力队伍。但社交距离禁止了个人接触，因此传统的面对面面试方法无法选择工作角色和培训。对于维持120万NHS员工队伍，以及通过每年面试超过10万名医学、护理、助产和相关卫生专业教育项目申请者的大学来发展这一队伍来说，这一影响可能是灾难性的。在过去的15年里，NHS雇主和大学在医疗保健选择过程中使用了一种面对面（F2F）的面试方法，称为多次迷你面试（MMIs）。mmi提供了一种强有力的方法，旨在最大限度地减少偏见，增加多样性，因此得到了英格兰健康教育的认可。mmi包括一系列6至12个站点，每个站点持续5至10分钟，由不同的采访者组成，他们事先不了解候选人。在每个站点，考生都要根据真实事件回答评估预定义属性和价值观的场景。mmi目前并不可行，因为需要消除个人接触，导致被迫接受和一夜之间适应视频会议等在线技术。如果没有在线mmi，必须采用各种临时方法来确保国民保健服务提供和保健学生培训的候选人选择的基本连续性。Sammi-Select正在现有的创新英国项目中为领先企业开发自动化版本的mmi。拟议的项目将加强这项活动，从而产生一种全新的能力，展示与联机视像会议工具相结合的核心Sammi-Select系统的关键部分。其结果将是一种独特的技术，能够解决当前的医疗选择危机。为了确保健康，Sammi-Select团队将通过其广泛的网络和医疗保健专业人士的联系，包括英国医学院委员会，皇家助产士学院，欧洲助产士协会，护理院长委员会，助产和联合卫生专业人员以及英格兰健康教育。在英国和美国建立的几个试验台站点也致力于支持Sammi-Select。拟议的项目将大大增加对现有项目先前公共投资的杠杆作用，并提供额外的投资。维持基本保健服务的提供从未像现在这样紧迫，拟议的技术将使候选人能够以稳健和有质量保证的方式长期选择。影响资金的延长将通过加快Zoom和Teams两个视频会议插件的准备和降低风险来支持医疗保健专业人员的持续招聘，以增强现有的在线面试情报系统。用户测试的范围和范围将扩展到已经与项目密切相关的多个测试平台站点。这将利用吸收的可能性，从而缓解由于社交距离限制而继续感受到的招聘压力。