Challenges of Training Medical Assistants in an Outpatient Radiation Facility

Abstract

This paper intends to explore the training process of medical assistants. The main focus of this paper is to analyze the challenges that senior trainers must overcome to train the medical assistants in an effective way specifically in an Outpatient Radiation Facility. In order to understand the training requirements of Medical Assistant, it is important to understand the principles of training Adult Learner, which is known as Andragogy.

Challenges of Training Medical Assistants in an Outpatient Radiation Facility

Introduction

This paper intends to explore the training process of medical assistants. The main focus of this paper is to analyze the challenges that senior trainers must overcome to train the medical assistants in an effective way specifically in an Outpatient Radiation Facility. In order to understand the training requirements of Medical Assistant, it is important to understand the principles of training Adult Learner, which is known as Andragogy.

Discussion

Andragogy

The andragogy is presented as a teaching approach which by definition takes into account the characteristics of the adult learner. The issue of adult education is not new. For teachers of antiquity (Confucian, the Hebrew prophets, Aristotle, Plato, Cicero) training was a process of active investigation and not passive reception of content. Several teaching methods have been developed to actively engage their audience. Chinese and Hebrews invented the "case method" (describe problem situations, the analysis found satisfactory solutions), the Greeks invented dialogues and questions (questions to guide thinking) Romans advocated method of challenges (asserting a position and defend it by arguing) (Loue, 2011).

Lindeman established the meaning of adult education (1926), regarding the foundations of a methodological approach to adult education. "Adult education will be considered in terms of situations and not programs. In the traditional educational system, the opposite is true, the main actors are teachers and programs, students being only secondary elements.

Understanding the development process and the latest achievements of the concept of adult education at home and abroad, has strong foreign language skills and computer application ability to undertake independent study of adult education theory and practice, qualified for the professional and professional teaching and educational management, moral, intellectual, and physical development expertise (Bartle, 2008).

The characteristics of Adult Learners

- Need to know: adults are motivated to training when they discover the needs and interests they may meet through this training. The first duty of the teacher is to help learners become aware of their need to learn.

- Self-concept of the learner: Adults are aware of being responsible for their own decisions and their lives. They yearn deeply to identify themselves. The teacher's role is to initiate the process of investigation or an exchange rather than knowledge transfer.

- The role and experience of the learner experience is the biggest factor in adult learning, it is constructive to the identity of the person. Individual differences bring to the group richness and uniqueness of each individual.

- Willingness to learn: how adult learning is centered on the fact they focus their learning around life (or around a task or ...