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What attracts students to interprofessional education and other health care reform initiatives?.

What attracts students to interprofessional education and other health care reform initiatives?.

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

BACKGROUND: An international consensus has emerged that interprofessional education (IPE) and other health care reforms are necessary to address the increasing complexity of patients' health needs. Despite overwhelming barriers to its system-wide implementation, health professional students worldwide have organized themselves to promote IPE and have achieved considerable attention. This study seeks to offer insights into what attracts students to IPE and other health care reform initiatives and how advocates of change can stimulate this interest.

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Medical and nursing students attitudes towards interprofessional education in Nepal

Medical and nursing students attitudes towards interprofessional education in Nepal

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

In order to elicit the attitudes of final year medical and 3rd year undergraduate nursing students, towards interprofessional education (IPE), a survey using a 25-item questionnaire and a five-point Likert scale design was administered to a convenience sample of 60 students. In addition, two focus group discussions were carried out, one in each student group, using a topic guide. The findings suggest that the majority of the students were aware about the concept and importance of IPE.

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This is the closest I have come to being compared to a doctor: views of medical students on clinical clerkship in an Interprofessional Training Unit

This is the closest I have come to being compared to a doctor: views of medical students on clinical clerkship in an Interprofessional Training Unit

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

BACKGROUND: The need for interprofessional education has been apparent for decades and in 2004, we established the first Interprofessional Training Unit (ITU) in Denmark. Nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy students were in the ITU for its first 2 years and in 2006, medical students joined in. The students in collaboration run a ward with eight beds under the supervision of trained personnel.

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Finding common ground? Evaluating an intervention to improve teamwork among primary health-care professionals

Finding common ground? Evaluating an intervention to improve teamwork among primary health-care professionals

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

OBJECTIVE:

Multidisciplinary care has been shown as the most effective option for chronic disease. The aim of the Team-link study was to assess the effectiveness of an intervention to improve teamwork among general practitioners (GPs), practice staff and allied health professionals (AHPs). This paper describes changes to teamwork using qualitative data collected in the study.

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Interprofessionalism, personalization and care provision

Interprofessionalism, personalization and care provision

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

This UK-based empirical research investigates interprofessionalism and personalization to assess their potential to achieve quality care provision for people with long-term conditions. Governmental policies extol the virtues of interprofessionalism and personalization to drive modernization forward, however, change requires the commitment of health and social care professionals. Therefore the complexity of turning policy into practice requires continual review to ensure policy ideals become practice realities rather than speculative rhetoric.

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Use of a virtual environment to facilitate instruction of an interprofessional home assessment

Use of a virtual environment to facilitate instruction of an interprofessional home assessment

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

Technology has become a ubiquitous part of our society and is largely embedded in today's educational system. 3D virtual reality technology can be used to simulate environments and activities and may be used as an instructional technology. The purpose of this research was to better understand the utility of a web-based virtual environment as a teaching tool to represent clinical assessment and interventions in the home environment.

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Models of inter professional working for older people living at home: a survey and review of the local strategies of English health and social care statutory organisations

Models of inter professional working for older people living at home: a survey and review of the local strategies of English health and social care statutory organisations

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

BACKGROUND:

Most services provided by health and social care organisations for older people living at home rely on interprofessional working (IPW). Although there is research investigating what supports and inhibits how professionals work together, less is known about how different service models deliver care to older people and how effectiveness is measured. The aim of this study was to describe how IPW for older people living at home is delivered, enacted and evaluated in England.

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PRONTO training for obstetric and neonatal emergencies in Mexico

PRONTO training for obstetric and neonatal emergencies in Mexico

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, rating, and potential impact of PRONTO, a low-tech and high-fidelity simulation-based training for obstetric and neonatal emergencies and teamwork using the PartoPants low-cost birth simulator.

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