Introducing Collaborative Care: Teaching Basics of Interprofessional Education in an Online Environment

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Submitted by National Center... on Jan 31, 2017 - 10:25am CST

Resource Type: 
Book Chapter

This chapter describes the development and implementation of an innovative course in interprofessional education (IPE), which ensures a large number and variety of health professions students have the appropriate foundations to collaborate. A description of the institution and the process of implementing interprofessional education is followed by a presentation of challenges and then solutions to address them in the creation of the course. Future research avenues in interprofessional education will be explored. This chapter will provide practical application of concepts for other institutions attempting to design and implement introductory interprofessional education for large numbers of students.

Author(s): 
Joy Doll
Anna Maio
Ann Ryan Haddad
Margaret Jergenson
Karen A. Paschal
Katie Packard
Meghan Potthoff
Kathryn N. Huggett
Martha Todd
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