Resource Center

At the University of Nevada School of Medicine, medical students were introduced to community resources in their sophomore year. Studies strongly suggest that the physician who has some knowledge about a community agency, either through direct communication or through a patient's positive experience, tends to refer other patients to that resource.

In 1974, the University of Nevada, Reno, received a special health careers opportunity grant to fund the Health Careers for American Indians Program (HCAIP).  Aimed at increasing the number of Native American students enrolled in the university's model interdisciplinary health sciences program, HCAIP concentrated its first efforts on recruiting promosing high school students into a variety of health careers requiring university level training by means of a 6-week Summer Health Careers Program.

At the Forsyth Dental Infirmary, Boston, the orthodontist, pediatrician, nutritionist and child psychiatrist collaborate to promote a more comprehensive approach to the patient with malocclusion of the teeth. Each discipline contributes a special facet to the total clinical assessment of the child. The diagnostic conference serves as an important educational experience in the program of the postgraduate fellows in orthodontics.

Achieving the goals of health care reform – described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as the “Triple Aim” – will place new demands on the health care workforce. Interprofessional team-based care, quality and process improvement, and population health management are not skills that have been emphasized in traditional health professions education and training.

This is a mixed methods study to examine learning outcomes on Physician Assistant students of a longitudinal geriartics IPE curriculum for 5 health professions.

In September 2013, 84 fourth-year dental students, 168 second-year medical students, and 84 nurse practitioner and nurse-midwifery students gathered in small groups at the New York Simulation Center, operated by the NYU School of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center, to learn from one another and gain a stronger understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each profession.

Introduction: Teaching strategy for nursing students needs to be varied for the future preparation and to increase confidence level in delivering quality care to patients. Interprofessional learning (IPL) is a way to encourage collaboration among health professional teams that will drive them to collaborate with, from and about other professions and thus, it allow students to have greater knowledge. Currently, many students are unable to learn together during clinical posting due to professional boundaries.

In this introduction to a special issue of Michener magazine, the author highlights the importance of breakthroughs at the Institute.

Interprofessional education needs focal points, in theory and in research - a strong theory that will allow the evaluation of parameters associated with interprofessional collaboration in education and practice, and that involves a mix of health and human service professions both within the university, and with community partners.

The Romanow Commission (November, 2002) may be an event of the past, but in a number of different venues the work needed to set in place changes recommended by Romanow is just beginning. The most visible is the formation of the national Health Council, announced in December 2003, to be chaired by Michael Decter.