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Student leadership in interprofessional education: benefits, challenges and implications for educators, researchers and policymakers

Student leadership in interprofessional education: benefits, challenges and implications for educators, researchers and policymakers

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Submitted by John Gilbert on Apr 9, 2014 - 3:02pm CDT

Context: Interprofessional collaboration is gaining increasing prominence as a team-based approach to health care delivery that synergistically maximises the strengths of each health professional to enhance patient care, decrease medical errors and optimise efficiency. The often neglected role that student leaders have in preparing their peers, as the health professionals of the future, for collaboration in health care should not be overlooked.

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Abraham Flexner and the roots of interprofessional education

Abraham Flexner and the roots of interprofessional education

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Submitted by John Gilbert on Apr 9, 2014 - 2:32pm CDT

This paper explores the culture underlying the practices of physicians and other health care providers in the 20th century and implications for interprofessional education for collaborative practice in the 21st century. Today's practice of medicine flows from the 1920s work of Dr. Abraham Flexner recommending that North American medical schools introduce rigor and consistency in teaching, moving them from private, for-profit, somewhat ad hoc institutions to university affiliation employing physicians dedicated to teaching and research.

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Collaborating across borders: an American-Canadian dialogue on interprofessional health education

Collaborating across borders: an American-Canadian dialogue on interprofessional health education

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Submitted by John Gilbert on Apr 9, 2014 - 2:26pm CDT

For more than 35 years, interprofessional collaboration across the health and human service professions has been promoted as an important means to advance patient- or client-centered practice. Evidence demonstrates that collaborative care in certain circumstances can be more effective and efficient than other models. Over the past decade, in response to national calls to action, American and Canadian health and human service professionals and educators have renewed their focus on interprofessional education (IPE).

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Interprofessional Education for Collaborative, Patient-Centred Practice

Interprofessional Education for Collaborative, Patient-Centred Practice

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Submitted by John Gilbert on Apr 8, 2014 - 4:06pm CDT

Much that has been written about interprofessional education (IPE) and the interprofessional team has concentrated on two or at most three professions, primarily medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Educational programs described in the literature tend to focus on activities involving students, practitioners or both.Very little has been written about the structural changes that need to be made within universities, colleges and the healthcare industry such that IPE becomes a joint responsibility across a number of jurisdictions that may then effectively influence institutional practice.

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Interprofessional learning and higher education structural barriers

Interprofessional learning and higher education structural barriers

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Submitted by John Gilbert on Apr 8, 2014 - 3:53pm CDT

Structural changes need to be made within universities such that interprofessional education for patient-centred collaborative practice becomes a responsibility that crosses faculty jurisdictions and is accepted as the responsibility of all associated health and human service programs. In communities, the patient or client is the centre of professional attention requiring care that goes beyond the skill and scope of any one profession.

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Editorial - All Together Better Health

Editorial - All Together Better Health

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Submitted by John Gilbert on Apr 8, 2014 - 3:40pm CDT

Interprofessional activists enjoy ever more opportunities to exchange experience between countries thanks to electronic communications, study visits, conferences and, of course, this Journal. An international organisation to promote such exchange has, however, until now been conspicuously lacking.

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Preparing students for interprofessional teamwork in health care

Preparing students for interprofessional teamwork in health care

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Submitted by John Gilbert on Apr 8, 2014 - 3:25pm CDT

In response to community demand, The Office of the Coordinator of Health Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Canada developed a two-day Interprofessional Team Building workshop and piloted it twice. The workshops included faculty and students with clinical experience from nine different health and human service programmes. The design of the workshop was drawn from team-building theory and exercises used in business education. It was augmented by clinical examples and case-based discussions.

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A scoping review of interprofessional collaborative practice and education using the lens of the Triple Aim

A scoping review of interprofessional collaborative practice and education using the lens of the Triple Aim

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Submitted by Barbara F. Brandt on Apr 7, 2014 - 8:45am CDT

The Triple Aim unequivocally connects interprofessional healthcare teams to the provision of better healthcare services that would eventually lead to improved health outcomes. This review of the interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice empirical literature from 2008 to 2013 focused on the impact of this area of inquiry on the outcomes identified in the Triple Aim.

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Transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training: WHO Education Guidelines 2013

Transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training: WHO Education Guidelines 2013

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Submitted by National Center... on Apr 4, 2014 - 3:19pm CDT

These guidelines call for new approaches in health professionals’ education. Approaches are needed that transform systems and encourage the move away from the traditional focus on tertiary care hospitals to initiatives that foster community engagement. The guidelines recommendations support and advocate for implementation considerations in efforts to involve communities and countries collectively for this transformational change in health professionals’ education.

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How to build high-quality interprofessional collaboration and education in your hospital: the IP-COMPASS tool

How to build high-quality interprofessional collaboration and education in your hospital: the IP-COMPASS tool

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Submitted by Ivy Oandasan on Apr 4, 2014 - 2:13pm CDT

Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important contributor to ensuring interprofessional collaboration and, ultimately, improving the quality of health care. However, there is a gap in available resources on critical success factors for implementing intentional interprofessional learning experiences. The Interprofessional Collaborative Organizational Map and Preparedness Assessment (IP-COMPASS) is a quality improvement framework that provides a structured process to help health care organizations become better prepared to offer IPE.

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