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In the United States, there is a heightened national awareness of the central role of primary care in improving population health and managing cost growth.  Health care provider organizations, payers and policymakers need to identify preferred and sustainable primary care workforce models that draw on available knowledge to ensure access to high quality, cost-efficient health care that is to the satisfaction of patients and providers.  To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded Abt Associates and its partners, the MacColl Center for Health Care Innova

The Nurse Practitioner & Dentist Model for Primary Care, piloted at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, promotes interprofessional collaborative practice and interprofessional education by integrating primary care services provided by a nurse practitioner into an academic dental practice environment. This guide will introduce you to the model and to the steps you can take to implement it.

The Interprofessional Care for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions (IPCMCC) modules will prepare you to work in interprofessional teams to foster self-management by patients with multiple chronic conditions through the application of proven coaching strategies.

A comprehensive reference list of journal articles, book chapters, webinars, podcasts and press by and about the Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education 

What personal values characterize members of high performance teams?  What core principles are associated with high quality team-based health care? What is a person-centered perspective

With emphasis on a person-centered perspective, these and other questions are explored in this interactive eLearning module to illustrate the alignment of personal values and core principles with practice habits – competency behaviors – associated with high performance teams and teamwork in health care.

Interview with Madeline Schmitt published in NURSE.com, p. 36, May, 2015.

Interprofessional education pioneer Madeline Schmitt, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, nursing professor emerita at the University of Rochester in New York and a founding board member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative, has focused on processes and outcomes of teamwork in healthcare and IPE since the 1970s. She shares her insight on ways healthcare professionals can collaborate more closely.

ADEA Guest Editorial

http://www.adea.org/Blog.aspx?id=27252&blogid=20741

The American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s Code of Ethics is to be used as a guide for promoting and maintaining the highest standards of ethical behavior. The Code applies to all Recreational Therapy personnel. The term Recreational Therapy personnel includes Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists (CTRS), recreational therapy assistants and recreational therapy students. Acceptance of membership in the American Therapeutic Recreation Association commits a member to adherence to these principles.

Interest in interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice continue to grow (Frenk et al., 2010; Cox & Naylor,2013) but whether IPE improves clinical outcomes is uncertain.