Clinical Pharmacy: An Example of Interprofessional Education in the Late 1960s and 1970s
In 1968, the associate editor of Modern Hospital announced that clinical pharmacy was the “hot new trend” in pharmacy circles. Pharmacy educators developed the concept of clinical pharmacy—and launched the first clinical pharmacy programs—in the mid-1960s as a new type of pharmacy practice that was patient oriented, rather than drug product oriented.
Setting a Research Agenda for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice in the Context of United States Health System Reform
Interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (CP) have been prolific areas of inquiry exploring research questions mostly concerned with local program and project assessment. The actual sphere of influence of this research has been limited. Often discussed separately, this paper places IPE and CP in the same conceptual space. The interface of these form a nexus where new knowledge creation may be facilitated.
Developing a School of Health Professions
A set of several documents describing the work by Bruce E. Spivey and Gary M. Arsham in the 1970s to create a School of Health Professions in collaboration with the University of the Pacific at what is now the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
The School of Health Professions was designed to address commonly recognized deficiencies in the education of health professionals and in the contemporary delivery of health care. The School focuses on primary health care, interprofessional education and care delivery, and self-paced curricula.
The Transformation of Academic Health Centers
The Transformation of Academic Health Centers: The Institutional Challenge to Improve Health and Well-Being in Healthcare’s Changing Landscape presents the direct knowledge and vision of accomplished academic leaders whose unique positions as managers of some of the most complex academic and business enterprises make them expert contributors.
GT-OSVE: Geriatric Transitions Objective Structured Video Examination
The Geriatric Transitions Objective Structured Video Examination (GT-OSVE) is a series of 3 video cases depicting the same hypothetical patient undergoing transitions of care in different locations: hospital to home, skilled nursing facility to home, and home to an assisted living facility. The GT-OSVE may be used as an evaluative tool to assess trainees' ability formulate transitions plans and to assess team functioning. Alternatively, the GT-OSVE may be used as an educational tool for teaching about transitions of care.
A presentation with the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Study Chair on Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes: Applying Global Ideas to Local Contexts
A growing body of work has shown that interprofessional practice and education (IPE) can improve learners’ perceptions of interprofessional practice (IPP) and enhance collaborative knowledge and skills. In contrast, establishing a direct cause-and-effect relationship between IPE and patient, population and system outcomes has proven more difficult – not unlike other health professional educational interventions.
Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education (IPE) on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes
Over the past half century, there have been ebbs and flows of interest in linking what is now called interprofessional education (IPE) with interprofessional collaboration and team-based care. Whereas considerable research has focused on student learning, only recently have researchers begun to look beyond the classroom and beyond learning outcomes for the impact of IPE on such issues as patient safety, patient and provider satisfaction, quality of care, health promotion, population health, and the cost of care.
Teamwork and Collaboration Bibliography
This annotated bibliography from the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Institute provides an overview of resources that have contributed to the discussion surrounding interprofessional practice and education. Dating from 1997 to 2013, the abstract and references for each resource are included.
Kansas Preceptor Toolkit Webinar
The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and the National Center have teamed up to develop a toolkit for preceptors. Resources were designed for providers who wish to transform their practices into exemplary interprofessional collaborative practice and interprofessional education sites for patients, students, and other healthcare practitioners.
Implementation of interprofessional learning activities in a professional practicum: The emerging role of technology.
To prepare future healthcare professionals to collaborate effectively, many universities have developed interprofessional education programs (IPE). Till date, these programs have been mostly courses or clinical simulation experiences. Few attempts have been made to pursue IPE in healthcare clinical settings. This article presents the results of a pilot project in which interprofessional learning activities (ILAs) were implemented during students' professional practicum and discusses the actual and potential use of informatics in the ILA implementation.
