Enhancing Health Professions Education through Technology: Building a Continuously Learning Health System
In April 2015, the Macy Foundation hosted a conference which issued a series of recommendations for health professions schools and healthcare organizations around the use of existing and emerging technologies to enhance health professions education and build a “continuously learning health system.”
Oral Health: An Essential Component of Primary Care
Oral health is essential for healthy development and healthy aging, yet nationwide there is an unacceptably high burden of oral disease.This new white paper makes the case for incorporating preventive oral healthcare as a component of routine medical care and structuring referrals to dentistry.
Community Pharmacy and Blood Pressure Control
Widespread, effective identification and management of uncontrolled hypertension remains elusive, undermining our ability to reduce the impact of stroke and heart disease. The statistics are widely appreciated: roughly 30% of North Americans have hypertension and almost half are uncontrolled. Nearly 1,000 people a day die from complications attributed to hypertension, and direct and indirect costs amount to $46 billion a year in the United States alone.
Student Empathy Levels Across 12 Medical and Health Professions: An Interventional Study
Evidence is emerging that clinician empathy improves clinical outcomes, but diminishes with experience. More empathetic clinicians get better results; but more experienced clinicians tend to show less empathy.
Interprofessional Anatomy Education in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Perspectives from Students and Teachers
There is increasing recognition of multiprofessional learning in anatomy and its role in medical and healthcare professions. This study utilized two components to investigate anatomy interprofessional education (AIPE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland. First, a survey involving qualitative and quantitative components asked Heads of Anatomy to report on their institutions’ uptake of AIPE.
Milestones and Entrustable Professional Activities: The Key to Practically Translating Competencies for Interprofessional Education?
Competency-based education and practice have become foundational for developing interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaboration. There has been a plethora of competencies developed in these areas recently, both at individual institutions and nationally; however, their effective integration and thus potential has not been fully realized educationally.
Importance of Interprofessional Education, Practice and Research in the Pharmacy Curriculum in the Era of Globalization
The profession of pharmacy has evolved gradually for more than a century and has seen many educational challenges and reforms. The pharmacy curriculum is science-based and varies widely in different parts of the world in both content and outcomes. The global pharmacy curriculum could be broadly categorized as product/industry-focused or patient-focused. In the United States (US), the baccalaureate degree has been replaced with the entry level Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) curriculum.
Resource Brief: Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care
As health care reform proceeds and primary care is transformed, many practices are considering integration of behavioral health services to improve access and quality. In order to work effectively in primary care settings, behavioral health providers must adopt practice patterns and skill sets different from those used in traditional specialty mental health settings. Beyond the challenge of helping providers adapt their skill sets, practices must also address obstacles to reimbursement.
Resource Brief: The Triple C: Compassionate, Collaborative Care
In fall 2014, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, in collaboration with the Josiah Macy Jr.
True Grit: Promoting Student Resiliency Through Interprofessional Education (IPE)
Health professional students must learn how to be resilient. Today’s global society is increasingly diverse and complex requiring resiliency to successfully navigate challenges in the workplace. Healthcare students learn core knowledge, skills, attitudes and values and are asked to quickly apply learning to a clinical or functional setting. Their ability to move from receiving direct instruction to clinical practice is facilitated through supervised interprofessional training in simulation, experiential opportunities, and co-curricular settings that develop practitioner re
