Advancing Compassionate, Person- and Family-Centered Care Through Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Practice
Compassion is essential for effective collaboration among healthcare professionals, patients and families. Conventional wisdom and evidence support the importance of compassionate healthcare. So why then are the concepts and skills related to empathy and compassion not routinely taught, modeled and assessed across the continuum of learning and practice?
The State of the Science of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
This presentation, delivered by Barbara Brandt, PhD, as part of the American Medical Association's Accelerating Change in Medical Education advisory committee, outlines the evolution in thinking about teams and collaboration and offers an in-depth overview of the state of the science of interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
Beyond Flexner: The Role of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
This presentation, delivered by Barbara Brandt, PhD, at Beyond Flexner 2015, discusses the evolution in thinking about teams and collaboration, introduces the "Nexus" and outlines the patient-centered curriculum.
About Beyond Flexner 2015
There Is No “I” in Teamwork in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Defining Teamwork Competencies for Academic Practice
Evidence suggests that teamwork is essential for safe, reliable practice. Creating health care teams able to function effectively in patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), practices that organize care around the patient and demonstrate achievement of defined quality care standards, remains challenging. Preparing trainees for practice in interprofessional teams is particularly challenging in academic health centers where health professions curricula are largely siloed.
The Use of PBL in an Interprofessional Education Course for Health Care Professional Students
A problem-based learning (PBL) framework was utilized in a series of six interprofessional team seminars (IPTS) for postbaccalaureate students from seven health professions. The goal of IPTS was to develop a collaborative practice-ready workforce prepared to respond to patient care needs through use of concrete examples, skills development, critical thinking, and problem solving in safe, faculty-facilitated small groups. The collaborative nature of PBL closely correlates with teaching methodologies of the IPTS series.
Resource Brief: Assessing Attitudes Toward Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
Learner attitudes toward collaboration with other professions are critical in the development and implementation of interprofessional educational activities. Attitude assessment provides baseline information, determines needs and can be used to evaluate impact of learning.
This guide, developed by the National Center, lists and links to resources which can help organizations assess attitudes.
Resource Brief: Managing Conflict in Teams
Conflict in teams can impact care quality, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and morale through decreased and/or dysfunctional communication. Although conflict is a natural part of life and work it is often unmanaged or mismanaged and can result in compromised care.
This guide, developed by the National Center, lists and links to resources that can help organizations address and manage conflict in interprofessional teams.
Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: Welcome to the "New" Forty-Year Old Field
Since 1999, the United States (U.S.) healthcare delivery system has been transforming in profound and fundamental ways.
Barbara Brandt's Keynote Address at University of Wisconsin Summit
The Interprofessional Health Council (IPHC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a student organization with representation from 13 different health professional programs on campus. Funded in part by a generous grant from Target, IPHC recently hosted its annual educational conference. Over 100 students and faculty attended "Collaborating for Care: Interprofessional Health Summit 2015," which featured Barbara Brandt, PhD, Director of the National Center, as a keynote speaker. Watch Dr. Brandt's address at the link below.
Creating the Evidence through Comparative Effectiveness Research for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice by Deploying a National Intervention Network and a National Data Repository
There is currently a resurgence of interest in interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) and its potential to positively impact health outcomes at both the patient level and population level, healthcare delivery, and health professions education. This resurgence of interest led to the creation of the National Center on Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and Education in October 2012.