Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE)- Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is "Transforming Out-Patient Care" (TOPC) by creating and enabling physicians, nurse practitioners and associated health learners to lead and participate in patient-centered interprofessional teams. The mission recognizes the importance of a comprehensive care model and the need for care transitions across venues (e.g. coordination of acute care to out-patient environment). The site has developed a competency based curriculum to support this model guided by CoEPCE/enterprise core domains.
Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE)- VA Puget Sound Healthcare System
The Seattle CoEPCE is working to advance education of interdisciplinary teams and develop clinical leaders who deliver patient-centered care, transform delivery of healthcare services, and improve health outcomes. A central focus of the Seattle CoEPCE is to develop skills needed for collaborative primary care practice during training.
Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE)- Boise VA Medical Center
Formal training, workplace learning and reflection drive the Boise Center of Excellence’s team-based primary care curricula. This interprofessional curriculum supports several disciplines, particularly nurse practitioner, internal medicine and pharmacy residents, and psychology interns and post-doctoral fellows. To deepen trainees’ understanding of interdependent roles and optimize preparation for practice in a transforming healthcare system, the Center also fosters multidisciplinary, continuous quality improvement (CQI) projects.
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Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE)- San Francisco VA Medical Center
The San Francisco Center and Education for Patient Aligned Care Teams (EDPACT) is working to develop and implement a model of patient-centered, interprofessional education. The goal is to bring together teams of trainees, physicians, advanced practice and other nurses and associated health care providers to build shared knowledge and incorporate design principles for optimal workplace learning.
Taking the lead: Community pharmacists' perception of their role potential within the primary care team
BACKGROUND: Patient-focused care provided by an interprofessional team has long been presented as the preferred method of primary care delivery. Community pharmacists should and can provide leadership for many clinical and managerial activities within the primary care team.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent to which community pharmacists are prepared to be members of the health care team, and to assess their support for general expansion of clinical responsibilities.
The use of smartphones in general and internal medicine units: A boon or a bane to the promotion of interprofessional collaboration?
Effective communication and coordination are critical components for improving collaborative care delivery among different healthcare providers who work in mobile and time-pressured environments. Increasingly, healthcare providers are exploring alternative communication technologies to help bridge the temporal and spatial issues that are often inherent in the clinical communication conundrum.
Reducing barriers to interprofessional training: Promoting
The need to train health professionals who can work across disciplines is essential for effective, competent, and culturally sensitive health care delivery. By its very nature, the provision of health service requires communication and coordination between practitioners. However, preparation for interdisciplinary practice within the health care setting is rare. The authors argue that the primary reason students are not trained across disciplines is related to the diverse cultural structures that guide and moderate health education environments.
Interprofessional Education: A Theoretical Orientation Incorporating Profession-Centrism and Social Identity Theory
It is clear that in order to improve health for our citizens, our health work force must be team-focused and collaboration-ready at the time of their graduation. Shortages of adequately trained health care workers must be addressed if we are to reduce the global disease burden for HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, infant mortality, childhood preventable disease, among other global health woes.
Putting the Mouth Back in the Head: HEENT to HEENOT
Improving oral health is a leading population health goal; however, curricula preparing health professionals have a dearth of oral health content and clinical experiences. We detail an educational and clinical innovation transitioning the traditional head, ears, eyes, nose, and throat (HEENT) examination to the addition of the teeth, gums, mucosa, tongue, and palate examination (HEENOT) for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of oral-systemic health.
All Together Better Health VII- Plenary Session- Interprofessionalism in a Global Context
A global panel of representatives from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australasia, Japan, Eastern and African countries, and the World Health Organization will engage in a moderated dialogue covering top issues related to interprofessional education and practice from their respective regions.
This plenary session features:
