Interprofessional education in anatomy: Learning together in medical and nursing training
Teamwork and the interprofessional collaboration of all health professions are a guarantee of patient safety and highly qualified treatment in patient care. In the daily clinical routine, physicians and nurses must work together, but the education of the different health professions occurs separately in various places, mostly without interrelated contact. Such training abets mutual misunderstanding and cements professional protectionism, which is why interprofessional education can play an important role in dismantling such barriers to future cooperation.
Training osteopathic geriatric academicians: Impact of a model geriatric residency program
The need for osteopathic geriatric academic leaders who are educators and researchers is well recognized. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine's Geriatric Residency program, a federally funded Faculty Training Project in Geriatric Medicine and Dentistry, has served as a model program in the osteopathic medical profession since its inception in 1989.
An evaluation of interdisciplinary team training in hospice care
Medicare requires all hospice agencies to conduct regular interdisciplinary team meetings to facilitate collaboration within the team and to coordinate holistic plans of patient care. This study takes a preliminary look at hospice agencies' preparation of interdisciplinary team members for collaboration within team meetings and aims to explain hospices' strategies for training and assessing the collaborative strength of interdisciplinary team meetings.
The University of Arkansas’ Five‐Pillar Plan for an Institutional Triple Aim Culture
The Triple Aim was originally articulated in 2008 as a means to transform health care through (1) improving the patient care experience; (2) improving the health of the population; and (3) reducing the cost of care.
The Office of interprofessional education at the University of Arkansas Medical School has aligned its vision, initiatives, and resources to help move toward meeting the Triple Aim for our institution, our State, and our Nation. The Triple Aim is the unifying principle upon which all other initiatives within our diverse institution are based.
The triple aim: Care, health, and cost
Improving the U.S. health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care. Preconditions for this include the enrollment of an identified population, a commitment to universality for its members, and the existence of an organization (an "integrator") that accepts responsibility for all three aims for that population.
Applying a Multidisciplinary Approach Using the TeamSTEPPS Communication and Teamwork Methodology While Debriefing a Critical Event Simulation
This poster presentation details an innovative safety program which incorporates a multidisciplinary approach to team debriefing and high-fidelity simulation-based training during a simulated critical event (shoulder dystocia). This simulation program includes all providers (physicians, midwives, nurses, and residents) associated with our obstetric unit and reinforces the concept of patient safety through practiced communication and teamwork.
Transdisciplinary teamwork simulation in obstetrics-gynecology health care education
This program evaluation was designed to assess whether a transdisciplinary teamwork simulation experience improves collaborative attitudes among women's health students toward the goals of reducing medical errors and improving patient outcomes. This program evaluation used a pretest-posttest comparative design to measure changes in collaborative attitudes among 35 multidisciplinary women's health students before and after atransdisciplinary simulation experience. Collaborative attitudes were measured by the Team Attitudes Questionnaire.
Using SBAR to communicate falls risk and management in inter-professional rehabilitation teams
This study implemented and evaluated the adapted Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) tool for use on two inter-professional rehabilitation teams for the specific priority issue of falls prevention and management. SBAR has been widely studied in the literature, but rarely in the context of rehabilitation and beyond nurse-physician communication. In phase one, the adapted SBAR tool was implemented on twoteams with a high falls incidence over a six-month period.
Interprofessional Education: Collaboration or Competition? A Tale of Two Experiences
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A method to enhance student teams in palliative care: Piloting the McMaster-Ottawa Team Observed Structured Clinical Encounter
BACKGROUND: The need for palliative and end-of-life care (PEOLC) education in prelicensure education has been identified. PEOLC requires effective collaborative teamwork. The competencies required for effective collaborative teamwork are only now emerging and methods to evaluate them must be developed.