Partnering with Patients, Families, and Communities to Link Interprofessional Practice and Education
This Macy Conference that was held April 3 to 6, 2014, in Arlington, Virginia represented the Macy Foundation’s first formal initiative to bring together the worlds of health professions education, healthcare delivery, and patient and community advocacy. The conference was chaired by Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN and Martha Gaines, JD, LLM.
Ensuring an Effective Physician Workforce for America Recommendations for an Accountable Graduate Medical Education System
This report is from the first of two conferences sponsored by the Josia Macy Jr. Foundation focused on ensuring an effective physician workforce for America. This conference - which took place in October, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia - was chaired by Michael M.E. Johns, MD. This report includes the original papers which were commissioned for the conference:
VA Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education
In August 2010, the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) issued a request for proposals to establish Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education. Part of VA's New Models of Care initiative, the centers utilize VA primary care settings to develop and test innovative approaches to prepare physician residents and students, advanced practice nurse and undergraduate nursing students, and associated health trainees for primary care practice in the 21st Century. Thirty-seven VHA field facilities enthusiastically embraced this opportunity and competed for the Centers.
Stereotyping as a barrier to collaboration: Does interprofessional education make a difference?
This research was part of a Health Canada funded initiative developed to provide evidence about the effectiveness of interprofessional education (IPE) interventions to promote collaborative patient-centred care. Health professional students' ratings of health professions and the effect of IPE on those ratings were examined. Participants were divided into three groups (N=51); control, education, and practice site immersion.
Interdisciplinary training for rural care: Some North American experiences
This editorial emphasizes forging strong rural community-campus partnerships as a context for rural health professional education. An important aspect of this rural training initiative is the goal of simultaneously developing and enhancing rural health care delivery. The ways in which universal issues of rural life mix with local culture and health needs require training programs and delivery of services that are sensitive to these universals but are locally specific. In addition, there are major differences between urban- and rural-based interdisciplinary training experiences.
Collaborating Across Borders III (CAB III) “Interprofessional Collaboration: From Concept to Preparation to Practice”
This editorial describes a supplement of the Journal of Interprofessional Care (JIC) which contains the 380 abstracts accepted for Collaborating Across Borders III (CAB III), a biennial US-Canadian conference, which was held in Tucson, Arizona on November 19-21, 2011.
Interprofessional education: The tides of change redux
In an earlier editorial, Dr. Virginia Tilden wrote about the national momentum toward interprofessional education (IPE) and the “tides of change” that have rapidly increased opportunities for nurse leaders to shape this agenda. The common goal of improving patient care through IPE has forged a high level of collaboration among education and practice leaders, potential funders and government.
Supporting patients’ decision making: Interprofessional perspectives
This editorial provides an overview to a special issue of the Journal of Interprofessioinal Care which focuses on clinical decision making experiences in a variety of settings and illness circumstances, expanding the understanding of models of decision making proposed, identifying gaps, and ultimately helping to determine when, where, why and in what form shared decision making matters for better care.
DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr., MD: An interprofessional celebration
This editorial provides an overview to a special issue of the Journal of Interprofessioinal Care focusing on the work of Dr. DeWitt C. "Bud" Baldwin, Jr. Through the interview and (re)publication of a few of Dr. Baldwin's papers, we hope to acquaint the readership of the Journal with some of his seminal work, completed mostly in the late 1960s and 1970s, which, in many respects, is as relevant today as when originally written.
Interprofessional approaches to creating safe, high quality health care
This editorial provides an overview to a special issue of the Journal of Interprofessioinal Care focusing on interprofessional approaches to patient safety. The author asserts that the diversity of the contributions to this edition of the journal bears witness to the vibrancy of thinking and development aimed at providing safe, high quality, collaborative care for patients and clients around the globe.