Effective Intercultural Communication for Health Professionals
This online, self-paced course is for healthcare providers who wish to examine aspects of intercultural communication that may present obstacles in healthcare settings, and develop strategies for effective intercultural communication that can be used in clinical practice. It is intended to help you explore and reflect upon your own cultural values and beliefs about healthcare, and your relationship with patients from all cultures.
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The significance of cross-cultural communication in healthcare
Cultural Competence for Health Professionals
This online, self-paced course is designed for health professions students (including dental students) to provide a foundation in cultural competence and strategies to appropriately address cross-cultural issues in clinical settings. The course will prepare you to begin the journey toward competently and confidently interacting successfully with individuals from a diversity of cultures.
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Beginning the Journey: Awareness
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Building Cultural Knowledge
Introduction to Interprofessional Teamwork
This online, self-paced course provides learners with foundational knowledge of interprofessional teamwork concepts. Topics include:
- Stages of team development and group processes
- Effective teamwork and high quality patient care
- Interprofessional collaboration competencies
- Team structure strategies
- Application of teamwork in clinical rotations
Introduction to Palliative Care
This course provides an overview of the field of palliative care, including a self-assessment on basic palliative care concepts. The course also provides overviews and resources for each of the eight domains of palliative care (defined by the National Consensus Project) to be used as clinical practice guidelines for quality palliative care.
University of Minnesota: Mindfulness and Wellbeing for the Mature Woman
The Women's Health Specialist clinic has developed a six-week course about health and wellness in the context of menopause. This interprofessional health education program seeks to improve a woman's mid-life health by increasing adherence to prevention guidelines, increasing effective utilization of self-care strategies and planning for future health needs associated with aging.
University of Minnesota: Enhancing the Primary Care Clinic Team
DFMCH is testing transformative standardized teamwork using an interprofessional practice and education (IPE) approach that includes the patient in the learning, practice and outcome model.
Oregon Health & Science University: Assessing & Enhancing Clinical Education Sites for IPECP
Assessing and Enhancing Clinical Education Sites for IPE, or ACE intervention, is focused on placing learners in clinical education sites where teams with high levels of "teamness" model interprofessional collaborative practice. This intervention enhances the interface between education and clinical practice - also known as the Nexus - by focusing on educating learners in clinical settings where optimal teamwork skills are modeled.
University of Minnesota: Achieving Healthy Children with Collaborative Care
CUHCC, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), serves a linguistically diverse patient population with a majority of families living below the federal poverty level. This intervention observes the impact of TeamSTEPPS training and equity and diversity training for its staff on outcomes associated with diabetes and other chronic diseases, immunizations, well-child check-ups, weight screening, preventive dental visits, mental health functioning, patient satisfaction and cost of care.
University of Kentucky: Interprofessional Care Across Transitions for Stroke Patients
The UK Colleges of Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health are collaborating on an interprofessional simulation Intervention to improve care for stroke patients. The simulation phase will demonstrate the importance of interprofessional collaborative practice and guide providers and students on how to become effective team members.
University of Colorado: An Interprofessional Curriculum to Improve Quality and Safety
This educational intervention is intended to drive clinical change. The curriculum focuses on patient safety, creating a "just culture," patient experience and continuous quality improvement (QI). Interprofessional student teams, together with the interprofessional faculty QI teams, identify gaps in the transitions of care between care units.