The current state of academic centers for Interprofessional Education
Team-based interprofessional practice plays a central role in new models of care delivery. However, training health professionals for interprofessional practice remains a challenge. Centers for Interprofessional Education (IPE) exist at many academic institutions but have had limited success. The authors conducted telephone interviews with 12 leaders of academic centers for IPE, identified through a key informant method. Qualitative analysis of interview notes for common themes of barriers, successes, and insights.
Interdisciplinary education and teamwork: A long and winding road
Purpose: This article examines literature on interdisciplinary education and teamwork in health care, to discover the major issues and best practices.
Methods: A literature review of mainly North American articles using search terms such as interdisciplinary, interprofessional, multidisciplinary with medical education.
Regional Medical Programs
This chapter (from E. Ginzburg (Ed.), Regionalization and Health Policy. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare) focuses on the Regional Medical Program experience relative to the limits of regionalization in a pluralistic system, the conditions for success, and the response of voluntarism to government regulation in health.
Grounding Interprofessional Education in Scholarship
The following is a digital version of Hugh Barr's Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by published work, awarded by the University of Greenwich.
The author writes: "The 18 papers submitted are a cross-section of my publications in interprofessional education (IPE) since becoming actively engaged in that field in 1989. They comprise four themes. Each is updated and complemented by additional conceptualizations. Together, they point to the need to:
The Education of the Health Care Team- What's It All About?
This document is the text of a speech delivered by Richard Beckhard at the Congress on Medical Education held in Chicago on February 1, 1974.
As Beckhard explains: "The issue is not whether team delivery of health care is good or bad, needed or not needed. Team delivery of care exists today, in a wide variety of delivery settings from the private physician-nurse team, to the multi-member interdisciplinary teams in community health centers, out-patient clinics and the like.
An Academic-Practice Model to Improve the Health of Underserved Neighborhoods
The Interprofessional Care Access Network is an innovative model for academic-practice partnership providing care coordination for vulnerable and underserved clients and populations in identified neighborhoods. Interprofessional student teams, including health professions students from nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, collaborate with community service organizations and primary care clinics to address social determinants of health identified as barriers to achieving health care outcomes and Triple Aim goals.
Shared Leadership- A New Approach to Patient Care
A team approach to patient education was utilized in a 3 1/2 year experimental program in a 500-bed commnunity teaching hospital. This paper relates the problems inherent in an interdisciplinary team which uses a shared leadership approach and its relationship to the larger organization, the hospital. It described the impact the team had on its members and on the patients and discusses the implications for others who are contemplating using teams.
This paper is part of the collected papers of DeWitt C. "Bud" Baldwin.
Changes in Healthcare Professions' Scope of Practice: Legislative Considerations
This document is a result of a collaborative effort in 2006 by representatives from six healthcare regulatory organizations. It has been developed to assist legislators and regulatory bodies with making decisions about changes to healthcare professions’ scopes of practice.
Practical Steps to Address IPECP Implementation Challenges: The Loyola Experience
In this webinar, Dr. Fran Vlasses and Dr. Aaron Michelfelder presented the challenges and rewards of a HRSA-funded project to transform clinical practice into an interprofessional model at Loyola University Chicago.
Objectives for the webinar: