Progress and Promise: Profiles in Interprofessional Health Training to Deliver Patient-Centered Primary Care
The publication highlights how seven programs from California, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia train a variety of health care professionals to work together as teams in patient-centered medical homes.
Connecting the dots: Interprofessional health education and delivery system redesign at the Veterans Health Administration
Health systems around the United States are embracing new models of primary care using interprofessional team-based approaches in pursuit of better patient outcomes, higher levels of satisfaction among patients and providers, and improved overall value. Less often discussed are the implications of new models of care for health professions education, including education for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other professions engaged in primary care.
Construct validation of the readiness for interprofessional learning scale: A Rasch and factor analysis
In order to improve efficiency and collaboration in healthcare service provision, it is recommended that students engage in interprofessional education; that is, learning with, from and about professions other than one's own profession. Such endeavors are often impeded by pre-existing attitudes; therefore, self-reporting scales such as the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) have often been used in studies to gauge perspectives. The original 19-item version of the RIPLS was completed by 418 undergraduate healthcare students from a large Australian University.
Making the transition from physiotherapy student to interprofessional team member
OBJECTIVES: To explore final-year physiotherapy students' perceptions and experiences of interprofessional learning in the university and placement setting.
STUDY DESIGN: Focus group and mixed qualitative and quantitative questionnaire.
SETTING: Coventry University.
PARTICIPANTS: Third-year physiotherapy students at Coventry University.
METHODS: The final-year physiotherapy cohort was invited to complete a questionnaire containing a mix of closed- and open-ended questions. Eight volunteers from the same cohort took part in a focus group.
A four-year, systems-wide intervention promoting interprofessional collaboration
BACKGROUND: A four-year action research study was conducted across the Australian Capital Territory health system to strengthen interprofessional collaboration (IPC) though multiple intervention activities.
The development of a questionnaire to assess the readiness of health care students for interprofessional learning (RIPLS)
OBJECTIVES: Although shared learning activities are gradually being introduced to health care undergraduates, it has not been possible to measure the effects of educational interventions on students' attitudes. The main objective of this study was to develop a rating scale using items based on the desired outcomes of shared learning, to assess the 'readiness' of health care students for shared learning activities.
DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: A questionnaire study of 120 undergraduate students in 8 health care professions.
Teamwork training with nursing and medical students: Does the method matter? Results of an interinstitutional, interdisciplinary collaboration
OBJECTIVES: The authors conducted a randomised controlled trial of four pedagogical methods commonly used to deliver teamwork training and measured the effects of each method on the acquisition of student teamwork knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Integrating Oral Health into the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Currriculum
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This paper describes an innovative interprofessional education model, Innovations in Interprofessional Oral Health: Technology, Instruction, Practice, Service for integrating oral health in health sciences curricula. The Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly illustrates a patient-centered interdisciplinary practice model for improving oral health of older adults.
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Observational Skill-based Clinical Assessment tool for Resuscitation (OSCAR): Development and validation
AIM: The aim of the study reported here was to address the need to assess and train teamwork and non-technical skills in the context of Resuscitation. Specifically, we sought to develop a tool that is feasible to use and psychometrically sound to assess team behaviours during cardiac arrest resuscitation attempts.