Institute for Healthcare Improvement- IHI Open School
The mission of the IHI Open School is to advance health care improvement and patient safety competencies in the next generation of health professionals worldwide.
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.
Ensuring an effective physician workforce for the United States: Recommendations for graduate medical education to meet the needs of the public
This report is from the second 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 May, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia - was chaired by Debra Weinstein, MD. This report examines the structure, content, and efficiency of training in graduate medical education.
Conclusions from the conference:
1. GME must meet the needs of - and be accountable to - the public.
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.
Reflections on Pathways Into Health
The authors report on the 2006 Pathways Into Health Conference held in Denver, Colorado.
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.
Continuous quality improvement in health professions education
This editorial calls attention to a major U.S. interprofessional initiative, the Interdisciplinary Professional Educational Collaborative (IPEC), designed to introduce continuous quality improvement into interdisciplinary health professions education. Continuous quality improvement thinking and methods are now widespread in U.S. health care delivery.
Examining the intersections between continuing education, interprofessional education and workplace learning
In this editorial, the authors discuss three distinct, yet overlapping, fields – continuing education (CE), interprofessional education (IPE) and workplace learning (WPL) – can inform each other and extend our conceptual, theoretical and empirical understanding of continuing interprofessional education (CIPE) in the workplace. There are substantial challenges to achieving the aims as the individual fields continue to evolve (and contain areas of variation and contestation) over their definitions, use of theories and deployment as educational interventions in the healthcare system.
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.