There Is No “I” in Teamwork in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Defining Teamwork Competencies for Academic Practice
Evidence suggests that teamwork is essential for safe, reliable practice. Creating health care teams able to function effectively in patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), practices that organize care around the patient and demonstrate achievement of defined quality care standards, remains challenging. Preparing trainees for practice in interprofessional teams is particularly challenging in academic health centers where health professions curricula are largely siloed.
Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: Welcome to the "New" Forty-Year Old Field
Since 1999, the United States (U.S.) healthcare delivery system has been transforming in profound and fundamental ways.
Barbara Brandt's Keynote Address at University of Wisconsin Summit
The Interprofessional Health Council (IPHC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a student organization with representation from 13 different health professional programs on campus. Funded in part by a generous grant from Target, IPHC recently hosted its annual educational conference. Over 100 students and faculty attended "Collaborating for Care: Interprofessional Health Summit 2015," which featured Barbara Brandt, PhD, Director of the National Center, as a keynote speaker. Watch Dr. Brandt's address at the link below.
Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future: Mass./Rhode Island IPE Project
Health care educators in Massachusetts and Rhode Island have collaborated around nursing and other health professions education for years. The Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future (PIN) project, Building a Regional Institute for Inter-Professional Education, highlighted in this video, shows how they worked together to build an institute to strengthen inter-professional education (IPE) in the region.
ACCAHC Accomplishments at a Glance 2004-present June 2014
A list of some of ACCAHC's accomplishments in creating and sustaining a network of global educational organizations and agencies, fostering mutual understanding, collaborative activities and interdisciplinary healthcare education.
Lessons from the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report profiles the experiences of more than 20 hospitals and community health centers that utilize interprofessional collaboration to achieve better patient outcomes. The report, "Lessons From the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices," helps health care entities assess the potential benefits of interprofessional collaboration and offers a road map to implementing the approach.
High-Functioning Integrated Health Systems: Governing a “Learning Organization”
This white paper argues in favor of a transformation of structure and function of governance for community health systems destined for higher levels of clinical and business model integration. A principal goal of these recommended transformations is enhancing the performance of integrated health systems as “learning organizations” that are able to acquire knowledge and innovate fast enough to survive in a rapidly changing environment.
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.
Organizational Issues in the Team Delivery of Comprehensive Health Care
This paper examines the kinds of organization problems existing in community based delivery settings and then identifies several ways of looking at organizational functioning. These methods are applied to the identified organizational problems. Finally, the author discusses some implications for the curricula of medical and professional schools concerned with the education and training of health workers for the practice of social medicine.
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.