To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System
This report lays out a comprehensive strategy by which government, health care providers, industry, and consumers can reduce preventable medical errors. Concluding that the know-how already exists to prevent many of these mistakes, the report sets as a minimum goal a 50 percent reduction in errors over the next five years.
In its recommendations for reaching this goal, the committee strikes a balance between regulatory and market-based initiatives, and between the roles of professionals and organizations.
Interprofessional education in Australasia
In this Letter to the Editor, published in the Journal of Inteprofessional Care, doctor, professor, and researcher Jill Thistlethwaite reflects on the progress of (and challenges facing) interprofessional education and practice in Australia and New Zealand.
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The future of health professional education: Some reflections on possibilities and complexities
While educators may pride themselves on innovations, the truth is that most change is driven by social factors and policy rather than by research. We are often at the whim of our politicians, regardless of our much-vaunted professional autonomy. So our complex question might be: What are the drivers for change in health professional education, how might we influence policy regarding these and what effects will they have? Rather than ‘what will education look like in twenty years?
Training to improve collaborative practice: a key component of strategy to reduce mental ill health in the offender population
Internationally there are unacceptably high numbers of people in contact with the criminal justice system (e.g. in police custody, in court, in prison) who have mental health issues. Addressing mental health in the offender population is essential to maintain public safety, improve the wellbeing of the offender and their family, reduce reoffending and the impact of this on the public purse.
The global emergence of IPE and collaborative care
The increasing focus of WHO Member States on primary health care (PHC) is seen as a means to achieve equitable, fair, affordable and efficient care. From the many approaches taken to PHC around the world, it is clear that major policy commitments will be required and that these will need to be accompanied by the active and collective involvement of stakeholders, particularly the health and social care professions, through informed and manageable implementation processes.
Framework for action on interprofessional education and collaborative practice
At a time when the world is facing a shortage of health workers, policymakers are looking for innovative strategies that can help them develop policy and programmes to bolster the global health workforce.
The Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice highlights the current status of interprofessional collaboration around the world, identifies the mechanisms that shape successful collaborative teamwork and outlines a series of action items that policy-makers can apply within their local health system.
Interprofessional education in pre-registration courses: A CAIPE guide for commissioners and regulators of education
This guide from the Center for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education:
Piloting interprofessional education: Four English case studies
These case studies were commissioned in 2001 by the Department of Health with the understanding that their evaluated findings would be disseminated to ensure wider application. Three of the case studies concentrate on practice learning using different approaches, and the fourth on restructuring of all health and social care curricula to allow for integration. The juxtaposition of these different approaches enables comparisons between them.
The Educational Imperative of the Triple Aim: Executive Summary of the Community University Board- Academic Health Center Retreat
This document is a summary of discussions, key recommendations, and potential next steps for creating a new collaboration between the Minnesota Health Systems and the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center to improve the education and training of health professionals developed at the Community University Board - Academic Health Center Retreat on September 24, 2012.
IOM 1972 Report: "Educating for the Health Team"
The conference brought together on a national scale equal numbers of leaders (120 in all) from the major health professions to define the issues in the increasingly important matter of interdisciplinary education, in order to give impetus to more detailed considerations of institutional, regional, and ultimately national levels of health education. The report comprises a description of the organization of the conference and the development of the report, the chairperson's introduction; and the recommendations and conclusions of the steering committee.