Building high reliability teams: Progress and some reflections on teamwork training
The science of team training in healthcare has progressed dramatically in recent years. Methodologies have been refined and adapted for the unique and varied needs within healthcare, where once team training approaches were borrowed from other industries with little modification. Evidence continues to emerge and bolster the case that team training is an effective strategy for improving patient safety. Research is also elucidating the conditions under which teamwork training is most likely to have an impact, and what determines whether improvements achieved will be maintained over time.
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.
The Expanding Role of Pharmacists in a Transformed Health Care System
Pharmacists practice in a variety of health care settings. Although they are most often associated with dispensing medications in retail pharmacies, their role is evolving to include providing direct care to patients as members of integrated health care provider teams.
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.
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.
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:
Open Session for Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education (IPE) on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes: A Consensus Study- Presentation: Team Training and Patient Outcomes
On October 7, 2014, an IOM committee examined the methods needed to measure the impact of interprofessional education (IPE) on collaborative practice, patient outcomes or both, as determined by the available evidence.
In this presentation, Shirley Sonesh and Eduardo Salas from the University of Central Florida's Department of Psychology and Instute for Simulation Training discuss the impact of team training on patient outcomes.