The intersection of informatics and interprofessional collaboration
This editorial explores how we can establish synergies between the field of informatics and the interprofessional field. The authors first provide some defining characteristics to help understand the nature of informatics and then discuss the array of functional (and dysfunctional) uses when designing and implementing informatics in healthcare.
Simulation: A panacea for interprofessional learning?
The Institute of Medicine's seminal report To Err is Human (Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 2000) argued that to improve quality and safety, health care organizations needed to create interprofessional training opportunities for practitioners to learn interpersonal and technical skills in safe, simulated environments.
Interprofessional simulated learning: The need for 'sociological fidelity'
In this editorial, the authors examine some of the current limitations of interprofessional simulated learning activities and suggest the use of a sociological approach to help enhance the quality of this form of learning and improve its transferability to interprofessional practice.
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An overview of continuing interprofessional education
Interprofessional education, continuing interprofessional education, interprofessional collaboration, and interprofessional care are moving to the forefront of approaches with the potential to reorganize the delivery of health professions education and health care practice. This article discusses 7 key trends in the scholarship and practice of interprofessional education: conceptual clarity, quality, safety, technology, assessment of learning, faculty development, and theory.
Flying blind: The experience of online interprofessional facilitation
The role of the facilitator is known to be important in fostering productive interprofessional education (IPE) in the face-to-face (F2F) environment. Online learning can help surmount some of the logistical challenges in IPE by bringing together diverse professionals in multiple geographical locations. Best practices in F2F IPE facilitation are beginning to emerge, but there is scant literature examining IPE facilitation online.
An evaluation of the use of smartphones to communicate between clinicians: A mixed-methods study
BACKGROUND: Communication between clinicians is critical to providing quality patient care but is often hampered by limitations of current systems. Smartphones such as BlackBerrys may improve communication, but studies of these technologies have been limited to date.
OBJECTIVE: Our objectives were to describe how smartphones were adopted for clinical communication within general internal medical wards and determine their impact on team effectiveness and communication.
Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
The Lancet Commission, consisting of 20 professional and academic leaders from diverse countries, came together to develop a shared vision and a common strategy for postsecondary education in medicine, nursing, and public health that reaches beyond the confines of national borders and the silos of individual professions. The Commission adopted a global outlook, a multiprofessional perspective, and a systems approach. This comprehensive framework considers the connections between education and health systems.
