Climate Change and Public Health: An Interprofessional Review
Climate change, and associated air and water pollution, impacts patients, practices and health care facilities. The aim of this conference is to equip health professionals with the knowledge necessary to recognize the effects of climate change on diverse medical conditions and to plan interventions to combat these effects.
European Conference on Interprofessional Practice and Education
The theme of the 2015 European Interprofessional Practice and Education Network for Health and Social Care (EIPEN) conference is “Bridging the gap between education and practice in health and social care.” The conference will include remarks from international experts and decision makers in care and interprofessional education and various interactive workshops.
Convenient Healthcare and Pharmacy Collaborative
This two-day conference will allow pharmacists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants to join one another in continuing education. Attendees can earn up to 10 collaborative education credits for completing the available educational sessions. Topics include learning the latest about disease prevention, health care screenings, chronic care management and treatment of common acute and chronic conditions.
Third International Symposium on Healthcare Communication
The symposium brings together local and international practitioners, educators, academics and leaders to share and discuss innovative practices, educational strategies and cutting-edge research that promotes compassionate health care, attention to core values and skilled communication in different health care settings around the world.
Webinar to Discuss Findings, Actions from Recent IOM Report
A growing body of work has shown that interprofessional practice and education (IPE) can improve learners’ perceptions of interprofessional practice (IPP) and enhance collaborative knowledge and skills. In contrast, establishing a direct cause-and-effect relationship between IPE and patient, population and system outcomes has proven more difficult – not unlike other health professional educational interventions.
Measuring the Impact of IPE: A computer-side chat with Malcolm Cox
A growing body of work has shown that interprofessional practice and education (IPE) can improve learners’ perceptions of interprofessional practice (IPP) and enhance collaborative knowledge and skills. In contrast, establishing a direct cause-and-effect relationship between IPE and patient, population and system outcomes has proven more difficult – not unlike other health professional educational interventions.
Oral Health: An Essential Component of Primary Care
Oral health is essential for healthy development and healthy aging, yet nationwide there is an unacceptably high burden of oral disease.This new white paper makes the case for incorporating preventive oral healthcare as a component of routine medical care and structuring referrals to dentistry.
Community Pharmacy and Blood Pressure Control
Widespread, effective identification and management of uncontrolled hypertension remains elusive, undermining our ability to reduce the impact of stroke and heart disease. The statistics are widely appreciated: roughly 30% of North Americans have hypertension and almost half are uncontrolled. Nearly 1,000 people a day die from complications attributed to hypertension, and direct and indirect costs amount to $46 billion a year in the United States alone.
Student Empathy Levels Across 12 Medical and Health Professions: An Interventional Study
Evidence is emerging that clinician empathy improves clinical outcomes, but diminishes with experience. More empathetic clinicians get better results; but more experienced clinicians tend to show less empathy.
Interprofessional Anatomy Education in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Perspectives from Students and Teachers
There is increasing recognition of multiprofessional learning in anatomy and its role in medical and healthcare professions. This study utilized two components to investigate anatomy interprofessional education (AIPE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland. First, a survey involving qualitative and quantitative components asked Heads of Anatomy to report on their institutions’ uptake of AIPE.