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.
Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations- From Professional Dominance to Managed Care
Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and underlying sets of organizing principles.
The Role of Physician Assistants in Health Care Delivery
Many experts see PAs as important contributors to emerging strategies to deliver health care more efficiently and effectively, but important barriers exist that could slow the growth of the profession. For example, state laws and regulations may not be broad enough to encompass the professional competencies of PAs. In addition, state statutes and regulations impose widely diverse restrictions on physicians’ ability to delegate authority to PAs, which, in some instances, are overly strict.
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 Role of Nurse Practitioners in Meeting Increasing Demand for Primary Care
One way states could increase access to primary care for their residents is to consider easing their scope of practice restrictions and modifying their reimbursement policies to increase the role of nurse practitioners in providing primary care, according to a new paper released by the National Governors Association (NGA).
Regional Medical Programs
This chapter (from E. Ginzburg (Ed.), Regionalization and Health Policy. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare) focuses on the Regional Medical Program experience relative to the limits of regionalization in a pluralistic system, the conditions for success, and the response of voluntarism to government regulation in health.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally
The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report - Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States - the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of Mirror, Mirror. Most troubling, the U.S.
Grounding Interprofessional Education in Scholarship
The following is a digital version of Hugh Barr's Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by published work, awarded by the University of Greenwich.
The author writes: "The 18 papers submitted are a cross-section of my publications in interprofessional education (IPE) since becoming actively engaged in that field in 1989. They comprise four themes. Each is updated and complemented by additional conceptualizations. Together, they point to the need to: