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Interprofessional Education for Collaboration: Learning How to Improve Health from Interprofessional Models Across the Continuum of Education to Practice: Workshop Summary
Every year, the Global Forum undertakes two workshops whose topics are selected by the more than 55 members of the Forum. It was decided in this first year of the Forum's existence that the workshops should lay the foundation for future work of the Forum and the topic that could best provide this base of understanding was "interprofessional education." The first workshop took place August 29-30, 2012, and the second was on November 29-30, 2012. Both workshops focused on linkages between interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice.
National Center Expands Leadership Team
Mark O’Leary has been named the deputy director and chief operating officer for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. In this role, O’Leary will oversee many of the center’s programs and manage day-to-day operations.
Post-geriatric evaluation unit follow-up: Team versus nonteam
Twenty-six matched pairs of elderly male patients who had been evaluated in an outpatient geriatric evaluation unit (GEU) were assigned randomly to be followed in either a geriatrics clinic with an interdisciplinary team or a general medical clinic without an interdisciplinary team. Patients were medically stable and living in the community. At 12 months no difference was found in cognitive, affective, or functional status. Both groups of patients had similar frequencies of hospitalization, community placement, use of community services, and number of deaths.
An Investigation of Power in an Interdisciplinary Health Care Team
This study addressed the question of how power is perceived and shared in a non-hierarchical interdisciplinary health care model. Eleven members of an interdisciplinary health care team were asked to: (1) rate power sources for their constructive use in team function; (2) rank team members for power position in the team; and (3) identify up to five power sources in order of importance for the three members they rated most powerful, three members rated least powerful and for themselves. The perceived power for leadership was neither equal nor hierarchical.
Using Interprofessional Student Teams to Improve Diabetes Care Management and Training in Medical Home Principles
This powerpoint describes an educational clinical interprofessional program that applies medical home principles to manage uncontrolled diabetics.
Insights from My Time in Minneapolis
Dr. Jill Thistlethwaite, a Fulbright senior scholar exploring evaluation and research methods for IPECP at the National Center, offers observations from her time in Minneapolis.
Self-Directed Work Teams and Interdisciplinary Healthcare Teams: Clash of Cultures in Symbiotic Relationship
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 22-24, 1994 in Chicago, Illinois. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
