All Together Better Health VII- Keynote Speaker
Sir David Nicholson, KCB, CBE was the Keynote Speaker at All Together Better Health VII, which was held June 6-8, 2014 at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sir David Nicholson was Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England from September 2006 to March 2013. From October 2011 to March 2014 he was the first Chief Executive of NHS England, the body responsible for overseeing over £100bn NHS funding per annum to improve quality and secure the best possible outcomes for people.
“The Power of Many Minds Working Together”: Qualitative Study of an Interprofessional Service-Learning Capstone Course
Background: An interprofessional faculty group analyzed a critical reflection
assignment of students in a service-learning practicum interprofessional education
(IPE) course. Students were from ten programs: physical therapy, occupational
therapy, nuclear medicine technology, radiation therapy, athletic training,
nursing, investigative medical science, cytotechnology, nutrition and dietetics, and
clinical laboratory science. Research questions investigated what the assignments
All Together Better Health VII
This video gives a brief overview of the 7th International Conference on Interprofessional Practice and Education, which was held June 6-8, 2014 at the University of Pittsburgh Campus and was co-Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education.
Benefits of early interprofessional education
I’m wondering if there is significant evidence to support the need for early IPE vs. later-onset IPE in the course of the education of health professionals. I think we all believe that early exposure is very important. And, Bud Baldwin cites his Nevada experience in which early exposure of pre-med students led more of them to choose primary care fields when they were in medical school. But, I’m unaware of a lot of evidence (and I’m not looking for RCTs) that supports early exposure vs. starting, for example, with residents vs. medical students, newly employed nurses vs.
National Center Journal Club with Jacqueline Loversidge
Join Dr. Jacqueline Loversidge and Dr. M. Nawal Lutfiyya as they discuss influences that lead to powerful interprofessional student experiences.
Interprofessional Education Summit: Registration Now Open
The National Center is pleased to sponsor "New Models of Care: An Interprofessional Perspective," an education summit at St. Catherine University on April 29. Click the title of this brief for more information.
eLearning for undergraduate health professional education
The World Health Organization's Department of Health Workforce in collaboration with the Department of Knowledge, Ethics and Research commissioned this report to provide countries with evidence to inform and guide the adoption of innovative, technology-enabled models into health professional education, so as to augment capacities to scale up production, enhance quality and relevance of training, and adopt equity-focused policies.
Communicating the Social Determinants of Health- Guidelines for Common Messaging
Our health is influenced by diverse factors — not only by medical care and our health care system, but also by our work, our level of education and income, where we live and many other things that are together referred to as social determinants of health (SDH).
Models in interprofessional education: The IP enhancement approach as effective alternative
OBJECTIVE: This article discusses the strategies and challenges of implementing interprofessional education interventions with students from different disciplines. It reviews two models of interprofessional education in academic prelicensure curricula including the extra-curricular and the crossbar models by considering ease of implementation, program reach and sustainability. It also introduces the interprofessional enhancement approach as an additional curriculum development strategy.