Call for Participants: CLARION Case Competition
CLARION, a student organization dedicated to improving health care through interprofessional collaboration, is seeking participants for its annual national case competition. Click the title of this brief for more information.
Call for Abstracts: Where's the Patient's Voice in Health Professional Education 10 Years On?
"Where's the Patient's Voice in Health Professional Education 10 Years On?" will look at the progress made since the first conference was held in Vancouver in 2005.
Training osteopathic geriatric academicians: Impact of a model geriatric residency program
The need for osteopathic geriatric academic leaders who are educators and researchers is well recognized. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine's Geriatric Residency program, a federally funded Faculty Training Project in Geriatric Medicine and Dentistry, has served as a model program in the osteopathic medical profession since its inception in 1989.
An evaluation of interdisciplinary team training in hospice care
Medicare requires all hospice agencies to conduct regular interdisciplinary team meetings to facilitate collaboration within the team and to coordinate holistic plans of patient care. This study takes a preliminary look at hospice agencies' preparation of interdisciplinary team members for collaboration within team meetings and aims to explain hospices' strategies for training and assessing the collaborative strength of interdisciplinary team meetings.
Establishing face and content validity of the McMaster-Ottawa team observed structured clinical encounter (TOSCE)
The Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) has become the criterion standard for the assessment of clinical competence in undergraduate and postgraduate medical and other health professional programs.
Assessing teamwork in the trauma bay: Introduction of a modified "NOTECHS" scale for trauma
BACKGROUND: A modified nontechnical skills (NOTECHS) scale for trauma (T-NOTECHS) was developed to teach and assess teamwork skills of multidisciplinary trauma resuscitation teams. In this study, T-NOTECHS was evaluated for reliability and correlation with clinical performance.
METHODS: Interrater reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient) and correlation with the speed and completeness of resuscitation tasks were assessed during simulation-based teamwork training and during actual trauma resuscitations.
Methods for evaluating practice change toward a patient-centered medical home
PURPOSE: Understanding the transformation of primary care practices to patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) requires making sense of the change process, multilevel outcomes, and context. We describe the methods used to evaluate the country's first national demonstration project of the PCMH concept, with an emphasis on the quantitative measures and lessons for multimethod evaluation approaches.
The Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Requirements for Teamwork: Revisiting the Teamwork-KSA Test's validity
The Teamwork – Knowledge, Skills, and Ability (KSA) Test was developed by Stevens and Campion to operationalize their comprehensive taxonomy of teamwork competencies. The test is generally considered ‘valid’ and has been used frequently in organizations. Our review of the literature found an average criterion validity of.20 for the Teamwork-KSA Test, although there was considerable variability across studies. We could find no research on the item properties, factor structure, or subscale reliabilities, and no extensive investigations of the nomological net of this test.
The University of Arkansas’ Five‐Pillar Plan for an Institutional Triple Aim Culture
The Triple Aim was originally articulated in 2008 as a means to transform health care through (1) improving the patient care experience; (2) improving the health of the population; and (3) reducing the cost of care.
The Office of interprofessional education at the University of Arkansas Medical School has aligned its vision, initiatives, and resources to help move toward meeting the Triple Aim for our institution, our State, and our Nation. The Triple Aim is the unifying principle upon which all other initiatives within our diverse institution are based.
The triple aim: Care, health, and cost
Improving the U.S. health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care. Preconditions for this include the enrollment of an identified population, a commitment to universality for its members, and the existence of an organization (an "integrator") that accepts responsibility for all three aims for that population.