Attitudes of students in medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, and physical therapy toward interprofessional education
With the growing interest in interprofessional education and practice, methods to evaluate the effectiveness of related curricular activities are essential. The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to assess the attitudes of students in medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, and physical therapy toward interprofessional education using the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale and Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale and (2) to compare data with normative data previously reported.
Interprofessional education in anatomy: Learning together in medical and nursing training
Teamwork and the interprofessional collaboration of all health professions are a guarantee of patient safety and highly qualified treatment in patient care. In the daily clinical routine, physicians and nurses must work together, but the education of the different health professions occurs separately in various places, mostly without interrelated contact. Such training abets mutual misunderstanding and cements professional protectionism, which is why interprofessional education can play an important role in dismantling such barriers to future cooperation.
National Center Journal Club with Dr. Stuart C. Gilman
Join Dr. Stuart C. Gilman in a discussion about the interaction between care transformation and the redesign of health professions education at the Veterans Health Administration in this free webinar on January 27.
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.