Proceedings of the 4th Congress of Health Professions Educators
Interdisciplinary Education as a Prelude to Interdisciplinary Practice (or Vice Versa)
Proceedings of the 3rd Congress of Health Professions Educators
Building the Workforce for a Diverse Society
Proceedings of the 2nd Congress of Health Professions Educators
Making the Team Work
Proceedings of the 1st Congress of Health Professions Educators
Health Professions Educators Confront a New Era
A comparison of the validity of two instruments assessing health professional student perceptions of interprofessional education and practice
Health professional education programs increasingly incorporate interprofessional education (IPE) activities into curricula in response to evolving health policy and accreditation requirements in an effort to highlight the benefits of, and prepare students for, interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP). As such, there is a need for statistically valid instruments designed to assess baseline student perceptions regarding IPE and IPCP.
Testing for competence rather than for "intelligence"
The author argues that while traditional intelligence tests have been validated almost entirely against school performance, the evidence that they measure abilities which are essential to performing well in various life outcomes is weak. Most of the validity studies are correlational in nature and fail to control for the fact that social class might be a 3rd variable accounting for positive correlations between test scores and occupational success, and between level of schooling achieved and occupational success.
Intensive care decisions about level of aggressiveness of care
Questionnaires were used to assess (a) the factors intensive care unit resident physicians (N = 33) and nurses (N = 57) perceived as influential in making decisions about level of aggressiveness of patient care (LAC), (b) who residents and nurses believed should be involved versus who was involved in decision making, and (c) the amount of collaboration they perceived in their practices. Questionnaires then were used to assess decision making about 314 patients.
Response to "A Conceptual Model of Collaborative Nurse-Physician Interactions: The Management of Traditional Influences and Personal Tendencies"
The authors respond to the model of nurse-physician interaction described in: Corser, W.D. (1998). A Conceptual Model of Collaborative Nurse-Physician Interactions: The Management of Traditional Influences and Personal Tendencies. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 12(4), 325-341.
Engaging Care Teams in
A portal for care teams seeking to increase patient engagement
Lifelong Learning in Medicine and Nursing
The Josiah Macy Foundation’s 2007 conference on continuing education (CE) in the health professions identified the need, and set the stage for, improvement in this last and longest phase of health professionals’ education. Establishing a platform for change in an era of health care reform, the report stressed incorporatingfindings from the extensive literature of health professions’ CE.
