Need for Collaboration of Pediatrician and Orthodontist
At the Forsyth Dental Infirmary, Boston, the orthodontist, pediatrician, nutritionist and child psychiatrist collaborate to promote a more comprehensive approach to the patient with malocclusion of the teeth. Each discipline contributes a special facet to the total clinical assessment of the child. The diagnostic conference serves as an important educational experience in the program of the postgraduate fellows in orthodontics.
Aligning practice redesign and interprofessional education to advance triple aim outcomes
Achieving the goals of health care reform – described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as the “Triple Aim” – will place new demands on the health care workforce. Interprofessional team-based care, quality and process improvement, and population health management are not skills that have been emphasized in traditional health professions education and training.
Interprofessional Care: an Introductory Session on the Roles of Health Professionals
This is a script with video and powerpoint slides for a 2-hour introductory IPE session for junior or entering health professions students. The curriculum addresses role recognition and team-based care. The materials are organized into course director, faculty and student scripts, and is a step-by-step guide to implementation in an educaitonal setting using group facilitation. A faculty training guide is included. The materials are published in MedEdPortal and can be accessed by registering for free.
Knowledge and Attitude Change in Physician Assistant Students After an Interprofessional Geriatric Care Experience: A Mixed Methods Study
This is a mixed methods study to examine learning outcomes on Physician Assistant students of a longitudinal geriartics IPE curriculum for 5 health professions.
NYU-Sponsored Interprofessional Education (IPE) Event Brings Together Medical, Dental, and Nurse Practitioner Students for Multiday Program at Bellevue Hospital Center
In September 2013, 84 fourth-year dental students, 168 second-year medical students, and 84 nurse practitioner and nurse-midwifery students gathered in small groups at the New York Simulation Center, operated by the NYU School of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center, to learn from one another and gain a stronger understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each profession.
Preparing nursing students for interprofessional learning
Introduction: Teaching strategy for nursing students needs to be varied for the future preparation and to increase confidence level in delivering quality care to patients. Interprofessional learning (IPL) is a way to encourage collaboration among health professional teams that will drive them to collaborate with, from and about other professions and thus, it allow students to have greater knowledge. Currently, many students are unable to learn together during clinical posting due to professional boundaries.
The importance of breakthroughs
In this introduction to a special issue of Michener magazine, the author highlights the importance of breakthroughs at the Institute.
Resolving the Barriers to Interprofessional Education- One University’s Perspective
The fundamental issue facing interprofessional education hinges on using an appropriate theory, which supports testable hypotheses about the collaboration inherent in interprofessional education and interprofessional collaboration.
This is a draft version of the following publication: Gilbert, J.H.V. Resolving the Barriers to Interprofessional Education - One University’s Perspective. Meeting Report, International Symposium 2000: Educating for Quality Healthcare. It is available for download with the permission of the author.
Why IPE needs theory and research- The theory-practice relationship in interprofessional education
Interprofessional education needs focal points, in theory and in research - a strong theory that will allow the evaluation of parameters associated with interprofessional collaboration in education and practice, and that involves a mix of health and human service professions both within the university, and with community partners.