7th Annual West Michigan Interprofessional Education Initiative Conference
Please Join Us for the 7th Annual West Michigan Interprofessional Education Initiative Conference
The theme of this year's Interprofessional Education conference is "Best Practices and Innovations in Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research", with four conference objectives:
Integrating the caregiver perspective: An interprofessional opportunity
Brief description of a community-based interprofessional education session integrating caregivers (patients' families and support systems) as part of the interprofessional team. Goals were to increase student awareness of the unique challenges caregivers face and to work as part of an interprofessional team to address these challenges.
Physician assistant students' views on interprofessional education: A focus group study
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify and report physician assistant (PA) student experiences, learning, and opinions regarding interprofessional education (IPE).
The Contact Hypothesis: An exploration of its further potential in interprofessional education.
This paper highlights the research challenges that face researchers wishing to build the evidence base around interprofessional education (IPE). It concentrates specifically on the short-term impact of IPE on a student population. The Contact Hypothesis is a particularly useful theoretical framework to address these challenges as well as guide the development of IPE interventions. A brief description of this theory and the closely-related theories of social identity and categorization is made in order to support and clarify this theoretical position.
The ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) as a tool to promote collaboration readiness in interdisciplinary teams
Using the example of one multiprofessional team (Feeding Team) we demonstrate how the ICF can be used to identify core competencies, show overlaps and help to integrate roles.
Developing theoretical rigour in interprofessional education
In this chapter, the author explores the meaning of theory and the role it plays in the development of interprofessional education. The chapter explores specifically the utility of the theory of social capital in the field and uses this as a case theory to present the dimensions of theoretical quality that is proposed as essential to the advancement of research, evaluation and curriculum development in this arena.
Interprofessional Collaboration when Working with Older People
A chapter directed at nursing students working with older people. By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:
Training to improve collaborative practice: a key component of strategy to reduce mental ill health in the offender population
Internationally there are unacceptably high numbers of people in contact with the criminal justice system (e.g. in police custody, in court, in prison) who have mental health issues. Addressing mental health in the offender population is essential to maintain public safety, improve the wellbeing of the offender and their family, reduce reoffending and the impact of this on the public purse.