Crew resource management: How well does it translate to an interprofessional healthcare context?
Despite its increasing popularity for the training of interprofessional teams, crew resource management (CRM) has a number of limitations, which are often overlooked. In this editorial, the authors discuss the evolution of CRM, explore the evidence linked to its use in promoting interprofessional teamwork and discuss many of its limitations.
Why we need theory to help us better understand the nature of interprofessional education, practice and care
In this editorial, the authors outline the need for using (grand, mid-range and micro) theories to enhance our understanding of interprofessional education, practice and care. The authors argue why we need to engage in theoretical development in the interprofessional field, and why theoretical development should not be seen as a luxury, or low priority, but a central feature of the work we do developing and studying interprofessional education, practice and care.
The intersection of informatics and interprofessional collaboration
This editorial explores how we can establish synergies between the field of informatics and the interprofessional field. The authors first provide some defining characteristics to help understand the nature of informatics and then discuss the array of functional (and dysfunctional) uses when designing and implementing informatics in healthcare.
The rise and rise of interprofessional competence
In this editorial, the author explores the continued rise of competency frameworks in the interprofessional field. He outlines the growth of interprofessional competency frameworks and discusses some of the benefits they offer before examining their current shortcomings.
Simulation: A panacea for interprofessional learning?
The Institute of Medicine's seminal report To Err is Human (Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 2000) argued that to improve quality and safety, health care organizations needed to create interprofessional training opportunities for practitioners to learn interpersonal and technical skills in safe, simulated environments.
Experts from Australia and New Zealand to visit National Center
Through funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education will be hosting two international scholars in its Global Leadership Consultancies in Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research.
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science honors DeWitt C. Baldwin
This month Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science officially dedicated the DeWitt C. Baldwin Institute for Interprofessional Education, honoring Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Scholar in Residence and a pioneer of interprofessional education, DeWitt C. Baldwin, MD.
National Center Data Repository Advisory Council Named
National Center’s Data Repository is up, running and being loaded with information on interprofessional practice and education from the Nexus Innovation Incubator Network sites. To guide and advise on the Data Repository’s development, National Center has named a new advisory council to help create a system with a philosophy similar to “Turbo Tax” — where the data and structure allow questions to be asked and answered simply, easily, and accurately so answers can be turned into effective decisions.
Using the sociological imagination in the interprofessional field
In this editorial, I extend this discussion by drawing upon the seminal work of C. Wright Mills (1967) who developed the notion of the ‘sociological imagination’ to provide a way of understanding, more deeply, the influences of different societal phenomena on the lives of individuals. I use this notion to argue why its use has a number of advantages for broadening our knowledge about the interprofessional field.
UNE Student IPE Rotations- MaineGeneral / Family Medicine Institute
"My advice is to jump right in!"
~UNE College of Pharmacy graduate Michelle O'Meara '14
