Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
BACKGROUND: As patient care becomes more complex, effective collaboration between health and social care professionals is required. However, evidence suggests that these professionals do not collaborate well together. Interprofessional education (IPE) offers a possible way forward in this area.
OBJECTIVES: To assess the usefulness of IPE interventions compared to education in which the same professions were learning separately from one another.
'Real life' clinical learning on an interprofessional training ward
This paper describes the multi-method evaluation of an interprofessional training ward placement for medical, nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy students. Unique in the UK, and an extension of pioneering work in Sweden (Wahlström et al. 1997, Wahlstroöm & Sandén 1998), this interprofessional clinical placement allowed senior pre-qualifying students, under the supervision of practitioners, to plan and deliver interprofessional care for a group of orthopaedic and rheumatology patients.
What's so great about collaboration?
The authors assert that the interprofessional health care community needs more evidence and less rhetoric.
Community-based interprofessional education for medical, nursing and dental students
This paper presents final results from a 15-month project which evaluated the effectiveness of interprofessional education (IPE) for first and second year medical, nursing and dental students on a community-based placement. The paper initially discusses the current issues within the IPE literature. It goes on to provide background information of this placement. In presenting the project's methodology, the paper describes the use of a 'process-based' approach which tracked the education and social processes connected to IPE.
Evaluating interprofessional education: two systematic reviews for health and social care
Learning between professions has been widely invoked in health and social care in the belief that it improves collaboration in practice. Evidence to substantiate that belief is, however, elusive. Obstacles to the rigorous evaluation of interprofessional education are formidable, but this article reports progress towards establishing an evidence base. It describes two reviews. One is subject to criteria for Cochrane Collaboration, the other less constrained. Findings are reported for the first and methodology is discussed for the second.
Proceedings of the 12th Congress of Health Professions Educators
Integrating Clinical Prevention and Population Health into Education, Practice, and Research
This volume contains papers presented at the 12th Congress of Health Professions Educators, Integrating Clinical Prevention and Population Health into Education, Practice, and Research.
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Proceedings of the 11th Congress of Health Professions Educators
Through a Prism: Perspectives on a Cross-Professions Skill Set
Proceedings of the 10th Congress of Health Professions Educators
Maximizing Your ROI: Collaboration and Quality in Distance Learning
Proceedings of the 9th Congress of Health Professions Educators
Faculty Shortages Across the Health Professions: Implications for Teaching and Workforce
In recent years, health professions educators and administrators have increasingly witnessed and have thus begun attempting to address faculty shortages across the spectrum of health professions, perhaps most acutely in allied health, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy. The development of new curricula and the aspiration to expand community-based education have exacerbated concerns about adequate, qualified faculty.
Review of Interprofessional Education in the United Kingdom, 1997-2013
This review of pre-registration interprofessional education in the United Kingdom over the fifteen year period 1997-2013 was undertaken by the Interprofessional Education Research Group and part funded by the UK Higher Education Academy.
Drawing on three sources: the literature, an online survey and reflective accounts by invited teachers with follow-up interviews, it seeks to provide an up-to-date picture of inter-professional education (IPE), representing the responses of 52 educational institutions relating to 63 IPE courses or modules.
