Transforming Patient Care: Aligning Interprofessional Education with Clinical Practice Redesign
Malcolm Cox, MD and Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN chaired the January 2013 conference whose proceedings are recorded in this report.
As health professions education and healthcare delivery undergo rapid change, stimulated in part by the Affordable Care Act, it is critical that they not be developed in isolation. Educational reform must incorporate practice redesign, and delivery system change must include a central educational mission for transformation to endure.
Core recommendations:
Editorial- Introducing the Global Research Interprofessional Network (GRIN)
An interprofessional and interdisciplinary group of friends and colleagues with a common passion for interprofessional education for collaborative patient-centered practice (IECPCP) and the GRIN working group met in Toronto, Canada, in May 2012. Participants were identified for this orientation meeting to ensure representation by educators, clinicians, graduate students and international collaborators. Our aim was to discuss how the research agenda for IECPCP might be advanced with an emphasis on the nurturing and development of new researchers in the field.
The global emergence of IPE and collaborative care
The increasing focus of WHO Member States on primary health care (PHC) is seen as a means to achieve equitable, fair, affordable and efficient care. From the many approaches taken to PHC around the world, it is clear that major policy commitments will be required and that these will need to be accompanied by the active and collective involvement of stakeholders, particularly the health and social care professions, through informed and manageable implementation processes.
Bridging the quality chasm: Interprofessional teams to the rescue?
Interprofessional education for collaborative practice, also referred to as education for “team-based healthcare,” is a recent innovation in US health professions education.1 Several specialties in medicine support this approach to care, for example, geriatrics, but educational preparation to deliver team-based care remains underdeveloped in the US. Will that change?
Editorial- Interprofessional- education, learning, practice and care
Probably, the most frequently asked question about interprofessional education (IPE) is “Does IPE make any difference to health care?” This question was posed in a slightly different way at the All Together Better Health meeting in London, UK, in July 1997. At that conference, two propositions were debated: “interprofessional education promotes collaboration” and “collaboration improves the quality of care” (Leathard, 1997).
Integrating interprofessional education in community-based learning activities: case study
Faculty of Medicine/Suez Canal University (FOM/SCU) students are exposed to clinical practice in primary care settings within the community, in which they encounter patients and begin to work within interprofessional health teams. However, there is no planned curricular interaction with learners from other professions at the learning sites.
Barbara Brandt: Interprofessional Practice and Education Expert Leading Change with Support from HRSA and HHS
In this podcast, hosted by Health Crossroads, Dr. Barbara Brandt discusses several critical topics in health today including telehealth, integrated health systems, Obamacare and ACA, health and wellness, shifting models of care, and of course interprofessional education.
The coming of age for interprofessional education and practice
Interprofessional education for collaborative practice is an important innovation globally and in US health professions education. The recent spotlight on interprofessional education in the United States was launched by a series of reports in the US Institute of Medicine's Quality Chasm series. They raised concerns over medical errors and health care quality as significant sources of morbidity and mortality in the United States and proposed health professions' education for patient-centered, team-based care as one means to address these concerns.
Core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice: Report of an expert panel
This report is inspired by a vision of interprofessional collaborative practice as key to the safe, high quality, accessible, patient-centered care desired by all. Achieving that vision for the future requires the continuous development of interprofessional competencies by health professions students as part of the learning process, so that they enter the workforce ready to practice effective teamwork and team-based care. Our intent was to build on each profession’s expected disciplinary competencies in defining competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice.
Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice
The Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice initiative strives to improve access to early detection and preventive interventions by expanding oral health clinical competency of primary care clinicians, leading to improved oral health.
The initiative comprises three inter-related components: