A Comparison of two scales for assessing health professional students' attitudes toward interprofessional learning
A peer-reviewed research paper comparing the properties of the IEPS and the RIPLS for measuring attitudes of three health professions (medicine, physicain assistant studies and pharmacy).
MPOC: Measurement of Processes of Care
The Measure of Processes of Care (pronounced "em-pock") is a well-validated and reliable self-report measure of parents' perceptions of the extent to which the health services they and their child(ren) receive are family-centred. The original version of MPOC is a 56-item questionnaire; as of 1999 there is a shorter, 20-item version. MPOC has been used internationally in many evaluations of family-centred service.
Enabling Collaboration Within Health Systems
Enabling collaboration is presently a topic of great interest within the Canadian health system. Perhaps due to its inherent complexity, collaboration in not easily summarized in a single definition, nor has its efficacy been validated through empirical evidence. Until proven otherwise, an ongoing justification for improving collaboration in health systems remains that it intuitively makes sense.
Key factors in developing and delivering interprofessional education
Interprofessional education (IPE) has been advocated in a number of policy documents for nearly 30 years as the main route to enhancing collaboration. Consequently, there has been a steady growth in IPE activity in this country and abroad. Despite this expansion, literature reveals that the planning and delivery of IPE remains a localized and rather haphazard affair with little understanding of the factors that influence its development or implementation.
Interprofessional education for collaborative practice: Views from a global forum workshop
The Institute of Medicine’s Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education (IOM, 2013) report looks at examples of teamwork and collaboration in education and practice that use interprofessional education (IPE) to achieve better patient care; to obtain better health outcomes; and to increase the value of educational and health care systems relative to outcomes.
Learning from Bud: The Bright Future of IPE
Dr. Barbara Brandt delivered the Dedication of the DeWitt C. Baldwin Institute of Interprofessional Education on May 15th, 2014. The full text of that speech is presented here.
Medicine and nursing: A social contract to improve collaboration and patient-centred care?
While research has indicated that professionals can work in an effective manner spread across the continuum of care, professional biases, boundary protectionism and little opportunity to develop interprofessional competence has made effective collaboration extremely difficult (e.g.