Lobster and Learning
Some time ago, Shelley Cohen Konrad asked me to visit the University of New England to present to a Macy Foundation-sponsored summit focused on the Nexus of integrated practice and education. Within a comprehensive curriculum plan, Shelley and her colleagues have created an innovative community-based IPE program and a range of opportunities for students to learn teamwork skills. By hosting the summit, they envision a closer relationship with Maine’s practice community to strengthen their already robust IPE program.
Measuring the Difference: Interprofessional Education and Care in Clinical Settings
In this presentation, the authors discuss and compare two innovative models of interprofessional education, training and service delivery: The CHANNELS Project of the University of New England in Portland, Maine and the the Bridging the Disparities Gap project of the University of Missouri - Kansas City of Kansas City, Missouri.
The presentation was part of the Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Summit, sponsored by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and the Maine AHEC Network, held May 28th at the University of New England.
Cutting Medical Mistakes: UNE Tries Team Approach
When you're admitted to a hospital, the hope is that you will get better. But according to the Journal of Patient Safety, as many as 440,000 people every year die because of medical errors. That would make medical error the third leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer. These statisitics, combined with incentives under the Affordable Care Act to improve quality, are prompting medical schools to teach students to work in teams.
Interprofessional Collaboration Scale
The Interprofessional Collaboration Scale contains 13 items to measure three constructs: communication (5 items), accommodation (5 items), and isolation (3 items). The scale's novel feature is that it was conceived and written for multiple-group, round robin, rater judgements of target groups. For example, inpatient medical/surgical wards may be staffed by nurses, physicians, and allied health care professionals. The survey can be completed by nurses (raters) to make physicians and other health professionals targets of the items.
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).
