Interprofessional Health Education: A Literature Review
This review seeks to situate the contemporary Australian field of IPL/IPE within its history, nationally and internationally, in order to illuminate how it has taken the form and shape that it has, how it relates to international agendas in health and health professional education and shifts in the higher education sector, and to resource a research and development agenda for system-wide change. The review addresses the following questions:
Interprofessional Health Education in Australia: Report of the Launch of the Proposal The Way Forward
The national consultation undertaken in this project – Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice, Australia (L-TIPP, Aus) – revealed many examples of innovative and successful interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives developed across the Australian higher education sector.
Partnering with Patients, Families, and Communities: An Urgent Imperative for Health Care
This report outlines recommendations from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation conference "Patients, Families, and Communities: An Urgent Imperative for Health Care." The conference took place April 3 - 6, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia.
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: