2013 Conference Recommendations
Transforming Patient Care: Aligning Interprofessional Education with Clinical Practice Redesign outlines a series of recommendations to align healthcare education and practice, providing immediate action steps to link interprofessional education and collaborative care.
The recommendations stem from a January 2013 Macy Conference where leaders in health professions education and healthcare delivery came together to discuss how they might align their efforts.
Macy Foundation Conference on Interprofessional Education
In April 2012, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation convened all of its grantees working in IPE.
This monograph provides an overview of the working sessions, panel discussions and summaries of the grantees’ IPE work.
Team Based Competencies: Building a Shared Foundation For Education and Clinical Practice
Conference proceedings from the Team-Based Competencies: Building a Shared Foundation For Education and Clinical Practice conference. The conference took place February 16-17, 2011 in Washington, D.C. and was hosted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and co-sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the ABIM Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
This report outlines an action plan to solidify team-based competencies and advance interprofessional education.
Educating Nurses and Physicians: Toward New Horizons
In June 2010, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching hosted a workshop/conference in Palo Alto, CA to advance new models for inter-professional education within the nation’s academic health centers. The two foundations believe that if nursing, medical, and other health professions students learn jointly in clinical settings, as graduates they will improve patient outcomes by working more collaboratively, communicating better with each other, and fostering a health care delivery system that assures quality and patient safety.
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).