Interprofessional team practices, attitudes, and educational experiences of medical faculty
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22057593
"Knowing more about the other professions clarified my own profession".
The purpose of this study was to compare which learning outcomes relating to an Interprofessional Training Unit (ITU) experience were found to be most important by students and by alumni. A cohort of 428 students in the ITU was asked to write three short statements describing the most important learning outcomes from the ITU. Alumni from the same cohort were after graduation asked the same question. Furthermore, they were asked to fill out a 12-item questionnaire. The statements concerning learning outcome were analysed qualitatively and categorized.
Impact of a rural interprofessional experience in rural communities on medical and pharmacy students
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Preparation for becoming members of health care teams: findings from a 5-year evaluation of a student interprofessional training ward
SETTING:
An orthopaedic interprofessional training ward manned by students at a University Hospital.
OBJECTIVE:
To assess to what extent students from different undergraduate programmes evaluated the effects of a 2-week rotation at the ward on their professional roles and the value of teamwork within health care.
METHOD:
Promoting interprofessional collaboration: pharmacy students teaching current and future prescribers about Medicare Part D
BACKGROUND: Nearly all health professional students and prescribers, regardless of specialty, will care for older adults who are enrolled in or eligible for the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit. Given the growing numbers of older adults, the increased burden of chronic disease, and the escalating costs of health care, health professional students and prescribers across disciplines should learn strategies to promote cost-effective prescribing and collaborate with pharmacists who are experts in medication use and costs.
Interaction in online interprofessional education case discussions
This study investigated online interaction within a curriculum unit at the University of Toronto, Canada that included an interprofessional case study discussion in a mixed-mode (face-to-face and online) format. Nine of the 81 teams that completed the four-day curriculum were selected for detailed review based on the attitudes students expressed on a survey about the value of collaborating online for enhancing their appreciation of other health care professions. Five of the teams selected were 'positive' and four were 'negative'.
Students' approaches to learning in clinical interprofessional context
BACKGROUND: Health care professionals are supposed to work in teams. Students in health care need to learn how to collaborate during their undergraduate education. Interprofessional learning environments, where collaboration is necessary, may be differently accepted by students depending on their approach to learning.
AIM: We investigated health care students' evaluations of interprofessional clinical training in relation to their study orientations.
Impact of professional cultures on students' perceptions of interprofessionalism: some Norwegian experiences
Professionals bring their own personal and professional culture, competence, and interaction styles to the work setting. This study explores how undergraduate students (n = 619) at five different professional qualification programs from two Norwegian university colleges perceived interprofession education and collaboration (interprofessionalism). The student groups were drawn from nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, biomedical laboratory science, and radiography.
Peer-to-peer interprofessional health policy education for Medicare part D
OBJECTIVES:
To determine whether a peer-to-peer education program was an expedient and effective approach to improve knowledge and promote interprofessional communication and collaboration.
DESIGN:
Trained pharmacy students taught nursing students, medical students, and medical residents about the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit (Part D), in 1- to 2-hour lectures.
ASSESSMENT:
Limiting life-sustaining treatment in German intensive care units: a multiprofessional survey
PURPOSE:
Deciding about the limitation of life-sustaining treatment (LST) is a major challenge for intensive care medicine. The aim of the study was to investigate the practices and perspectives of German intensive care nurses and physicians on limiting LST.
METHODS:
We conducted an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire survey among the 268 nurses and 95 physicians on all 10 intensive care units of the Munich University Hospital, Germany.
RESULTS: