An interprofessional approach to improving paediatric medication safety
BACKGROUND:
Safe drug prescribing and administration are essential elements within undergraduate healthcare curricula, but medication errors, especially in paediatric practice, continue to compromise patient safety. In this area of clinical care, collective responsibility, team working and communication between health professionals have been identified as key elements in safe clinical practice. To date, there is limited research evidence as to how best to deliver teaching and learning of these competencies to practitioners of the future.
METHODS:
How does culture show? A case study of an international and interprofessional course in palliative care
Research shows slow improvement of the care of dying persons and their significant others. One of the reasons for that is the lack of palliative care education as an integral part of health professionals' undergraduate education. The paper discusses an attempt to develop innovative forms of palliative care education: an international, interprofessional and IT-supported undergraduate course for Swedish and Slovenian students of nursing, medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology and social work, which has been developed jointly by the two authors.
Preparation of educators involved in interprofessional education
To achieve effective interprofessional learning there must be effective teaching. In this study we analyse the impact of a Masters level two day course designed to prepare teachers for their role(s) in the design development and facilitation of interprofessional student groups. Since its inception the course has run periodically each year attracting over 70 health and social care teachers from academic and practice settings.
Interprofessional education in gross anatomy: experience with first-year medical and physical therapy students at Mayo Clinic
Interprofessional education (IPE) in clinical practice is believed to improve outcomes in health care delivery. Integrating teaching and learning objectives through cross discipline student interaction in basic sciences has the potential to initiate interprofessional collaboration at the early stages of health care education. Student attitudes and effectiveness of IPE in the context of a combined gross anatomy course for first-year students in Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees curricula were evaluated.
Knowledge and perception of physiotherapy by final year medical students of a Nigerian university
BACKGROUND:
It has been shown that multidisciplinary interactions have become a feature of the changing medical education system. It is not clear to what extent medical students have been integrated into this newer model, more especially at the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos (CMUL), AIM: To assess the level of knowledge and perception of physiotherapy by the final year medical students of CMUL about physiotherapy.
MATERIAL AND METHODS:
A 'RIPPER' Project: advancing rural inter-professional health education at the University of Tasmania
OBJECTIVES:
To develop and evaluate a classroom-based curriculum designed to promote interprofessional competencies by having undergraduate students from various health professions work together on system-based problems using quality improvement (QI) methods and tools to improve patient-centered care.
DESIGN:
Development of a program for improving interprofessional relationships through intentional conversations in primary care
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800284
A pilot study evaluating an interprofessional education workshop for undergraduate health care students
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21486128
Silos to systems: three models for developing geriatric interprofessional education
OBJECTIVE: To describe three interprofessional education (IPE) programs in geriatrics and to encourage senior care pharmacists' innovation and participation in IPE teaching.
DESIGN: Description of three geriatric IPE programs showing how pharmacy faculty along with colleagues in other health professions established, conducted, and evaluated their respective IPE programs.
An interprofessional pediatric prescribing workshop
OBJECTIVE:
To design, implement, and evaluate an interprofessional learning workshop on pediatric prescribing.
DESIGN:
An interactive workshop on pediatric prescribing was designed and delivered by pediatricians and pharmacists to fourth-year medical and pharmacy students on 3 university campus settings. Students were assigned to either interprofessional workshop groups (pharmacy and medical students) or non-interprofessional workshop groups (medical students only).
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