Going "Back to the Future" at Collaborating Across Borders
As many of us prepare to travel to Vancouver next week for Collaborating Across Borders IV, we are already looking forward to the next installment of this premiere conference on interprofessional practice and education. Today, the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) announced the selection of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute as the host for Collaborating Across Borders V in fall 2015.
UB Gains Speed in Bridging Education and Practice
We all know the importance of interprofessional education and practice. What we need to learn is how to transform an academic curriculum so that it strengthens health students’ collaborative practice skills, demonstrates how to employ those skills in a professional environment, and fosters practice settings that not only welcome, but thrive on interprofessional and collaborative care. To this end, our task at hand is to marry interprofessional education with practice for current and future practitioners.
Introducing the National Advisory Council
The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education has selected 16 leaders from the fields of health practice and policy, business, learning and education, and academic research to serve as inaugural members of the center’s national advisory council. The council is a critical part of our effort to create a new alignment, or Nexus, between the practice and education communities to achieve improved health in a rapidly transforming marketplace.
History
History and background
For more than 50 years, health care leaders and educators have been interested in how collaborative teams can help improve health outcomes, but enthusiasm for putting the concept into practice has varied over the decades.
Nexus Innovation Network
There is a growing gap between how health professionals are trained and the real-world skills needed to deliver effective patient care. Our work aims to narrow that by creating a Nexus, a place where health professions education and health care delivery systems work together, sharing ideas and best practices that have the potential to meet the demands of transforming processes of care delivery and the challenges in educating and training the next generation of health professionals.
Planning Your Nexus
The National Center is committed to driving sustainable change in health, health care delivery and health professions education. That sustainability requires a new kind of collaboration and shared responsibility among education and practice partners at local, regional and national levels. We call this relationship the Nexus.
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We're working with leading organizations and experts around the world to advance our shared vision of better care, added value and healthier communities. Join us.
National Center Data Repository
An essential component to the Nexus Innovations Incubator Network’s success is a first-in-the-nation data repository focused on IPECP outcomes. Called the National Center Data Repository (NCDR), it is where incubator network members collect data on their own projects and upload de-identified data to contribute to the national understanding of the Nexus on Triple Aim outcomes.
The NCDR uses state-of-the-art analysis capabilities to address the challenge of lack of data to test the effectiveness and return on investment of interprofessional models.
Marketing Materials
The National Center will create and distribute marketing materials to assist leaders and advocates in "making the case" for interprofessional practice and education within their own institutions and communities.