Madeline H. Schmitt
Degree & Credential:
PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP
Title:
Professor Emerita
Organization:
University of Rochester School of Nursing
Profession:
Registered Nurse
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Madeline Schmitt is a nurse-sociologist, who, until retirement in 2005, was Professor and Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing and Interprofessional Education [IPE] at the University of Rochester (NY) School of Nursing. Dr. Schmitt has been prominent as a teacher, administrator, researcher, and mentor to students and faculty, especially in IPE Beginning in the 1970’s, she focused her scholarship on interprofessional collaborative practice models and IPE.
Subsequent to collaborative scholarship on teamwork and linking more effective teamwork to better care outcomes, Dr. Schmitt was one of two U.S. members of the WHO Task Force who co-authored the 2010 report, Framework for Action in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. In 2010, she chaired the expert panel that produced the report Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice on behalf of the leadership of six national professional
education associations (IPEC’s founding members). Dr. Schmitt is an Editor Emerita of the Journal of Interprofessional Care and a founding Board member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. She represented the American Academy of Nursing at the IOM Forum on Innovations in Health Professions Education for the first three years of the Forum. She served as an Ambassador and Community Moderator for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education and was named an interprofessional education “Pioneer” by the National Center in 2017.
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My Contributions
A listing of all contributions made to the National Center community.Contents
This editorial describes a supplement of the Journal of Interprofessional Care (JIC) which contains the 380 abstracts accepted for Collaborating Across Borders III (CAB III), a biennial US-Canadian conference, which was held in Tucson, Arizona on November 19-21, 2011. It was co-hosted by the...
This editorial provides an overview to a special issue of the Journal of Interprofessioinal Care focusing on the work of Dr. DeWitt C. "Bud" Baldwin, Jr. Through the interview and (re)publication of a few of Dr. Baldwin's papers, we hope to acquaint the readership of the Journal with some of his...
This report is organized in the following fashion: first, we provide key definitions and principles that guided us in identifying core interprofessional competencies. Then, we describe the timeliness of interprofessional learning now, along with separate efforts by the six professional education...
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 20-22, 1990 at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
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Through purposeful learning guided by the interprofessional collaborative practice competencies, health professionals will acquire needed knowledge and skills to work together in environments built on mutual respect and shared values, knowledge of each other's roles and responsibilities, and...
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