As health care reform proceeds and primary care is transformed, many practices are considering integration of behavioral health services to improve access and quality. In order to work effectively in primary care settings, behavioral health providers must adopt practice patterns and skill sets...
In April 2015, the Macy Foundation hosted a conference which issued a series of recommendations for health professions schools and healthcare organizations around the use of existing and emerging technologies to enhance health professions education and build a “continuously learning health system.”
Objective
The purpose of this project was to prepare advanced students (dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and occupational therapy) to be facilitators for interprofessional small groups and evaluate them compared to faculty facilitators.
Methods
The Interprofessional Leadership and Facilitation...
Background
Team effectiveness is often explained on the basis of input-process-output (IPO) models. According to these models a relationship between organizational culture (input = I), interprofessional teamwork (process = P) and job satisfaction (output = O) is postulated. The aim of this study...
In this Journal of Nursing Education editorial, Barbara Brandt and Amy Barton describe the impact of the National Center's "Accelerating Interprofessional Community-Based Education and Practice" Initiative and the implementation across 16 schools of nursing in the Unites States, each partnering...