BACKGROUND: Patient-focused care provided by an interprofessional team has long been presented as the preferred method of primary care delivery. Community pharmacists should and can provide leadership for many clinical and managerial activities within the primary care team.
OBJECTIVE: To determine...
The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (Toronto Rehab) is a current leader in the movement of
interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives in Ontario, Canada. Nine students from seven different healthcare disciplines, including medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy,...
The goals of this quasi-experimental pilot study were to test an assessment tool designed to evaluate students' teamwork skills, and to assess the effectiveness of an interprofessional education (IPE) course. Participants were health professional students (physical therapy, pharmacy, dental and...
Throughout this century there have been many efforts to reform the medical curriculum. These efforts have largely been unsuccessful in producing fundamental changes in the training of medical students. The author challenges the traditional notion that changes to medical education are most...
The study was done to obtain information about the attitude toward IPC among basic science medical students and note differences, if any, among different subgroups. Study was conducted among first to fifth semester students during July 2015 using the previously validated Jefferson Scale of...