BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Currently available tools to measure teamwork, an essential component of primary care, are generally very resource intensive and thus cannot be administered frequently. To explore the possibility of developing a brief teamwork-assessment instrument, we first administered...
This book discusses the application of complex adaptive systems theory to the design and evaluation of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs). The three defining goals of PCMHs are to spread patient-care roles among healthcare team members, focus on disease prevention and include the patient in the...
February 21, 2018
Barbara F. Brandt, PhD and Erin P. Fraher, PhD, MPP
Presentation at Blending the Blues: A Collaboration with IPE4UNC and Duke AHEAD
Presentation Overview
Collaboration between Brandt and Fraher grew from a desire to forge a new, joint vision for the future...
The Institute of Medicine explores the existing evidence-base related to the education of health professionals in interdisciplinary teams, the educational and regulatory barriers to incorporating interdisciplinary teams in the academic and continuing education settings, proposed actions to overcome...
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC) is a completely student run clinic that offers free, high quality, comprehensive care to a patient population that otherwise lacks access to such services. The PNC achieves this through three main principles:
(1)interdisciplinary care, (2) student leadership...