While most graduate health professions programs in the United States have accepted the Interprofessional Education Collaborative's core competencies for collaborative practice, there is no consistent way to integrate the competencies into courses of study already crowded with uniprofessional competencies. A potential negative effect of treating interprofessional education as an add-on is that learners will not engage deeply with the competencies required to work effectively in health care teams. To design an integrated model, one institution adopted a theory from the management literature that frames professional competence as a way of being, not simply a body of knowledge to master.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe increasing complexity of healthcare needs underlines the growing importance of interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) in enhancing quality of patient care. In particular, clinician educators play an influential role in advocating IPECP. The primary goal of our exploratory pilot study is to explore 34 clinician educators' attitudes towards IPECP by using the adapted 14-item Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale (ATHCTS) and 15-item Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth professions education programs can have direct effects on patients and communities as well as on learners. However, few studies have examined the patient and community outcomes of educational interventions. To better integrate education and health care delivery, educators and researchers would benefit from a unifying framework to guide the planning of educational interventions and evaluation of their impact on patients.
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