This quantitative study provided data to establish the adoption rates of interprofessional education in didactic settings, interprofessional collaborative practice in clinical settings,and assess administrator attitudes and perceived barriers toward interprofessional education. Administrators in the purview of 24 health science professions in United States sub-baccalaureate health science programs responded to a survey about administrator and school type characteristics, the prevalence of interprofessional education in health science programs, timelines of adoption, and if their schools collaborate with universities and academic... مشاهده بیشتر
Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important step in advancing health professional education for many years and has been endorsed by the Institute of Medicine as a mechanism to improve the overall quality of health care. IPE has also become an area of focus for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), with several groups, including these authors from the AACP Interprofessional Education Task Force, working on developing resources to student competencies and objectives for IPE, barriers to... مشاهده بیشتر
Interprofessional education, where students from two or more health professions learn from, with, and about one another, is one approach to prepare health professionallearners for the collaborative practice-ready workforce currently desired in health care.
Collaborative, interprofessional practice is necessary to provide safe, high quality,accessible, patient-centered care with improved outcomes for individuals, families, andcommunities. A review of the literature related to interprofessional education,competency-based education, and use of interprofessional education competencies incurriculum design is provided. To guide educators in... مشاهده بیشتر
“An interprofessional pain curriculum provides a common basis for different professions to learn the same language, a shared biopsychosocial conceptual framework and a basic understanding of pain mechanisms, conditions, and principles of management.”
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