Author Archives: JICare

“Developing Multiprofessional Health Educators of the Future” was a radical new conference that brought together healthcare workers from across the range of professional backgrounds, levels of experience and educational modalities. It considered multiple good practice initiatives for healthcare educators, trainees and students.   The conference was planned jointly between the London and the South East Local Education and TrainingBoards (LETB) and was held on 7 July 2015 at the Kia… Read More »

While evidence-based practice (EBP) has become an essential component of training in a wide range of healthcare professions, a textbook for beginning practitioners was largely missing. Howlett, Rogo, and Shelton authored Evidence-Based Practice for Health Professionals: An Interprofessional Approach to engage student audiences from rehabilitation, medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and public health programs. The text… Read More »

Anne Fadiman, the author and narrator of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Culture, shares the story of Lia Lee, a young Hmong girl with severe epilepsy, to demonstrate the detrimental impact of cultural misunderstanding between families and their doctors. This book… Read More »

Clinical systolic heart failure (HF) guidelines specify recommendations for ACE inhibitors (ACEI), angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) and beta blockers according to doses used in clinical trials. However, many HF patients remain suboptimally treated. Crissinger and colleagues sought to determine which provider type, between an interprofessional HF team, non-HF cardiologists and primary care physicians (PCP), most… Read More »

The Institute of Medicine identified interprofessional education (IPE) as a key innovation for achieving the triple aim of better care, better outcomes and reduced health care costs. Yet, a shortage of qualified faculty and difficulty with aligning learners’ schedules often prevent sustainable and scalable IPE.  A virtual IPE intervention was developed to circumvent these barriers… Read More »

Team-based healthcare delivery models, which emphasize care coordination, patient engagement, and utilization of health information technology, are emerging. To achieve these models, expertise in interprofessional education, collaborative practice across professions, and informatics is essential. A recent case study by Rajamani and colleagues from informatics programs in the Academic Health Center (AHC) at the University of… Read More »

Understanding the roles and responsibilities of different healthcare professionals allows for collaborative care to occur.  A recent study by Roberts and Shamus evaluated a student-designed, case-based educational module about the roles and responsibilities of occupational therapists (OTs) designed to increase the knowledge of occupational therapy among medical students. The study used a quasi-experimental, pre-/post-test design.… Read More »

In a recent quasi-experimental pilot study, Emmert and Cai tested an assessment tool designed to evaluate students’ teamwork skills, and assessed the effectiveness of an interprofessional education (IPE) course.  Participants were health professional students (physical therapy, pharmacy, dental and osteopathic medicine) 24 of whom were second-year students who had previously taken part in an IPE… Read More »

A previous survey distributed to medical school deans in the Western Pacific Region (WPR) showed positive attitudes toward collaborative practice and interprofessional education (IPE). Makino et al.’s recent survey built on this, aiming to clarify the present state of IPE and the attitudes of nursing school deans in the WPR. The modified Attitudes Toward Health… Read More »

Clinical systolic heart failure (HF) guidelines specify recommendations for ACE inhibitors (ACEI), angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) and beta blockers according to doses used in clinical trials. However, many HF patients remain suboptimally treated. Crissinger and colleagues recently conducted a retrospective chart review to determine which provider type, between an interprofessional HF team, non-HF cardiologists and… Read More »