Dr John Horder was both a past President of the General Practice with Primary Health Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the founder of CAIPE, serving as its first Chairman then President .These organisations share his values. John was born in 1919. He initially intended to become a musician but after going… Read More »
Authors and affiliations at bottom of article Introduction Physician anesthesiologists and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) have co-existed for over 100 years. The relationship between them has often not been the most collegial. This interprofessional conflict has manifested in situations in which the practice of CRNAs has been both legally challenged and restricted by… Read More »
The word ‘community’ gets used quite frequently. Now, so much to the point that any individual working for a business with social media expertise, if there is such a thing, can often be referred to as a ‘community manager’. Sometimes, this can take away from the importance of the word community, but also in learning… Read More »
Authors and affiliations – see bottom of article Introduction A major component of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s attempt to improve primary care practices has been care coordination post-hospital discharge (McDonald 2007, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2014). The transition between the hospital discharge and resuming of care by the primary… Read More »
Interprofessional Education and Medical Libraries: Partnering for Success by Mary E. Edwards Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, USA, 2016 222 pages, $95.00 ISBN 978-1-44226-389-5 Reviewed by Traci-lee Christianson ,Student, Department of Applied Psychology Concordia University of Edmonton Interprofessional Education and Medical Libraries: Partnering for Success is edited by Mary E. Edwards, the reference and… Read More »
Interdisciplinary Discourse Communicating Across Disciplines Seongsook Choi & Keith Richards. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 300 pages, $99.00 / ISBN: 978-1- 137-47039-3 Review by: Bronte Diduck, Department of Applied Psychology, Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada This book is appropriate for anyone seeking to implement interdisciplinary practice across a multidisciplinary team (rather than… Read More »
During my 20+ year engagement in the interprofessional field – predominately as a researcher, but also as a teacher, faculty developer, journal editor and learner – I have witnessed a steady year-on-year growth of interprofessional education and practice activities – across the globe. Encouragingly, during this period, I have seen colleagues develop and implement a… Read More »
Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practices. Dawn Forman, Marion Jones, & Jill Thistlethwaite (Eds). Palgrave, Macmillan, UK. 2016. 359 pages. ISBN 978-1-137-53744-7 The editors introduce the importance of interprofessional practices and collaborative techniques in order to provide high quality care regarding healthcare and evaluation. The use of these practices will… Read More »
If you happen to work in health care, you are bound to encounter a medical student at some point. You may have been one yourself, you may have been the nurse tutor that worked alongside one or you may have been that professor that tried your best but realized that one particular student was a… Read More »
Written by Dr Anthony Breitbach PhD ATC, Associate Professor and Director of the Athletic Training Program in the Doisy College of Health Sciences at Saint Louis University @SLU_AT Teamwork and collaboration are highly valued in athletics, but what about with the health professionals who care for the athletes? I have had… Read More »