Interprofessional education: A reform plan for collaborative

Interprofessional Education: A Reform Plan for Collaborative

Health‐care professionals come across several situations on a routine basis, wherein the lack of collaboration between different health professions is apparent. The focus of this paper is on revealing the effect of lack of interprofessional collaboration on the quality of patient care and safety of the patient. One example of the situation where interdisciplinary role can be beneficial is the a...

Interprofessional education for collaborative, patient-centred practice.

Interprofessional education has been defined as “occasions when two or more professions learn from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care” (CAIPE 1997). Much that has been written about interprofessional education (IPE) and the interprofessional team has concentrated on two or at most three professions, primarily medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Educational program...

Setting a research agenda for interprofessional education and collaborative practice in the context of United States health system reform.

Interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (CP) have been prolific areas of inquiry exploring research questions mostly concerned with local program and project assessment. The actual sphere of influence of this research has been limited. Often discussed separately, this article places IPE and CP in the same conceptual space. The interface of these form a nexus where new knowl...

Faculty Development for Continuing Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice.

This article proposes a framework for faculty development in continuing interprofessional education (CIPE) and collaborative practice. The framework is built on best practices in faculty development and CIPE. It was informed by local experience in the development, delivery, and evaluation of a faculty development program to promote capacity for dissemination of concepts relating to interprofess...

Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient-Centred Practice Research Synthesis Paper