Interprofessional learning

Learning in interprofessional teams: AMEE

This guide is for health and social care professionals who teach or guide others’ learning before and after qualification, in formal courses or the workplace. It clarifies the understanding of interprofessional learning and explores the concept of teams and team working. Illustrated by examples from practice, the practicalities of effective interprofessional learning are described, and the unde...

Professionalism (empathy, interprofessional collaboration, lifelong learning)

Interprofessional Learning: Reasons, Judgement, and Action

This article makes a number of interconnected arguments. First, spatially and temporally distributed project teams constitute a new form of interprofessional work and, as a corollary, a new site for interprofessional learning. Second, researchers in cultural-historical activity theory have generated some concepts and methods, for example, “placeless organisations” (Nardi); “object of activity” ...

Techniques in medical education Interprofessional learning

Glennys Parsell, John Bligh Summary Effective care in hospitals and in the community requires doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to work together to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients. In the UK, a shift in emphasis towards a primary care led service and recent changes to the ways in which healthcare is funded and organised, are profoundly affecting traditional patt...

Enhancing learning through an interprofessional project competition.

This article describes the process of using an interprofessional team project to address one of the most commonly occurring challenges in health care delivery--medication reconciliation. We describe the planning and execution of the process and the lessons learned from the experience. The intent of this article is to document the significance of each process and the importance of each member in...