What Constitutes Effective Interprofessional Education Amongst Health Related Disciplines : A Literature Review

A Review on Interprofessional Education in Health Professionals’ Training

Introduction: Interprofessional education (IPE) as one of the educational methods has been emphasized in many literature. It is believed that it can increase Interprofessional collaborations and improve the quality of patient care. The purpose of this study was to investigate the concept, teaching- learning process and effectiveness of IPE in health professionals’ training. Methods: This was ...

Health and social care professionals' attitudes to interprofessional working and interprofessional education: A literature review.

The healthcare setting is a rich learning environment for students to experience interprofessional working (IPW) and interprofessional education (IPE). However, opportunities for IPE are limited, and student experiences of effective IPW are varied. This raises the question of how IPW and IPE are valued by health or social care professionals. A search of the literature was carried out to identif...

What constitutes effective manual handling training? A systematic review.

BACKGROUND Injuries caused by manual handling are a major burden to society. Manual handling training programmes have been designed to reduce the likelihood of injury among the workforce; however, concerns have been raised over the efficacy of current manual handling training methods. AIMS To undertake a systematic review of the literature examining the effectiveness of different approaches t...

What Constitutes an Effective Representation?

This paper presents a taxonomy of 19 cognitive criteria for judging what constitutes effective representational systems, particularly for knowledge rich topics. Two classes of cognitive criteria are discussed. The first concerns access to concepts by reading and making inferences from external representations. The second class addresses the generation and manipulation of external representation...

What constitutes a great review?