Interprofessional Education: Has Its Time Come?

摘要: The call for increased emphasis on interprofessional education to promote the understanding of other health professional roles and encourage collaborative practice, is not new. In 1978, World Health Organization identified as an important component primary healthcare.1 More recently, ongoing need human resources, attention safety in care, awareness importance work satisfaction improve retention recruitment have renewed efforts this area. Interprofessional prelicensure students seen a foundational way prepare future practice. Development delivery curricula, however, challenging. Curricula cannot be developed isolation, students' timetables geographical locations are often conflicting, evaluation tools that assess competence meaningful scarce. Typically, debate about essential curricular content, perceived important, but secondary competing content areas. This special edition Journal Physical Therapy Education showcases innovations addressed these issues. Bainbridge colleagues describe development national competency framework. As they note, common competencies across professions difficult task ensure consistency approaches schools departments assist educators planning their curricula. framework useful starting point curricula along continuum learning from continuing education. Shifting model requires change culture. Swisher highlight 2 different organizational models discuss structures supports necessary sustain long-term cultural shift. Their article highlights many challenges physical therapist encounter trying facilitate programs. One strategy identify areas curriculum which already occurring can made more explicit. Similarly, there educational events only altered slightly effectively incorporate learning. provides some examples both strategies. Clinical natural opportunity learn roles. Recent reviews effectiveness suggests authenticity experience essential,2 thus reinforcing practicing skills setting contextually relevant. Dubouloz innovative university clinic focuses care. offers variety experiences, including 1-2 day observational assessments, team projects address community promotion need. …