TY - JOUR
T1 - Changing the future of health professions
T2 - Embedding interprofessional education within an academic health center
AU - Blue, Amy V.
AU - Mitcham, Maralynne
AU - Smith, Thomas
AU - Raymond, John
AU - Greenberg, Raymond
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - Institutions are increasingly considering interprofessional education (IPE) as a means to improve health care and reduce medical errors in the United States. Effective implementation of IPE within health professions education requires a strategic institutional approach to ensure longevity and sustainability. In 2007, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) established Creating Collaborative Care (C3), an IPE initiative that takes a multifaceted approach to weaving interprofessional collaborative experiences throughout MUSC's culture to prepare students to participate in interprofessional, collaborative health care and research settings.In this article, the authors describe C3's guiding conceptual foundation and student learning goals. They present its implementation framework to illustrate how C3 is embedded within the institutional culture. It is housed in the provost's office, and an overarching implementation committee functions as a central coordinating group. Faculty members develop and implement C3 activities across professions by contributing to four collaborating domains-curricular, extracurricular, faculty development, and health care simulation-each of which captures an IPE component. The authors provide examples of IPE activities developed by each domain to illustrate the breadth of IPE at MUSC. The authors believe that MUSC's efforts, including the conceptual foundation and implementation framework, can be generalized to other institutions intent on developing IPE within their organizational cultures.
AB - Institutions are increasingly considering interprofessional education (IPE) as a means to improve health care and reduce medical errors in the United States. Effective implementation of IPE within health professions education requires a strategic institutional approach to ensure longevity and sustainability. In 2007, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) established Creating Collaborative Care (C3), an IPE initiative that takes a multifaceted approach to weaving interprofessional collaborative experiences throughout MUSC's culture to prepare students to participate in interprofessional, collaborative health care and research settings.In this article, the authors describe C3's guiding conceptual foundation and student learning goals. They present its implementation framework to illustrate how C3 is embedded within the institutional culture. It is housed in the provost's office, and an overarching implementation committee functions as a central coordinating group. Faculty members develop and implement C3 activities across professions by contributing to four collaborating domains-curricular, extracurricular, faculty development, and health care simulation-each of which captures an IPE component. The authors provide examples of IPE activities developed by each domain to illustrate the breadth of IPE at MUSC. The authors believe that MUSC's efforts, including the conceptual foundation and implementation framework, can be generalized to other institutions intent on developing IPE within their organizational cultures.
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U2 - 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181e53e07
DO - 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181e53e07
M3 - Article
C2 - 20671454
AN - SCOPUS:77955315139
SN - 1040-2446
VL - 85
SP - 1290
EP - 1295
JO - Academic Medicine
JF - Academic Medicine
IS - 8
ER -