This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The following article was recently published in Medical Education Online:
Creating a Culture for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Professional Practice
C.A. Orchard, EdD, V. Curran, PhD, S. Kabene, PhD
Abstract: The future of the health system is dependent on health
professionals re-tooling the way we practice together. No longer can a
multi-disciplinary model support the complex health needs of many clients
nor can any one-health profession have all the knowledge needed to provide
total patient-centred care. However, our current education and health
systems are structured around a multi-disciplinary model of practice with
physicians or nurse practitioners as decision-makers and rarely are
clients included in care planning.True interdisciplinary practice is
defined as a partnership between a team of health professionals and a
client in a participa! tory, collaborative and coordinated approach to
shared decision-making around health issues,requires a revamping of how
future health professionals are educated and how the system can
accommodate shared decision-making. A client-centered collaborative
professional practice model is proposed in this paper as a means for
fostering and facilitating the culture for this change.
You can access it here.
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The following article was recently published in Medical Education Online:
Creating a Culture for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Professional Practice
C.A. Orchard, EdD, V. Curran, PhD, S. Kabene, PhD
Abstract: The future of the health system is dependent on health
professionals re-tooling the way we practice together. No longer can a
multi-disciplinary model support the complex health needs of many clients
nor can any one-health profession have all the knowledge needed to provide
total patient-centred care. However, our current education and health
systems are structured around a multi-disciplinary model of practice with
physicians or nurse practitioners as decision-makers and rarely are
clients included in care planning.True interdisciplinary practice is
defined as a partnership between a team of health professionals and a
client in a participa! tory, collaborative and coordinated approach to
shared decision-making around health issues,requires a revamping of how
future health professionals are educated and how the system can
accommodate shared decision-making. A client-centered collaborative
professional practice model is proposed in this paper as a means for
fostering and facilitating the culture for this change.
You can access it here.
