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Interdisciplinary Healthcare Education: Fact or Fiction?

Author(s) -

David D. Allen,

Mark A. Penn,

Lois Margaret Nora

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

american journal of pharmaceutical education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.796

H-Index - 63

eISSN - 1553-6467

pISSN - 0002-9459

DOI - 10.5688/aj700239

Subject(s) - health care , mindset , patient safety , medical education , teamwork , quality (philosophy) , nursing , psychology , medicine , public relations , political science , computer science , law , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence

The focus of our title is education, but the notion of interdisciplinary healthcare is not a new idea. Indeed, authors Given and Simmons entitled their provocative article from 1977, “The Interdisciplinary Health-Care Team: Fact or Fiction.”1 The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Healthcare System for the 21st Century,2 recognized the need for an interdisciplinary approach for optimal patient outcomes. The report also emphasized that healthcare practitioners will need to adopt new skills and approaches to patient care delivery and their interactions with one another. While not impossible, doing so in the workplace will require significant training and a shift of mindset. Clearly, this type of change needs to be adopted and implemented.

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