Open Access‘We might as well be speaking different languages’: an innovative interprofessional education tool to teach and assess communication skills critical to patient safety
Author(s) -
Colleen Gillespie,
Jennifer Adams,
Kathleen Hanley,
Ellen Wagner,
Amara Shaker-Brown,
M. Prasad Naidu,
Adina Kalet,
Sondra Zabar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
bmj simulation and technology enhanced learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2056-6697
DOI - 10.1136/bmjstel-2014-000014
Subject(s) - medical education , interprofessional education , core competency , health care , set (abstract data type) , patient safety , consistency (knowledge bases) , medicine , graduate medical education , psychology , nursing , accreditation , computer science , business , marketing , artificial intelligence , economics , programming language , economic growth
All practicing health professionals must be able to communicate effectively with their colleagues around the care of patients. Better communication between health professionals not only improves patient outcomes, but also cuts down on costly and unnecessary tests or healthcare services. At New York University (NYU), we have addressed the need for interprofessional education (IPE) by incorporating a set of interprofessional objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) cases into our performance-based assessment programme to expand the educational tools for interprofessional collaborative (IPC) practice, assessment and feedback.