Interprofessional learning where medical students learn to work in tandem with allied health professionals such as nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and more is essential to medical education today.
Though the implementation of CIPE trainings has increased since the turn of the millennium, interprofessional continuing medical education is still a relatively new phenomenon in Germany.> By means of the key informant interviews we identified N = 85 CIPE trainings for health care professionals.
There is increasing recognition of the importance of interprofessional education in medical education [ 1], and of the need to assess the performance of medical professionals working as part of a larger interprofessional team [ 2, 3].
Mental health modules will be integrated in the nurse practitioner Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning course, as well as in various clinical courses.Challenges and lessons learned, including efforts to foster active interprofessional learning among medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students, are described.
CAM: Complementary and alternative medicine; C/P: Curriculum/program; IPC: Interprofessional collaboration; MD: Medical degree; PhD: Philosophy Doctor; UME Undergraduate Medical Educationn.
Multiple care failings in hospitals have led to calls for increased interprofessional training in medical education to improve multi-disciplinary teamwork.
The intervention addresses a Chronic Care Model by combining an interprofessional team-based medical care, patient self-management, life skills development and disease-specific education, with a focus on physical activity and nutrition.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study assessing the effect of a specific training program on interprofessional skills in medical students enrolled in an Italian university.
Teaching palliative care of the elderly to an interprofessional group of medical and nursing students can help to provide better care as acknowledged by the ministry of health and its expert panels.
