Today's healthcare demands teamwork. In the old era of fee-for-service health delivery, teamwork was present but minimized by the individualistic nature of practice. With the advent of managed care ...

The Office of Interprofessional and Continuing Education aims to educate students on how to provide patient-centered care through a multi-discipline approach to build trusting patient-provider ...

In a recent editorial in The New York Times, Theresa Brown wrote about how clinical hierarchies and the impact of conflict between nurses and physicians can be deadly for a patient. She said "when ...

The University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno, along with UNR Med, Renown and several University Departments are working together to revolutionize nursing and medical education at Nevada.

To build a safer and more effective patient-centered and community and population oriented US health care system transformation of health professions education to prepare all health professions ...

At the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, our clinicians, researchers and community members continuously collaborate to create innovative content that can be implemented successfully in ...

A study found the use of interprofessional education improves students' knowledge and skill sets and promotes collaborative behaviors. Interprofessional education (IPE) may improve nursing and ...

Emergency department visits among patients with advanced solid tumors at a cancer center in Mexico City. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2018 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology ...

In a recent CMAJ news article, Wayne Kondro referred to a patient-centred collaborative care model adopted by delegates to the Canadian Medical Association's 140th General Council.1 The model's focus ...

Gérard Charl Filies works for UWC. But in the real world, health professionals and departments often slip into silo mentalities. And silos in healthcare, as US cardiologist Laurence Sparling writes, ...

Communicating with families is a core skill for neonatal clinicians, yet formal communication training rarely occurs. This study examined the impact of an intensive interprofessional communication ...