Usefulness of Interprofessional Education (Tsurumai-Meijo IPE) in Program Collaborating with Simulated Patients.

Usefulness of Interprofessional Education (Tsurumai-Meijo IPE) in Program Collaborating with Simulated Patients. Yakugaku Zasshi. 2017;137(6):733-744 Authors: Goto A, Hanya M, Yoshimi A, Uchida M, Takeuchi S, Aida N, Suematsu M, Abe K, Yasui H, Kamei H, Noda Y Abstract  Collaboration with multiple healthcare professionals is important to provide safer and higher quality care. Interprofessional education (IPE) promotes the practice of team-based care. The establishment of Tsurumai-Meijo IPE, including interprofessional education and practice (IPEP) and video-teaching materials, was conducted in collaboration with school of medicine/nursing in Nagoya University and Fujita Health University, because Meijo University does not have its own clinical settings and faculties except for pharmacy. In the established Tsurumai-Meijo IPE, pharmacy, medicine, and nursing students interviewed simulated patients (SP) together or separately and practiced team-based care through Tsurumai-Meijo IPEP. Students could learn in advance and on their own about each professional's knowledge related to patient care by using video-teaching materials from the Meijo IPE homepage. Using a questionnaire survey at the end of program, this study was examined whether Tsurumai-Meijo IPEP, and video-teaching materials were useful for understanding importance of team-based care. More than 83% of students indicated that Tsurumai-Meijo IPE is useful on future clinical pra...
Source: Yakugaku Zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Tags: Yakugaku Zasshi Source Type: research