No place like home redesign: home-based clinical care as an interprofessional training model for medical and pharmacy students.

No place like home redesign: home-based clinical care as an interprofessional training model for medical and pharmacy students. J Interprof Care. 2020 Aug 24;:1-7 Authors: Hatfield CL, Major AB, Purkiss J, LaCour-Chestnut F, Gill AC Abstract Proper program assessment is necessary to ensure the delivered curriculum aligns with the intended curriculum. No Place Like Home (NPLH) is an interprofessional experience in which a healthcare team provides clinical services to patients in a home environment. Following review of program evaluation data, we determined the original design of NPLH was not meeting the intended objectives, and NPLH was redesigned in January 2018. Changes include lengthening the experience, decreasing the team size, improving assessment tools and additional training for the preceptors. The revised curriculum includes a care team with a preceptor, a medical, and a pharmacy student who visit four to six patients on an assigned day. From May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019, there were 320 students who participated in NPLH. The preceptor assessments of students across the five objectives had mean scores of 3.4-3.7 on a 4 point scale indicating that on average preceptors placed students between Demonstrates Competence and Demonstrates Excellence for all objectives. When students were asked to compare their ability to collaborate interprofessionally after NPLH to the time before, 79% stated Somewhat Better Now or Much Better Now....
Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care - Category: Health Management Tags: J Interprof Care Source Type: research