Bringing down the Berlin Wall in academia

Shia, Nessie; Clarke, J. A

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“…Following the calls for increased interprofessional collaboration within the national healthcare systems, there have been attempts at providing interprofessional education during professional training in England, Australia, and Canada. There is some literature evaluating this training [18,33,34]. This research found that although interprofessional education is complex and difficult to evaluate [35], it appears that there are benefits to healthcare workers training with professionals outside their own disciplines [5,36] that translate into better patient care.…”

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Interprofessional Relationships in the Field of Obesity: Data from Canada

Godley

Russell‐Mayhew²

2010

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Background: While it is generally acknowledged that an interprofessional approach is necessary to treat and prevent obesity, there have been few empirical studies examining the working relationships of professionals in the obesity field.Methods: In this article social network analysis is used to examine the working relationships of 111 attendees, representing eleven different health professions, at the first National Obesity Summit in Canada. We assessed the extent of engagement in interprofessional relations across four activities: discussion, gathering information, providing care, and conducting research. We also examined attitudes toward interprofessional practice.Findings: On average, respondents reported that approximately 75% of the people they work with are from other professions. Attitudes toward interprofessional practice were generally positive, and did not vary significantly across professions. Interestingly, attitudes were not related to actual interprofessional relations in our sample. In terms of work type, we found that respondents who were engaged in both clinical and research work had the largest networks and had the highest percentage of interprofessional contacts in their discussion and research networks.Conclusions: Overall, the results suggest that within our sample of professionals working in the field of obesity, interprofessional practice is held in high regard as a concept. The results also suggest that members of professions that combine both research and clinical work are most likely to engage in interprofessional relationships. This article illustrates the utility of social network analysis to assess the extent of interprofessional relationships among those working in a particular healthcare field.

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Interprofessional Relationships in the Field of Obesity: Data from Canada

Godley

Russell‐Mayhew²

2010

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Interprofessional attitudes and perceptions: Results from a longitudinal controlled trial of pre-registration health and social care students in Scotland

McFadyen¹,

Webster²,

Maclaren³

et al. 2010

Journal of Interprofessional Care

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This study made use of a controlled longitudinal design to assess the impact on pre-registration health and social care students of an interprofessional intervention on the attitudes to and perceptions of interprofessional ideals. Evaluation, over four years, of Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Physiotherapy and Radiography students was performed using the adapted versions of the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) and the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS). Baseline samples of the control and experimental groups were 260 and 313 respectively. Support for Interprofessional Education (IPE) appears high but possibly idealistically so initially. Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) models were used to assess intervention effects as well as any possible profession or time effects. The intervention was found to have had a significant effect on five of the measured sub-scales and the professions were found to react in a significantly different way on four of the sub-scales. The inclusion of a control group has confirmed previous findings from other studies but also highlights the possible effects of the general learning and teaching methodologies employed within various professions as well as the need for research into the influence of the timing, duration, style and content of clinical placement periods.

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Bringing down the Berlin Wall in academia

Cited by 2 publications

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Interprofessional Relationships in the Field of Obesity: Data from Canada

Interprofessional Relationships in the Field of Obesity: Data from Canada

Interprofessional attitudes and perceptions: Results from a longitudinal controlled trial of pre-registration health and social care students in Scotland

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