Interprofessional Collaboration: A Qualitative Study of Non-Physician Perspectives on Resident Competency

Abstract

Discussion of how physician trainees can best learn to collaborate as members of an interprofessional team must include non-physician perspectives. Training designed to provide medical students and residents with a better understanding of non-physician roles and to enhance mutual support and communication skills may be critical in achieving the AAMC's goals of making physicians effective members of interprofessional teams, and thus improving patient-centered care. We hope that medical educators will include these areas identified as important by non-physicians in targeted team training for their learners.

Nurse-Doctor Co-Teaching: A Pilot Study of the Design, Development, and Implementation of Structured Interprofessional Co-Teaching Sessions

“…Joint problem solving (When you do speak up on rounds, how often do you feel that your concerns are heard?). 2 The questions utilized in the surveys reflect themes present in published validated scales for collaboration. 25 …”

“… 1 High levels of interprofessional collaboration and communication have been shown to lead to better patient outcomes, improved patients’ satisfaction, as well as higher job satisfaction for nurses and doctors. 2–5 A controlled trial of structured interdisciplinary rounds on a medical teaching unit has been shown to improve measures of nurse collaboration. 6 Collaboration is a shared partnership that involves cooperation, communication, trust, respect, and understanding.…”

“…Nurses and doctors encounter barriers to collaboration, such as the historical hierarchy that exists in the medical setting, as well as a misunderstanding of each other’s roles, knowledge, and responsibilities. 2 , 8 , 9 We recognized the utility of opportunities that involve nurses and doctors equally and actively, not only in clinical care, but also in co-teaching and learning together.…”

Integrating Diverse Disciplines to Enhance Interprofessional Competency in Healthcare Delivery

“…Informatics students consider important hospital processes which include EHRs and other analytical workflows. Students were given a structured environment to share clinical rationale, ask for input, and seek joint problem solving; these are skills which contribute to a successful and collaborative team [30]. Further, both simulations allowed students to better understand the roles of their clinical and non-clinical peers, a recognized knowledge gap for many medical students [31].…”

General Practitioners' Propensity to Cooperate With Other Health Professionals in the Management of Patients With Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy: A Cross-sectional Study.

“…Our results indicate that most cooperative GPs have an interest in continuing training. The inclusion of multiprofessional courses in training programs for health students in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and other disciplines, may lead to a better comprehension of the roles and skills of each profession and of the potential synergies to be gained in interprofessional cooperations [8,33]. The rapid development of multiprofessional medical centers in France and elsewhere is an opportunity to stimulate and facilitate such collaborations.…”