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Participant evaluation of an education module on interprofessional collaboration for students in healthcare studies

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, October 2015
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Title
Participant evaluation of an education module on interprofessional collaboration for students in healthcare studies
Published in
BMC Medical Education, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12909-015-0477-0
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Giannoula Tsakitzidis, Olaf Timmermans, Nadine Callewaert, Steven Truijen, Herman Meulemans, Paul Van Royen

Abstract

Interprofessional collaboration is considered a key-factor to deliver the highest quality of care. Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) assumes a model of working together, in particular with awareness of the process of interprofessional collaboration, to develop an integrated and cohesive answer to the needs of the client/family/population. Educational modules are developed in response to a perceived need to improve interprofessional collaboration for the benefit of patientcare. Up until 2005 no explicit module on interprofessional collaboration existed in the education programs of the Antwerp University Association (AUHA). During a decade the 'Interprofessional Collaboration In Healthcare (IPCIHC) - module' is organised and evaluated by its participants. One group, post-test design was used to gather data from the participating students using a structured questionnaire. Data was collected between March 2005 and March 2014 from participating final year students in healthcare educational programs. 3568 (84 % overall response) students evaluated the IPCIHC module from 2005 up to 2014. Over 80 % of the participants were convinced the IPCIHC increased their knowledge and changed their understanding that it will impact their future professional relationships, and felt a greater understanding about problem-solving in healthcare teams. Even though the results indicate that the goals of the IPCIHC module were achieved, less than 60 % of the participants experienced a change in attitude towards other professional groups. Despite the positive outcomes from the participants, the challenge still remains to keep on educating future healthcare providers in interprofessional collaboration in order to achieve an increase in interprofessional behaviour towards other professional groups. Research is needed to investigate the effectiveness of undergraduate programs on the quality and safety of patientcare in practice.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 134 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 34 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Student > Bachelor 11 8%
Lecturer 9 7%
Researcher 9 7%
Other 34 25%
Unknown 26 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 46 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 26 19%
Social Sciences 10 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 3%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 30 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 October 2015.
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#13,449,870
of 22,831,537 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#1,710
of 3,322 outputs
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#135,071
of 284,522 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#35
of 58 outputs
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