A5078353271- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Dietetics, Nutrition, and Education
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
University of Otago
2014-2023
Université du Québec à Montréal
2023
Université de Montréal
2023
Université Laval
2023
Primary Health Care
2009-2017
Cairo University
2016
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
2016
Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
1988-2012
Ministry of Health
2005
Professional relationships between doctors and nurses have often been seen as problematic, a barrier to effective collaborative practice, yet little is known about the intrinsic nature of such in primary care context. This study set out explore roles of, between, currently working New Zealand settings. Using qualitative methodology, data were collected using in-depth interviews with 18 individual settings Wellington, Zealand. Doctors' nurses' perceptions their own each others' roles,...
Collaborative interprofessional practice is an important means of providing effective care to people with complex health problems. Interprofessional education (IPE) assumed enhance despite challenges demonstrate its efficacy. This study evaluated whether IPE programme changed students' attitudes teams and learning, self-reported effectiveness as a team member, perceived ability manage long-term conditions.A prospective controlled trial eleven-hour focused on conditions' management....
Background The nature of medical care at the end life and, in particular, way which caring is learned remain problematic for educators and profession. Recent work has indicated that doctors learn to care, an emotional intimate way, from people who are dying. Methods This paper reports on development a programme designed students their first clinical year spend time with person dying family. required produce portfolio assignment includes personal reflection experience. findings...
<h3>Background</h3> Although teamwork is known to optimise good health care, organisational arrangements and funding models can foster, discourage, or preclude functional teamworking. Despite a new, enhanced population-based system for primary care in New Zealand, bringing new opportunities more collaborative practice, fully implemented healthcare remains elusive. <h3>Aim</h3> To explore perceptions of interprofessional relationships, teamwork, patient Zealand practice. <h3>Design study</h3>...
Background: This article presents findings from a prospective, longitudinal cohort educational study investigating empathy communication in clinical consultations. It reports on changes students' self-report during medical undergraduate training, investigates how well peers can assess student competence motivational interviewing/brief interventions (MI/BI) skills and explores the relationship between peer- or tutor-assessments of competence.Methods: 72 students completed Jefferson Scale...
Interprofessional education (IPE) has been shown to enhance interprofessional practice among health professionals. Until recently there limited opportunity undertake such initiatives within existing pre-registration degree courses in New Zealand.This study aimed test the feasibility of delivering an component professional for medicine, physiotherapy and dietetics at University Otago, Wellington, Zealand.An case-based course (on chronic condition management) was developed by academic clinical...
It is important to understand what an interprofessional education (IPE) experience means students and makes it meaningful so that optimal use can be made of IPE opportunities resources. This article reports qualitative data from a larger study evaluating 11-hour programme which focused on long-term condition management. Qualitative analysis aimed explore students' perspectives the programme. Forty-one dietetics, medicine, physiotherapy, radiation therapy were invited participate in focus...
Objective To assess whether a preregistration interprofessional education (IPE) programme changed attitudes towards teamwork and team skills during health professionals’ final year of training first 3 years professional practice. Design Prospective, longitudinal, non-randomised trial. Setting Final at three academic institutions in New Zealand. Participants Students from eight disciplines eligible to attend the IPE were recruited (617/730) prior their training. 130 participants attended...
This paper explores attitudes to, and perceptions of, the impact of interprofessional postgraduate education for primary health care professionals, based on a postal survey 153 professionals undertaking qualifications in New Zealand. The response rate was 75% (114/153 responses); comprising 79 doctors, 28 nurses, 7 other professionals. As result their education, 92% (104/113) reported improvement own practice; 68% (72/106) positive influence workplace practice. Forty-eight percent (53/111)...
Objective: To better understand the day‑to‑day lived experiences of those adults with type 2 diabetes, in particular, their historical and current ability to self manage this condition. Design: This qualitative study utilised aspects both phenomenology grounded theory inform design, namely an iterative thematic content data collection analysis process. enabled identification emerging themes. Setting: Sample subjects all resided Whanganui, New Zealand were interviewed either own home,...
Interprofessional practice is recognised as an important element of safe and effective healthcare. However, few studies exist that evaluate how preregistration education contributes to interprofessional competencies, these competencies develop throughout the early years a health professional's career. This quasiexperimental study will gather longitudinal data during students' last year training their first 3 professional ongoing development influence including explicit (IPE) programme may...
Surveys are widely used in interprofessional education (IPE) research and these often collect free-text data. The potential contribution of data to analysis interpretation is missed through separate reporting qualitative quantitative results, or analyses being superficial limited subsets There little published guidance on how maximize the use integration comments with responses large datasets collected over multiple years. Analysis all comments, within context their related answers, enables...
Having interprofessional education during the undergraduate years is essential for building teamwork skills in general practice 'A team a small number of people with complementary who are committed to common purpose, performance goals, and approach which they hold themselves mutually accountable'. 1terprofessional leads better utilisation skill sets, enhances workflow, economic sustainability improves patient satisfaction, aim reduce duplication, delay, discontinuity mistakes.The need...
INTRODUCTION Interprofessional education (IPE) aims to prepare learners work in collaborative health-care teams. The University of Otago, Wellington has piloted, developed and expanded an IPE programme since 2011. An interprofessional teaching team alongside this programme. AIMS This study aimed understand the development a university-based over 4-year period generate insights aid such teams elsewhere. METHODS Two semi-structured audio-recorded educator focus groups were conducted at key...
Despite an ever-increasing burden of non-communicable diseases and overwhelming evidence that good nutrition improves outcomes it is difficult to know whether this reaching the general population. The purpose study was investigate health professionals in Tairāwhiti have sufficient education for their roles promotion beliefs held by were consistent with current literature. A particular interest enlist views on harms, benefits, possible barriers following plant-based diets. mixed-methods...
INTRODUCTION Youth health outcomes are poor in New Zealand and have a life-long impact on individuals, whānau (family) society. Little is known about how young people view their experiences of general practice care despite it being the most common place to access care. AIM This study sought explore peoples' selected, youth-friendly practice. METHODS In-depth individual interviews with six people. RESULTS Four themes were identified from narratives relation care: going doctor not easy for...
As part of a clinically based rotational undergraduate interprofessional programme, an assessment was devised which construed as being socially accountable. An with cohorts students from six different health professions, evaluated in number ways. Students completed pre and post questionnaires about many aspects the programme also participated focus groups. The social accountability key assignment emerged important for both community agencies that provided clinical experience students....
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Globally, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted need for better interprofessional collaboration and teamwork. When disciplines have worked together to undertake testing, deliver care administer vaccines, progress against COVID-19 been made. Yet, teamwork often not happened, wasting precious resources stretching health-care workforces. Continuing train health professionals during is challenging, particularly delivering education that uses...
In New Zealand undergraduate health professional degrees focus on aspects of indigenous (Maori) health. Formal and informal feedback suggests that for individual students the impact those components in respect Maori varies. Separate sequential interprofessional groups from seven professions participated an innovative immersive Interprofessional programme. All participating had prior exposure during their respective to theoretical perspectives At end each every 5-week long programme cohort...
Interprofessional education (IPE) programs for pre-registration health science students are largely offered within one institution including different schools or faculties. Sometimes in small regional institutions where there limited student numbers few professional training programs, larger do not offer particular it may be necessary to partner with other IPE. This study sought explore teacher perspectives of forming inter-institutional partnerships deliver IPE, particular, identify the...