Rowthorn Virginia, Olsen Jody
Co-Director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore Global Health Interprofessional Council and Deputy Director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore Center for Global Education Initiatives.
J Law Med Ethics. 2014 Winter;42(4):550-63. doi: 10.1111/jlme.12175.
Global health is by definition and necessity a collaborative field; one that requires diverse professionals to address the clinical, biological, social, and political factors that contribute to the health of communities, regions, and nations. While much work has been done in recent years to define the field of global health and set forth discipline-specific global health competencies, less has been done in the area of interprofessional global health education. This paper documents the results of a roundtable that was convened to study the need for an interprofessional team skills competency domain for global health students. The paper sets forth a preliminary set of team competencies based on existing scholarship and the results of the roundtable. Once an agreed upon set of competencies is defined, a valuable next task will be development of a model curriculum to teach team skills to students in global health. The preliminary competencies offered in this paper represent a good first step toward ensuring that global health professionals are able to collaborate effectively to make the field as cohesive and collaborative as the mighty task of global health demands.
从定义和必要性来讲，全球健康是一个合作性领域；它需要不同专业的人员来应对影响社区、地区和国家健康的临床、生物、社会和政治因素。尽管近年来在界定全球健康领域和阐述特定学科的全球健康能力方面已经做了大量工作，但在跨专业全球健康教育领域所做的工作较少。本文记录了一次圆桌会议的结果，该会议旨在研究全球健康专业学生是否需要一个跨专业团队技能能力领域。本文基于现有学术成果和圆桌会议结果，提出了一套初步的团队能力。一旦确定了一套商定的能力，接下来一项有价值的任务将是开发一门示范课程，向全球健康专业的学生传授团队技能。本文提供的初步能力是迈向确保全球健康专业人员能够有效合作的良好第一步，以使该领域像全球健康这项艰巨任务所要求的那样具有凝聚力和协作性。
