Lash David Benjamin, Barnett Mitchell J, Parekh Nirali, Shieh Anita, Louie Maggie C, Tang Terrill T-L
Touro University California College of Pharmacy, Vallejo, CA ; Co-primary author.
Touro University California College of Pharmacy, Vallejo, CA ; Co-primary author ; Touro University California College of Pharmacy, Vallejo, CA.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2014 Dec 15;78(10):180. doi: 10.5688/ajpe7810180.
To identify differences among faculty members in various health professional training programs in perceived benefits and challenges of implementing interprofessional education (IPE).
A 19-item survey using a 5-point Likert scale was administered to faculty members across different health disciplines at a west coast, multicollege university with osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, and physician assistant programs.
Sixty-two of 103 surveys (60.2%) were included in the study. Faculty members generally agreed that there were benefits of IPE on patient outcomes and that implementing IPE was feasible. However, group differences existed in belief that IPE improves care efficiency (p=0.001) and promotes team-based learning (p=0.001). Program divergence was also seen in frequency of stressing importance of IPE (p=0.009), preference for more IPE opportunities (p=0.041), and support (p=0.002) within respective college for IPE.
Despite consensus among faculty members from 3 disciplines that IPE is invaluable to their curricula and training of health care students, important program level differences existed that would likely need to be addressed in advance IPE initiatives.
确定不同卫生专业培训项目的教员在实施跨专业教育（IPE）的感知益处和挑战方面的差异。
对西海岸一所拥有整骨医学、药学和医师助理项目的多学院大学中不同卫生学科的教员进行了一项采用5点李克特量表的包含19个条目的调查。
103份调查问卷中的62份（60.2%）被纳入研究。教员们普遍认为IPE对患者预后有益，且实施IPE是可行的。然而，在IPE能提高护理效率（p=0.001）和促进基于团队的学习（p=0.001）这一信念上存在群体差异。在强调IPE重要性的频率（p=0.009）、对更多IPE机会的偏好（p=0.041）以及各自学院内对IPE的支持（p=0.002）方面也存在项目差异。
尽管来自3个学科的教员一致认为IPE对他们的课程以及卫生保健学生的培训非常重要，但存在重要的项目层面差异，这些差异可能需要在IPE倡议中提前加以解决。
