Jensen Clyde B
Senior executive at the Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and he is vice president for university relations and professor of pharmacology at the University of Western States in Portland.
Integr Med (Encinitas). 2015 Jun;14(3):48-53.
The large number of health care professions with overlapping scopes of practice is intimidating to students, confusing to patients, and frustrating to policymakers. As abundant and diverse as the hundreds of health care professions are, they possess sufficient numbers of common characteristics to warrant their placement on a common continuum of health professions that permits methodical comparisons. From 2009-2012, the author developed and delivered experimental courses at 2 community colleges for the purposes of creating and validating a novel method for comparing health care professions. This paper describes the bidirectional health professions continuum that emerged from these courses and its potential value in helping students select a health care career, motivating health care providers to seek interprofessional collaboration, assisting patients with the selection of health care providers, and helping policymakers to better understand the health care professions they regulate.
大量业务范围重叠的医疗保健专业让学生望而却步,让患者感到困惑,也让政策制定者感到沮丧。尽管数百种医疗保健专业丰富多样,但它们具有足够多的共同特征,足以使其被置于一个共同的健康专业连续统一体中,以便进行系统比较。2009年至2012年期间,作者在两所社区学院开发并开设了实验课程,目的是创建和验证一种比较医疗保健专业的新方法。本文描述了从这些课程中产生的双向健康专业连续统一体及其在帮助学生选择医疗保健职业、激励医疗保健提供者寻求跨专业合作、协助患者选择医疗保健提供者以及帮助政策制定者更好地理解他们所监管的医疗保健专业方面的潜在价值。