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Building Collaboration And Competence: Peer Assisted Learning And The Interprofessional Education Of Allied Health Students, Maria Tice
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Clinical education of allied health students has changed dramatically, but has not kept pace with changes in health care practice and the needs of health care consumers in the United States (IOM, 2003). A summit report, “Health Professions Education: Bridging the Quality Chasm” (IOM, 2003) says education for health professions is in need of a major overhaul. A key concept developed during the summit and offered as an overarching vision for all programs and institutions engaged in the clinical education of health professionals is the following:
“All health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members …