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The Patient Centered Medical Home: Federal, State And Local Initiatives To Transform Primary Care. The First Of An Occasional Series In Interprofessional Education And Care In The Patient-Centered Medical Home, Brooke Salzman

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The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is rapidly emerging as one prototype for redesigning health care delivery, restructuring reimbursement, and reestablishing the critical value of primary care. The actual term “medical home” was introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics, (AAP) in 1967, initially referring to a central location for archiving a child’s medical record. In 2002, the AAP expanded the medical home concept to include care characterized as accessible, continuous, comprehensive, patient-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. In 2004, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) embraced the model in its Future of Family Medicine project report, and in …

Jefferson Award For Excellence In Interprofessional Education

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

In recognition for outstanding contributions to interprofessional education two faculty awards were given by JCIPE to Christine Jerpbak, MD, Department of Family and Community Medicine on May 23, 2010 and E. Adel Herge, OTD, OTR/L , Department of Occupational Therapy on June 1, 2010.

Clinical Care Plan, Interprofessional Course, Marcia Levinson, Kathryn Shaffer, Amy Egras

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Evidence suggests interprofessional collaborative practice significantly improves patient outcomes, reduces mortality and enhances quality-of-life.1 Person-focused care demands collaboration among professions in a team approach to address multiple issues including illness, prevention, and health promotion activities. Key elements of successful implementation of interprofessional education are supported in Thomas Jefferson University’s Clinical Care Plan, Interprofessional Course (CCPIC) that includes increasing knowledge of the roles, responsibilities, and competencies of other health professions, collaborating in teams, recognizing the patient as the expert, and communicating effectively.

Developing Interprofessional Teams Using High Fidelity Resuscitation, Ksenia Zukowsky, Kevin Dysart, Brian Glynn, Tara Berman, Judi Ondik, Patricia Constanty, Debbie Cruz

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Interprofessional simulations using scenarios, megacodes, algorithms, and high fidelity equipment provide a closer approximation to what clinicians are likely to face as a team in the actual resuscitation of a newborn infant.

From The Editors, Christine Arenson, Md, Molly Rose, Rn, Phd

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter. In this issue, Dr. Zukowsky and colleagues describe the value of high-fidelity simulation to train interprofessional teams in high-risk high-stakes care. Their successful model has important implications for preparing teams to perform optimally during critical, and often stressful, clinical situations where expertise in both technical and team skills is imperative for best patient outcomes. Dr. Levinson and colleagues describe an exciting interprofessional care planning course which, for the first time at Jefferson, has brought senior Occupational Therapy (OT), Physical Therapy (PT), Nursing, Pharmacy and Medical students together …

Download Entire Pdf Interprofessional Education And Care Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 2010

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

This issue includes articles on:

Developing Interprofessional Teams using High Fidelity Resuscitation

Clinical Care Plan, Interprofessional Course

The Patient Centered Medical Home: Federal, State and Local Initiatives to Transform Primary Care The First of an Occasional Series in Interprofessional Education and Care in the Patient-Centered Medical Home

JCIPE hosted its First International Interprofessional Education and Care Conference