Interdisciplinary Education for Research and Everyday Clinical Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 78-110
Author(s):  
Tomasz Komendziński ◽  
Joanna Dreszer-Drogorób ◽  
Emilia Mikołajewska ◽  
Dariusz Mikołajewski ◽  
Bibianna Bałaj
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Interdisciplinary Education ◽  
Neurological Deficits ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Interprofessional Practice ◽  
Professional Resources ◽  
Modern Technologies

Teamwork, interprofessional practice and learning are integral to current interdisciplinary research and health care – such approach can maximize professional resources and optimize outcomes. The development of modern technologies associated with medical sciences, and the variability of possible neurological deficits, interventions, and even scales makes this task very difficult. The key problem is regarded successful transition of students to competent work-ready professionals. Current models of education and cooperation within interdisciplinary teams may be not enough flexible. This chapter, based on own experiences from InteRDoCTor project, tries to answer the question: how shape interdisciplinary education and how their results may be wider incorporated into research and clinical practice?

Interdisciplinary Education for Research and Everyday Clinical Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 203-235
Author(s):  
Tomasz Komendziński ◽  
Joanna Dreszer-Drogorób ◽  
Emilia Mikołajewska ◽  
Dariusz Mikołajewski ◽  
Bibianna Bałaj
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Interdisciplinary Education ◽  
Neurological Deficits ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Interprofessional Practice ◽  
Professional Resources ◽  
Modern Technologies

Teamwork, interprofessional practice and learning are integral to current interdisciplinary research and health care – such approach can maximize professional resources and optimize outcomes. The development of modern technologies associated with medical sciences, and the variability of possible neurological deficits, interventions, and even scales makes this task very difficult. The key problem is regarded successful transition of students to competent work-ready professionals. Current models of education and cooperation within interdisciplinary teams may be not enough flexible. This chapter, based on own experiences from InteRDoCTor project, tries to answer the question: how shape interdisciplinary education and how their results may be wider incorporated into research and clinical practice?

View From the Penthouse: Epistemological Bumps and Emergent Metaphors as Method for Team Reflexivity

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Park ◽  
Hiba Zafran
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Reflexive Attention ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Collaborative Analysis

Research in health care occurs within interdisciplinary teams that include clinician–researchers who have multiple epistemological orientations. Rigor in collaborative projects requires reflexive attention to how the paradigmatic questions raised by diverse epistemological orientations, and the ethical stances of each researcher, shape findings. This methodological article draws on three events during an ethnography of stigma in psychiatry to define and illustrate how we used double hermeneutics in data analysis. This allowed us to examine the metaphors that emerged from what we are conceptualizing as “epistemological bumps.” This heightened the team’s awareness of the epistemological horizons and mixing that occurred, as well as revealing what mattered to each researcher, during the crafting of our research decisions and findings. We argue that interdisciplinary research on complex processes in health care requires this close examination of team experiences and moral stakes during collaborative analysis, and offer conceptual suggestions for reflexivity and rigor.

Overview of Current Approaches to Aural Rehabilitation for Adults With Cochlear Implants

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1175-1187
Author(s):  
Rachel Glade ◽  
Erin Taylor ◽  
Deborah S. Culbertson ◽  
Christin Ray
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Practice Patterns ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Aural Rehabilitation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Clinical Models ◽  
Hearing Health

Purpose This clinical focus article provides an overview of clinical models currently being used for the provision of comprehensive aural rehabilitation (AR) for adults with cochlear implants (CIs) in the Unites States. Method Clinical AR models utilized by hearing health care providers from nine clinics across the United States were discussed with regard to interprofessional AR practice patterns in the adult CI population. The clinical models were presented in the context of existing knowledge and gaps in the literature. Future directions were proposed for optimizing the provision of AR for the adult CI patient population. Findings/Conclusions There is a general agreement that AR is an integral part of hearing health care for adults with CIs. While the provision of AR is feasible in different clinical practice settings, service delivery models are variable across hearing health care professionals and settings. AR may include interprofessional collaboration among surgeons, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists with varying roles based on the characteristics of a particular setting. Despite various existing barriers, the clinical practice patterns identified here provide a starting point toward a more standard approach to comprehensive AR for adults with CIs.

Building a Vision of Dietitian Services In Primary Health Care

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (S1) ◽  
pp. S54-S57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Cantwell ◽  
Carol Clarke ◽  
Jane Bellman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Registered Dietitians ◽  
National Review ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Clear Vision

Purpose: Primary health care (PHC) reform, especially efforts to implement interdisciplinary teams, has implications for dietetic practice. A consistent, clear vision of the registered dietitian’s (RD’s) role in PHC is needed to develop a successful advocacy agenda. Methods: The Dietitians of Canada (DC) Central and Southern Ontario Primary Health Care Action Group organized a four-step process to engage dietitians in developing an advocacy agenda for RD PHC services in Ontario. Two facilitated workshops brought together dietitian opinion leaders to enhance the understanding of current roles, find common ground, and develop a shared vision. All DC members were invited to review the draft vision, and feedback was integrated into a revised vision. Results: Registered dietitians saw PHC reform through many lenses, and were uncertain about how reforms would affect their practices. In a national review, the majority of reviewers (approximately 85% of 270) supported the draft vision; additional clarity was needed on resources and the breadth of services that RDs would provide. Conclusion: Development of a PHC vision for RDs should be helpful in advocating for dietitian services in PHC.

scholarly journals Implementing Personalized Medicine in COVID-19 in Andalusia: An Opportunity to Transform the Healthcare System

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Joaquín Dopazo ◽  
Douglas Maya-Miles ◽  
Federico García ◽  
Nicola Lorusso ◽  
Miguel Ángel Calleja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Personalized Medicine ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Response To Therapy ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
Specific Patient

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented opportunity to exploit the advantages of personalized medicine for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, surveillance and management of a new challenge in public health. COVID-19 infection is highly variable, ranging from asymptomatic infections to severe, life-threatening manifestations. Personalized medicine can play a key role in elucidating individual susceptibility to the infection as well as inter-individual variability in clinical course, prognosis and response to treatment. Integrating personalized medicine into clinical practice can also transform health care by enabling the design of preventive and therapeutic strategies tailored to individual profiles, improving the detection of outbreaks or defining transmission patterns at an increasingly local level. SARS-CoV2 genome sequencing, together with the assessment of specific patient genetic variants, will support clinical decision-makers and ultimately better ways to fight this disease. Additionally, it would facilitate a better stratification and selection of patients for clinical trials, thus increasing the likelihood of obtaining positive results. Lastly, defining a national strategy to implement in clinical practice all available tools of personalized medicine in COVID-19 could be challenging but linked to a positive transformation of the health care system. In this review, we provide an update of the achievements, promises, and challenges of personalized medicine in the fight against COVID-19 from susceptibility to natural history and response to therapy, as well as from surveillance to control measures and vaccination. We also discuss strategies to facilitate the adoption of this new paradigm for medical and public health measures during and after the pandemic in health care systems.

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