Building Interprofessional Frameworks Through Educational Reform

“Equalizing Opportunity Through Educational Finance Reform”

We analyze the reallocations of educational expenditures required to equalize opportunities, according to the theory of Roemer (1998). Using the NLSYM data set, we find that implementing an equal-opportunity policy across men of different races, by using educational finance as the instrument, and ensuring that no race received less than the average observed nationally, would require spending ni...

Building Educational Technology Partnerships Through Participatory Design

IntroductIon Educational technology provides many examples of how efficient software development and deployment is not enough. Teachers work in a complex and dynamic context in which measurable objectives and underlying values collide on a daily basis. Traditionally, teachers work in isolation from their peers; individual teachers have well-established personal practices and philosophies of edu...

Building rural health care teams through interprofessional simulation-based education

The Rural Inter-professional Program Emergency Retreat (RIPPER) uses interprofessional learning and simulation together as educational strategies to prepare final year nursing, medical and pharmacy students for effective rural health care delivery. The program provides students with the opportunity to learn and work as a team using authentic and relevant situational learning and skill building....

Interprofessional Education: A Reform Plan for Collaborative

Health‐care professionals come across several situations on a routine basis, wherein the lack of collaboration between different health professions is apparent. The focus of this paper is on revealing the effect of lack of interprofessional collaboration on the quality of patient care and safety of the patient. One example of the situation where interdisciplinary role can be beneficial is the a...

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