Confident, Credible but Lonely – Outcomes Following Postgraduate Interprofessional Education in Rehabilitation

Lonely but diverse

NEWS NEWS What do cerebellar Purkinje cells, working myocardium, skeletal muscle myocytes and cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) have in com-mon? Their high-voltage activated (HVA) Ca 2+ currents are mediated almost exclusively by a single calcium channel type: Cav2.1 (P-type) in Purkinje cells, Cav1.2 L-type in the heart, Cav1.1 in skeletal muscle and Cav1.3 in IHCs. In most other electrically e...

The Readiness of Postgraduate Health Sciences Students for Interprofessional Education in Iran

AIM Interprofessional education has been recognized as an effective educational approach towards enabling students to provide comprehensive and safe team care for promotion of health outcomes of patients. This study was conducted in order to assess the readiness of postgraduate health science students for interprofessional education/learning, as well as identify barriers to the implementation o...

Interprofessional education.

• What is interprofessional education? The most widely accepted defi nition is ‘when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care’. 1 This may include ‘all such learning in academic and work based settings before and after qualifi cation, adopting an inclusive view of “professional”’. 1 Such a broad defi nition leads to many dif...

Postgraduate education in rheumatology.

Interprofessional education in practice.

BACKGROUND Undergraduate interprofessional education (IPE) is perceived by many in health and social care education to reduce barriers between the professions. In Aberdeen there has been an IPE programme with Robert Gordon University and University of Aberdeen, and 10 health and social care courses since 2003. The steering groups reported to the Scottish Government in 2008. It was recommended t...