Seniors Skyping: A Professional, Academic, and Community Collaboration

A Framework for Mobile Collaboration between Seniors and Caregivers

Collaboration between community pharmacists and family physicians: lessons learned from the Seniors Medication Assessment Research Trial.

OBJECTIVES To learn about the experiences of specially trained expanded role pharmacists (ERPs) and family physicians in a program in which they worked together to optimize drug therapy for elderly patients (aged 65 and older) and to identify shortcomings of the program, obstacles to its implementation, and strategies to overcome these obstacles. DESIGN Qualitative opinion analysis. PARTICI...

Telemedicine: academic and professional aspects.

Doctors have recently gained substantial experience of using telemedical applications for consultations, education and training, and conferences. What is still lacking is systematic evaluation of these new approaches compared with traditional procedures. Trials involving consultations for diagnostic, monitoring, and interpretative purposes should be blinded and multicentred, and should include ...

Brighter Smiles: Service learning, inter-professional collaboration and health promotion in a First Nations community.

OBJECTIVE The goal of Brighter Smiles was to improve children's dental health in a remote First Nations community in British Columbia in the context of a service-learning experience for pediatrics residents. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The provincial Ministry of Health had competitive funds available for collaborations between remote communities and medical educators. Hartley Bay (Gitga'at), a t...

The challenges of collaboration for academic and community partners in a research partnership: points to consider.

The philosophical underpinning of Community-Engaged Research (CEnR) entails a collaborative partnership between academic researchers and the community. The Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) model is the partnership model most widely discussed in the CEnR literature and is the primary model we draw upon in this discussion of the collaboration between academic researchers and the comm...