Shadowing: Interprofessional Learning

Interprofessional education through shadowing experiences in multi-disciplinary clinical settings

The World Health Organization has recently added Interprofessional Education (IPE) to its global health agenda recognizing it as a necessary component of all health professionals' education. We suggest mandatory interprofessional shadowing experiences as a mechanism to be used by chiropractic institutions to address this agenda. IPE initiatives of other professions (pharmacy and medicine) are d...

Learning in interprofessional teams: AMEE

This guide is for health and social care professionals who teach or guide others’ learning before and after qualification, in formal courses or the workplace. It clarifies the understanding of interprofessional learning and explores the concept of teams and team working. Illustrated by examples from practice, the practicalities of effective interprofessional learning are described, and the unde...

Shadowing and Blocking as Learning Interference Models

The link between reward and reward-eliciting actions may be impaired by increased sensitivity to background noise during the waiting period (Shadowing) and may also be interfered simultaneous presentation of two redundant inputs. Clinical studies have shown acute Schizophrenia patients lack the ability to blocking (learning interference). The model presented in this study aims to illustrate the...

Reflections and unprompted observations by healthcare students of an interprofessional shadowing visit.

This paper reports work from a Centre for Interprofessional Practice in a higher education institution in the UK that offers four levels of interprofessional learning (IPL) to all healthcare students. The second level (IPL2) integrates professional practice into the learning process, requiring students to shadow a qualified healthcare professional (from a different profession) for half a day. S...

Professionalism (empathy, interprofessional collaboration, lifelong learning)