Since Ernest Boyer's landmark 1990 report, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, leaders in higher education, including academic medicine, have advocated that faculty members apply their expertise in new and creative ways in partnership with communities. Such community engagement can take many forms, including community-based teaching, research, clinical care, and service. ...

Understanding and applying nutrition knowledge and skills to all aspects of health care are extremely important, and all health care professions need basic training to effectively assess dietary intake and provide appropriate guidance, counseling, and treatment to their patients. With obesity rates at an all-time high and the increasing prevalence of diabetes projected to cost the Federal gover...

The recent increased threat of terrorism, coupled with the ever-present dangers posed by natural disasters and public health emergencies, clearly support the need to incorporate bioterrorism preparedness and emergency response material into the curricula of every health professions school in the nation. A main barrier to health care preparedness in this country is a lack of coordination across ...

This cross-national comparison study of four health professions is based on review and analysis of professional policy documents and explores the way these selected professions integrate and structure patient education as a professional function. Factors that are internal and external to each of these professions are discussed and compared between the two countries. Professional policy document...

Laboratory for Advanced Rehabilitation Research in Simulation, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, School of Health Professions, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States, Office of the Dean, School of Health Professions, University o...

www.thelancet.com Vol 370 September 29, 2007 1113 Institute, and the Royal Institute of British Architects are promoting greater understanding of health eff ects among the built-environment professions. We now need a paradigm shift in the way professions work together to translate our growing understanding of the link between the built environment and health and wellbeing into real and eff ecti...

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PURPOSE To make a preliminary assessment of the perceptions of health professions students about interprofessional cooperation. METHOD Health professions students (588 students from eight professions) at the Iowa Geriatric Education Center's partner institutions received a questionnaire of demographics questions and the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS). The IEPS is an 18-it...

• On the basis of the belief that empathy-measuring instruments which were developed for the general population did not embrace the essence of empathy in the context of health professions education and patient care, we developed a new instrument to specifi cally measure empathy in that context. • This chapter describes the steps taken in the development and psychometric analyses of the Jefferso...