"The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is one of six medical schools in North America under the microscope as part of a U.S.-based study examining new models of medical education for the 21st century."
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Northern Ontario Medical Journal
October 2012
Academic Medicine
March 2012
"Everyone agrees that better teamwork leads to better patient care. But those who work every day at academic health centers recognize that there are very significant challenges to building interprofessional* teams and to educating learners to function effectively in such teams."
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
January 31, 2012
'"Collaborating Across Borders,' an international conference on interprofessional education (IPE) held in Tucson, Arizona from November 19-21, drew more than 750 attendees, including health care professionals, educators, policymakers and leaders in the field— the largest-ever gathering of experts on this topic."
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
June 2011
"The nation faces a substantial shortfall in its combined supply of physicians, APNs, and PAs, even under aggressive training scenarios, and deeper shortages if these scenarios are not achieved. Efforts must be made to expand the output of clinicians in all 3 disciplines, while also strengthening the infrastructure of clinical practice and facilitating the delegation of tasks to a broadened spectrum of caregivers in new models of care."
Association of American Medical Colleges
May 16, 2011
"Two new reports released today by six national health professions associations and three private foundations recommend new competencies for interprofessional education in the health professions, and action strategies to implement them in institutions across the country. By establishing these competencies, the proponents believe our nation’s health care system can be transformed to provide collaborative, high-quality, and cost-effective care to better serve every patient."
Interprofessional Education Collaborative
May 2011
"This report is inspired by a vision of interprofessional collaborative practice as key to the safe, high quality, accessible, patient-centered care desired by all. Achieving that vision for the future requires the continuous development of interprofessional competencies by health professions students as part of the learning
process, so that they enter the workforce ready to practice effective teamwork and team-based care."
Medical Education Online
April 2011
"In this paper, three universities, the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, the University of Florida and the University of Washington describe their training curricula models of collaborative and interprofessional education."
