Name
Interprofessional Education in Medical Education to Improve Healthcare Outcomes
Date & Time
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Ashley Gerhardson
Description

Interprofessional collaboration has the potential to address the quality of health care as well as improve outcomes. National healthcare reform is vital to the future of our country. Gaps and inequities in health persist within and between countries. 1 The 2019 Scorecard on State Health System Performance reports: Rise in deaths from suicide, alcohol and drug overdose; uninsured rates are down following coverage expansions, but gains have stalled, and in some states have begun to erode; per capita spending growth in employer plans is outpacing that in Medicare. 2 Professional education struggles to keep pace with healthcare challenges. A mismatch of competencies to patient and population needs; poor teamwork; persistent gender stratification of professional status; narrow technical focus; episodic encounters rather than continues care; and weak leadership to improve health-system performance are among a few of the challenges that are on the horizon.1 Professional health education is at a crossroad of opportunity for the benefits offered by interprofessional education. Interprofessional education (IPE) prepares students to work as a team with other medical professionals and highlights the team-based methodology of practice.  As interprofessional practice develops, medical education professionals, future medical leaders, and current medical leaders move their views from a disease-based perspective of medicine to a patient-centered perspective.