Longitudinal faculty development to improve interprofessional collaboration and practice: a multisite qualitative study at five US academic health centres.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Interprofessional (IP) collaboration and effective teamwork remain variable in healthcare organisations. IP bias, assumptions and conflicts limit the capacity of healthcare teams to leverage the expertise of their members to meet growing complexities of patient needs and optimise healthcare outcomes. We aimed to understand how a longitudinal faculty development programme, designed to optimise IP learning, influenced its participants in their IP roles.

Design

In this qualitative study, using a constructivist grounded theory approach, we analysed participants' anonymous narrative responses to open-ended questions about specific knowledge, insights and skills acquired during our IP longitudinal faculty development programme and applications of this learning to teachi

SUBMITTER: Rider EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10124268 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature