Background and Foreground: Connections and Distinctions When Health Professions Faculty Teach Both Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and Quality Improvement-A Case Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite decades of effort, programs continue to struggle to integrate competencies related quality improvement (QI) and interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) into health professions education. Additionally, while QI and ICP may seem intuitively linked and there exists some examples of a coordinated approach, the literature regarding competencies, including knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs), is still largely focused on QI and ICP as separate fields of knowledge and practice. This study explored distinctions and connections between quality improvement (QI) and interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) competency domains in health professions education.

Methods

The authors used a qualitative case study approach with an instrumental case, that is,

SUBMITTER: Stevenson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11811988 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature