Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculum
Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is the need of the hour for any undergraduate curriculum to build interprofessional communication skills, adapt teamwork, and role clarity of various healthcare professionals in the early stage of a learning period. The outcome will improve patient safet...
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| author | Sangeetha Kandasamy Shivkumar Gopalakrishnan Harikrishnan Elangovan Satish Kumar Rajasekaran John Humphrey Victor Gilbert |
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| description | Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is the need of the hour for any undergraduate curriculum to build interprofessional communication skills, adapt teamwork, and role clarity of various healthcare professionals in the early stage of a learning period. The outcome will improve patient safety and quality of care through a holistic approach by addressing lacunae in interprofessional collaboration. Objectives: To describe the steps to implement the IPE curriculum and evaluation of learners’ activity through an IPE portfolio. Results: Sensitization of IPE curriculum among various health professional faculties, and students. Develop core team facilitators, and construct lesson plans and assessments. The IPE portfolio will be used as a reliable and effective tool for formative assessment including authentic, real-world examples of learner’s work. Conclusion: This paper communicates undergraduates’ reflection practices in patient care stimulate critical thinking, deep and lifelong learning, and, facilitating from novice to mastery levels are achieved through integrated and aligned with IPE curriculum and portfolios-based assessment tool. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dd80310d29764f3dab8ecf893c98f5f92025-08-20T02:58:21ZengTabriz University of Medical SciencesResearch and Development in Medical Education2322-27192024-12-01131323210.34172/rdme.33262rdme-33262Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculumSangeetha Kandasamy0Shivkumar Gopalakrishnan1Harikrishnan Elangovan2Satish Kumar Rajasekaran3John Humphrey Victor Gilbert4Department of Biochemistry, Government Villupuram Medical College & Hospital,Villupuram 605602,Tamilnadu, IndiaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Government Villupuram Medical College & Hospital,Villupuram 605602,Tamilnadu, IndiaDepartment of Peadiatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Kathirkamam, Puducherry, 605 009, IndiaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Government Villupuram Medical College & Hospital,Villupuram 605602,Tamilnadu, IndiaDepartment of Speech Sciences, UBC Emeritus College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, CanadaBackground: Interprofessional education (IPE) is the need of the hour for any undergraduate curriculum to build interprofessional communication skills, adapt teamwork, and role clarity of various healthcare professionals in the early stage of a learning period. The outcome will improve patient safety and quality of care through a holistic approach by addressing lacunae in interprofessional collaboration. Objectives: To describe the steps to implement the IPE curriculum and evaluation of learners’ activity through an IPE portfolio. Results: Sensitization of IPE curriculum among various health professional faculties, and students. Develop core team facilitators, and construct lesson plans and assessments. The IPE portfolio will be used as a reliable and effective tool for formative assessment including authentic, real-world examples of learner’s work. Conclusion: This paper communicates undergraduates’ reflection practices in patient care stimulate critical thinking, deep and lifelong learning, and, facilitating from novice to mastery levels are achieved through integrated and aligned with IPE curriculum and portfolios-based assessment tool.https://rdme.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/rdme-13-32.pdfinterprofessional educationcurriculumportfolio-based assessmentreflective process |
| spellingShingle | Sangeetha Kandasamy Shivkumar Gopalakrishnan Harikrishnan Elangovan Satish Kumar Rajasekaran John Humphrey Victor Gilbert Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculum Research and Development in Medical Education interprofessional education curriculum portfolio-based assessment reflective process |
| title | Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculum |
| title_full | Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculum |
| title_fullStr | Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculum |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculum |
| title_short | Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculum |
| title_sort | optimizing interprofessional education integrating a portfolio based approach in undergraduate curriculum |
| topic | interprofessional education curriculum portfolio-based assessment reflective process |
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