ABSTRACT
Social work has moved firmly into a need for partnership training models, as our newest Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards explicitly call for interprofessional education (IPE). Although IPE is not a new model, we have not been consistently involved in training partnerships. Three professional schools formed partnerships to provide IPE events for social work (n = 42), medicine (n = 108), and pharmacy (n = 49) students. Social work students showed positive change on a validated measure of attitudes and beliefs regarding interprofessional practice, and debriefing included rich discussions about challenges of communication and boundaries and perceptions of hierarchy and skills of other teammates in the context of case-based learning, guided by faculty from all three professions.
Funding
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (L30 AG047993-01 to T.W.).
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Notes on contributors
Tracy Wharton
Tracy Wharton is an Assistant Professor and Mary Ann Burg is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Central Florida.
Mary Ann Burg
Tracy Wharton is an Assistant Professor and Mary Ann Burg is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Central Florida.