This volume presents a practical guide to the development,
application and evaluation of effective interprofessional education
in health and social care. It is both a practice manual for those
in hands-on roles and a reflective guide for those indirectly
involved in professional education. The book provides clear advice
on methods of establishing training and education programmes and
evaluating their effectiveness, while simultaneously examining the
relationship between initial application, ongoing maintenance and
subsequent assessment. The authors expound multiple points of view
that will generate individual thinking and approaches to both the
practice and the estimation of interprofessional education
schemes.
The book is divided into three sections: the first introduces
the differing approaches to professional education and the
rationale behind measuring their worth; the second part focuses on
planning, development and delivery; the third part advises in a
robust and pragmatic way on modes of measuring the efficacy of
programmes. The interrelation of these topics is then examined to
provide a synthesised perspective on the development, delivery and
evaluation of interprofessional education.
Table of Content
Introduction.
Part I: Interwoven Threads.
1. The Spectrum Illuminated.
2. Effectiveness.
Part II: Developing Effective Interprofessional Education.
3. Towards Equilibrium.
4. The Groundwork.
5. The Curriculum.
6. Learning and Assessment.
7. Staff Development.
8. Testing your Development.
Part III: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interprofessional
Education.
9. Planning Sound Evaluations.
10. Developing Sound Evaluations.
11. Resources for Evaluations.
12. Conducting Evaluations.
13. Using and Sharing Learning from Evaluations.
Endnote: Drawing the Threads Together
About the author
Della Freeth, City University, London, UK
Marilyn Hammick, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Scott Reeves, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
Ivan Koppel and Hugh Barr, both University of Westminster,
School of Integrated Health, London, UK