TY - JOUR
T1 - Changing educational paradigms to prepare allied health professionals for the 21st century
AU - Stephenson, Karen S.
AU - Peloquin, Suzanne M.
AU - Richmond, Shirley A.
AU - Hinman, Martha R.
AU - Christiansen, Charles H.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Context: Inefficient and ineffective health care delivery has been of recent concern to most stakeholders in the process. Care provision systems will improve when care providers are educated to function as team members and to demonstrate competencies required for practice in diverse, demanding, and ever-changing environments. Goal: In one School of Allied Health Sciences, faculty members from nine departments united to create an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to foster the achievement of common competencies essential for success in the workplace. Approach: Members of a Curriculum-2000 Task Force collaborated to: (1) review current literature, (2) articulate a set of common competencies across several disciplines, and (3) produce a proposal for achieving and measuring competencies in an interdisciplinary manner. Conclusion: Individuals from various disciplines can come to consensus about competencies that graduates should achieve. Such consensus is the first step in the direction of implementing a curriculum based on interdisciplinary competencies.
AB - Context: Inefficient and ineffective health care delivery has been of recent concern to most stakeholders in the process. Care provision systems will improve when care providers are educated to function as team members and to demonstrate competencies required for practice in diverse, demanding, and ever-changing environments. Goal: In one School of Allied Health Sciences, faculty members from nine departments united to create an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to foster the achievement of common competencies essential for success in the workplace. Approach: Members of a Curriculum-2000 Task Force collaborated to: (1) review current literature, (2) articulate a set of common competencies across several disciplines, and (3) produce a proposal for achieving and measuring competencies in an interdisciplinary manner. Conclusion: Individuals from various disciplines can come to consensus about competencies that graduates should achieve. Such consensus is the first step in the direction of implementing a curriculum based on interdisciplinary competencies.
KW - Allied health
KW - Competency
KW - Education
KW - Interdisciplinary education
KW - Teamwork
KW - Workplace competencies
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U2 - 10.1080/13576280110109998
DO - 10.1080/13576280110109998
M3 - Article
C2 - 14741986
AN - SCOPUS:0036261022
SN - 1357-6283
VL - 15
SP - 37
EP - 49
JO - Education for Health
JF - Education for Health
IS - 1
ER -