Category: Healthcare Education
Counselors Lend Hope to Disaster Survivors
Gale-force winds, torrential rain, and a monster tidal surge: ingredients for catastrophe in even sparsely-populated areas. But what happens when a storm of this severity hits an urban environment like Houston, TX? Stressful doesn’t even begin to describe such an ...
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Continuing Professional Development in Academic Medical Centers
Continuing Professional Development for Faculty: An Elephant in the House of Academic Medicine or the Key to Future Success? Excerpted from the abstract: “The scope of change required by academic medical centers (AMCs) to maintain their viability and achieve their ...
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Five Ways Collaborative Healthcare Education Boosts Patient-Centered Care
Patient-centered care has transformed the landscape of healthcare delivery. Hospitals and health centers are shifting away from the traditional care delivery model in which clinicians prescribe the same treatment for patients with similar conditions or diagnoses. The new patient-centered model ...
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Who Pays for Interprofessional Education? Get Started with These Five Grant Writing Tips
The World Health Organization has issued an important call to policy-makers, decision-makers, educators, health workers, community leaders, and global health advocates to take action and move towards embedding interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice in all of the services they ...
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3 Keys to Successful IPE Implementation
If you’re thinking about establishing a new interprofessional education (IPE) program at your institution – or expanding an existing one – you probably already understand some of the benefits of IPE. At its core, IPE encourages collaboration among healthcare learners ...
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Top 5 Reasons to Use AV Tech for Debriefing
Debriefing plays an important role in healthcare education, providing a structured platform for learners to reflect, learn, and improve their skills. These sessions are not just about reviewing what went right or wrong; they are essential for deepening understanding, fostering ...
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Commemorating PTSD Awareness Month
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition brought on by a stressful or distressing event that affects as many as 7.7 million Americans aged 18 and over (source: The National Institute of Mental Health). Common symptoms may include ...
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Integrating Interprofessional Education in Today’s Medical Schools
In today’s healthcare workplaces, interprofessional patient care isn’t the exception – it’s the new norm. Whether practicing in a hospital, clinic, or primary care office, medical professionals work side-by-side with a multitude of other healthcare disciplines, including nurses, physician’s assistants, ...
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What Is Interprofessional Education?
Interprofessional education (IPE) is gaining traction in medical and healthcare institutions, reflecting advancements in training technology and a new emphasis on collaboration. Interprofessional education encourages collaboration among medical and healthcare learners – medical, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, social work and ...
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Think You Know Debriefing? Tips and Tricks
How effective are your simulation debriefing skills? What challenges do you face? Are you meeting your training goals? What can AV do to enhance your debriefing process? In our four-part blog series on debriefing, we’ll help you get the most ...
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