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Educating interprofessional learners for quality, safety and systems improvement.

Maryjoan D Ladden¹, Geraldine Bednash, David P Stevens

¹Department of Ambulatory Care & Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA. maryjoan_Ladden@hphc.org

Journal of Interprofessional Care

|September 27, 2006

Summary

Health professionals require better training in systems improvement and interprofessional collaboration. The Achieving Competence Today (ACT) program offers a new model for interprofessional education to enhance these essential skills for quality and safety improvement.

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Area of Science:

Healthcare Education
Quality Improvement
Patient Safety

Background:

Health professionals often lack essential skills for effective healthcare systems improvement.
Competencies in systems improvement and interprofessional collaboration are inadequately addressed in current educational curricula.
There is a critical need for improved training models to equip healthcare professionals for quality and safety initiatives.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce the Achieving Competence Today (ACT) program, a novel interprofessional education model.
To describe the ACT curriculum designed for quality, safety, and health systems improvement.
To discuss strategies for optimizing interprofessional learning within the ACT program.

Main Methods:

The ACT program utilizes a four-module, active learning course structure.
Learners from diverse disciplines collaborate on developing a Quality Improvement Project.
The project aims to address a real-world quality or safety issue within the learners' practice systems.

Main Results:

The ACT program provides a structured framework for interprofessional education in systems improvement.
Active learning and collaborative project development foster practical skill acquisition.
The model is designed to enhance interprofessional collaboration for tangible practice changes.

Conclusions:

The ACT program offers a viable model for interprofessional education in quality and safety.
Effective implementation of ACT can improve healthcare professionals' competencies in systems improvement.
Further development and dissemination of ACT are recommended for broader impact on healthcare quality.