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  • Health Professions Education
  • Interprofessional Collaboration
  • Healthcare Policy

Background:

  • The proliferation of health care professions with overlapping scopes of practice creates challenges for students, patients, and policymakers.
  • Existing frameworks lack a methodical approach for comparing the diverse landscape of health care professions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel method for comparing health care professions.
  • To introduce a bidirectional health professions continuum for enhanced understanding and comparison.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental courses were developed and delivered at two community colleges between 2009 and 2012.
  • The courses focused on creating and validating a new comparative framework for health care professions.

Main Results:

  • A novel bidirectional health professions continuum was successfully developed and validated.
  • The continuum provides a methodical basis for comparing diverse health care professions.

Conclusions:

  • The bidirectional health professions continuum offers significant value for career selection by students.
  • It can motivate interprofessional collaboration among providers and assist patients in selecting healthcare providers.
  • The continuum aids policymakers in understanding and regulating the complex field of health care professions.