TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Consumer Satisfaction
KW - Education, Professional/manpower/organization & administration/trends
KW - England
KW - Faculty
KW - Female
KW - Focus Groups
KW - Health Occupations/education
KW - Humans
KW - Interprofessional Relations
KW - Interviews as Topic
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Patient-Centered Care/organization & administration/trends
KW - Program Evaluation
KW - Questionnaires
KW - Social Work/education
KW - State Medicine
AU - D. Rees
AU - R. Johnson
A1 - 
AB - An interprofessional pre-qualifying curriculum for health and social care professionals was introduced at an English university in September 2000. This study explored the experiences of academic staff from a range of professional backgrounds involved in this interprofessional initiative. Data were collected via questionnaires, individual interviews and focus groups and were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Sixty-one questionnaires were returned out of a possible two hundred (response rate 30.5%); twenty-nine respondents participated in interviews and focus groups. Four main themes emerged from the data: (i) Huge: Size does matter; (ii) Isolation: Together but separate; (iii) Facilitation: Anything but easy; and (iv) Faculty: Do we walk the talk? The study found a cross-Faculty commitment to interprofessional education, but revealed considerable difficulties for those staff responsible for the management and delivery of the curriculum. The vast scale, the complex nature of interprofessional education delivery, the logistics and organizational challenges created significant difficulties for staff, who could at times feel overwhelmed and isolated. Attitudinal barriers to interprofessional education were identified, although the interprofessional curriculum had enhanced interprofessional working within the Faculty. In order to optimize the success of interprofessional education, the significant challenges that exist for academic staff must be addressed, and ownership by staff enabled.
BT - Journal of interprofessional care
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 5
CY - England
DO - 10.1080/13561820701507878
IS - 5
JF - Journal of interprofessional care
N2 - An interprofessional pre-qualifying curriculum for health and social care professionals was introduced at an English university in September 2000. This study explored the experiences of academic staff from a range of professional backgrounds involved in this interprofessional initiative. Data were collected via questionnaires, individual interviews and focus groups and were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Sixty-one questionnaires were returned out of a possible two hundred (response rate 30.5%); twenty-nine respondents participated in interviews and focus groups. Four main themes emerged from the data: (i) Huge: Size does matter; (ii) Isolation: Together but separate; (iii) Facilitation: Anything but easy; and (iv) Faculty: Do we walk the talk? The study found a cross-Faculty commitment to interprofessional education, but revealed considerable difficulties for those staff responsible for the management and delivery of the curriculum. The vast scale, the complex nature of interprofessional education delivery, the logistics and organizational challenges created significant difficulties for staff, who could at times feel overwhelmed and isolated. Attitudinal barriers to interprofessional education were identified, although the interprofessional curriculum had enhanced interprofessional working within the Faculty. In order to optimize the success of interprofessional education, the significant challenges that exist for academic staff must be addressed, and ownership by staff enabled.
PP - England
PY - 2007
SN - 1356-1820; 1356-1820
SP - 543
EP - 555
EP - 
T1 - All together now? Staff views and experiences of a pre-qualifying interprofessional curriculum
T2 - Journal of interprofessional care
TI - All together now? Staff views and experiences of a pre-qualifying interprofessional curriculum
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 17891627
U3 - 10.1080/13561820701507878
VL - 21
VO - 1356-1820; 1356-1820
Y1 - 2007
ER -