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FINCA – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care
The health care system in Germany and in many other countries is facing fundamental challenges due to demographic change, which require new integrated care concepts and a revision of the collaboration between health care professions in everyday clinical practice. Internationally, several competency...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10577300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37849484 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1213300 |
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author | Witti, Matthias J. Zottmann, Jan M. Wershofen, Birgit Thistlethwaite, Jill E. Fischer, Frank Fischer, Martin R. |
author_facet | Witti, Matthias J. Zottmann, Jan M. Wershofen, Birgit Thistlethwaite, Jill E. Fischer, Frank Fischer, Martin R. |
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description | The health care system in Germany and in many other countries is facing fundamental challenges due to demographic change, which require new integrated care concepts and a revision of the collaboration between health care professions in everyday clinical practice. Internationally, several competency framework models have been proposed, but a framework that explicitly conceptualizes collaborative activities to improve interprofessional problem-solving competency in health care is still missing. Such a framework should define contextual, person-related, process-related, and outcome-related variables relevant to interprofessional problem solving in health care. Against this background, we present a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care (FINCA) developed with scientific consideration of empirical data and various theoretical references. FINCA reflects an interprofessional learning and interaction process involving two persons from different health care professions and with different individual learning prerequisites. These two initially identify a problem that is likely to require interprofessional collaboration at some point. FINCA acknowledges the context of interprofessional learning, teaching, and working as well as its action-modifying context factors. We follow the reasoning that individual learning prerequisites interact with the teaching context during learning activities. At the heart of FINCA are observable collaborative activities (information sharing and grounding; negotiating; regulating; executing interprofessional activities; maintaining communication) that can be used to assess individuals’ cognitive and social skills. Eventually, the framework envisages an assessment of the outcomes of interprofessional education and collaboration. The proposed conceptual framework provides the basis for analysis and empirical testing of the components and variables it describes and their interactions across studies, educational interventions, and action-modifying contexts. FINCA further provides the basis for fostering the teaching and learning of interprofessional problem-solving skills in various health care settings. It can support faculty and curriculum developers to systematize the implementation and improvement of interprofessional teaching and learning opportunities. From a practical perspective, FINCA can help to better align curricula for different health professions in the future. In principle, we also see potential for transferability of the framework to other areas where different professions collaborate. |
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spelling | pubmed-105773002023-10-17 FINCA – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care Witti, Matthias J. Zottmann, Jan M. Wershofen, Birgit Thistlethwaite, Jill E. Fischer, Frank Fischer, Martin R. Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine The health care system in Germany and in many other countries is facing fundamental challenges due to demographic change, which require new integrated care concepts and a revision of the collaboration between health care professions in everyday clinical practice. Internationally, several competency framework models have been proposed, but a framework that explicitly conceptualizes collaborative activities to improve interprofessional problem-solving competency in health care is still missing. Such a framework should define contextual, person-related, process-related, and outcome-related variables relevant to interprofessional problem solving in health care. Against this background, we present a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care (FINCA) developed with scientific consideration of empirical data and various theoretical references. FINCA reflects an interprofessional learning and interaction process involving two persons from different health care professions and with different individual learning prerequisites. These two initially identify a problem that is likely to require interprofessional collaboration at some point. FINCA acknowledges the context of interprofessional learning, teaching, and working as well as its action-modifying context factors. We follow the reasoning that individual learning prerequisites interact with the teaching context during learning activities. At the heart of FINCA are observable collaborative activities (information sharing and grounding; negotiating; regulating; executing interprofessional activities; maintaining communication) that can be used to assess individuals’ cognitive and social skills. Eventually, the framework envisages an assessment of the outcomes of interprofessional education and collaboration. The proposed conceptual framework provides the basis for analysis and empirical testing of the components and variables it describes and their interactions across studies, educational interventions, and action-modifying contexts. FINCA further provides the basis for fostering the teaching and learning of interprofessional problem-solving skills in various health care settings. It can support faculty and curriculum developers to systematize the implementation and improvement of interprofessional teaching and learning opportunities. From a practical perspective, FINCA can help to better align curricula for different health professions in the future. In principle, we also see potential for transferability of the framework to other areas where different professions collaborate. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10577300/ /pubmed/37849484 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1213300 Text en Copyright © 2023 Witti, Zottmann, Wershofen, Thistlethwaite, Fischer and Fischer. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Medicine Witti, Matthias J. Zottmann, Jan M. Wershofen, Birgit Thistlethwaite, Jill E. Fischer, Frank Fischer, Martin R. FINCA – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care |
title | FINCA – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care |
title_full | FINCA – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care |
title_fullStr | FINCA – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care |
title_full_unstemmed | FINCA – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care |
title_short | FINCA – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care |
title_sort | finca – a conceptual framework to improve interprofessional collaboration in health education and care |
topic | Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10577300/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37849484 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1213300 |
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