This study contributes to a deeper understanding of using problems with wicked tendencies as vehicles for learning in higher professional education (HPE). It was guided by this question: How can the features of problems, problem-solving approaches and outcomes be aligned in HPE courses aiming to prepare students for addressing problems with wicked…

Interprofessional education (IPE) provides healthcare students with educational experiences that will prepare them for the evolving team-based approach to healthcare. With significant differences in training approaches, areas of expertise, commitment to IPE, and resources among disciplines, curricular developers must be strategic and deliberate to…

The College of Health, Psychology, and Social Care at the University of Derby has transformed its Interprofessional Education (IPE) offer from a top-down standalone event into a five-year strategy designed and delivered in genuine collaboration with students. Across the higher education sector, IPE has been a struggle, tokenistic at best, with…

This simulation study explores how the integration of interprofessional components into health care curriculum may impact professional stereotyping and collaborative behavior in care delivery teams comprised of a physician, a registered nurse, a physician's assistant, a physical therapist, and a radiation therapist. As part of the agent-based…

This article presents elements from the research journey pursued by the author in the area of interdisciplinarity in education, and more specifically in elementary education, which he has been studying for 30 years. The text begins by presenting the reasons that led to undertaking doctoral studies on this issue. It then addresses the foundations…

In responding to Upton's discourse arguing for reform of undergraduate health profession curricula to maximise the inclusion of health psychology, it is first important to concede the enormity of the task. After all, psychologists are inherently biased towards their subject, quite simply due to their immersion within it which convinces them of its…

This monograph discusses some of the reforms and changes that have taken place in professional schools. Chapter I discusses: (1) the nature and characteristics of professions; (2) the evolution of professional education; (3) the purposes of professional education and some of its persistent problems; and (4) the forces that are pushing for radical…

The educator-advocate as gerontologist must simultaneously develop a core training in aging, induce other faculty members to add gerontological content, build interdisciplinary bridges with other academic units, and influence other educational institutions. (Editor)

Although some effort has been expended toward the development of physical education as a discipline, the nature of physical education reveals that it is more a professional field. A model is described which provides a means to draw from several contributing disciplines and subdisciplines in order to improve the practice of physical education.…

To enhance interdisciplinary collaboration between medicine and nursing and to respond to societal health care needs, the educational systems that socialize young health professionals into their respective roles must be examined and health care professional education must be reformed. (Author/JOW)

The Master of Arts and Professional Studies (MAPS) program at the University of Pennsylvania combines, in an integrated and interactive full-time or part-time experience, a traditional master's degree in a humanities or social science discipline with career-oriented preprofessional training and an internship experience in business, government, or…

Five papers are presented from a 1980 conference on the role of social work in the core curriculum of University Affiliated Facilities (UAFs), centers designed to train practitioners in working with handicapped students. F. Cyphert ("Some Personal Observations") suggests approaches to the development of a core curriculum and notes the…

With new schools, expanded enrollments and changing curricula, the character of medical education is rapidly changing. (Editor/JR)