Interprofessional Education

Interprofessional Education
Monday February 8th 2016
Interprofessional Education (IPE) is an important concept that reinforces patient care

satisfaction in the organization of health care. Not only is it important for a health professional to
be an expert in their field of practice, but it also comes as benefit for a profession to learn about
additional health care resources. Many medical schools have adopted the educational purpose of
teaching their students about IPE in order to address improving the health care system. Although
many Chiropractic schools in North America seem to be isolated in their education. With
demands in health care increasing, and chronic conditions adapting more numerously, patients
will be requiring different and even conjoined solutions to treat their conditions. As a healthcare
provider, your field of expertise will not always hold the answer to bettering the patient. Quite
often, referrals will need to be made as many symptoms will not be within your qualified field or
be outside your treatment familiarity. Being comprehensive to who a patient should see or what
additional/alternative form of treatment they require is completely within your responsibility
being a health care provider. Otherwise, you can be doing an injustice onto patients who come in
to seek your assistance and/or guidance. An educational environment that incorporates IPE can
certainly offer benefits of improved outcomes for chronic condition patients, create RAPOR and
remove barriers between health care providers and even reduce staff turnover rates.1
These providers are labelled as dysfunctional physicians who execute a lack of coherence
towards interacting with alternative forms of treatment, among other things.2 This ties into
collaboration and collaborative Patient-Centered Practice. These collaborative aspects involve
an Interprofessional processes of communication and teamwork amongst health care
professionals to enhance the patients care and optimize communication between clinical care
givers. Studies have examined the effectiveness of Chiropractic collaboration with Health Teams,
Physicians and Surgeons. A Chiropractors added role in a health care setting showed to decrease
the administration of drugs and narcotics to patients with acute and chronic low back pain3.
There are also findings of improved understanding of the importance of exercise as treatment
when physicians work with Chiropractors, and pharmacists becoming more aware of the drugfree approaches to pain management4. Surgeons in Ontario have reported that they would prefer
their patients be screened by a chiropractor first before receiving surgical treatment for their
conditions5.
The application for Chiropractors in public health has evidently been accomplished over
the decades and is increasingly emphasising its importance in the arena of public health. Its
original fundamental principles focusing on innate ease and it being an alternative form of
healing that did not use drugs left the profession at a cross road between alternative medicine and
mainstream health care. Over the years, chiropractors have aligned themselves to be more
collective with other healing practices and health care providers. Working to provide assistance
in not only treating muscle-skeletal problems but also common health cases M.Ds and other
physicians would normally encounter. These include Colic, Asthma, Hypertension and gastric
disorders to name a few. Although the evidence for Chiropractics impact on these public health
paradigms isnt distinct, theres still enough feasibility to it to continue its integration while
continuing to research these phenomenas. Not only is the integration of supportive treatment in
chiropractic advancing, but its major position chiropractic lies in public health are its focus
towards protecting, promoting and restoring health. Ideally, Chiropractors have a spot open in
health care for disease prevention and optimizing an individuals health, but also being
knowledgeable and compassionate enough to educate their patients on healthier ways of life and
helping off-set future set-backs in their health.6
References
1. Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Chiropractic. The Journal of the Canadian
Chiropractic Association. 2008;52(2):76-78.
2. Ramsay MAE. Conflict in the health care workplace. Proceedings (Baylor University
Medical Center). 2001;14(2):138-139.
3. Mior, S., Gamble, B., Barnsley, J., Ct, P., & Ct, E. (2013). Changes in primary care
physicians management of low back pain in a model of interprofessional collaborative
care: an uncontrolled before-after study. Chiropractic and Manual Therapies, 21(6)
4. Riva, J., Krawchenko, I., Lam, J., O'Sullivan, F., & Stanford, E. (2011). Chiropractors
and pharmacists in a family health team: Unlikely allies in the collaborative management
of pregnancy-related low back pain. Canadian Pharmacists Journal,144(2), 62-65.
5. Busse, J., Riva, J., Nash, J., Hsu, S., Fisher, C., Wai, E., Brunarski, D., Drew, B., Quon J.,
Walter, S., Bishop, P., & Rampersaud, R. (2013). Surgeon attitudes toward nonphysician
screening of low back or low backrelated leg pain patients referred for surgical
assessment. Spine, 38(7), E402-E408, 2013.
6. Johnson C, Baird R, Dougherty PE, Globe G, Green BN, Haneline M, Hawk C, Injeyan
HS, Killinger L, Kopansky-Giles D, Lisi AJ, Mior SA, Smith M. Chiropractic and public
health: current state and future vision. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2008 JulAug;31(6):397-410. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2008.07.001.

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