RESEARCH ARTICLES Pharmacy Student Participation in an Interdisciplinary Case Conference

Objectives. An emphasis on pharmaceutical care has made interdisciplinary teamwork increasingly important. However, required interdisciplinary education is rare in pharmacy education. The purpose of this paper is to discuss pharmacy student participation in a required interdisciplinary case conference designed and implemented for health professional students. Methods. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 439 health professional students, including 113 doctor of pharmacy students, participated in a required series of 2 simulated interdisciplinary case conferences. Evaluation focused on changes in knowledge and attitudes of both students and facilitators and included preconference and postconference surveys of students and postconference surveys of facilitators. Results. In general, students' knowledge of other health care professionals increased. With regard to pharmacy students' attitudes toward interdisciplinary care, students reported generally positive attitudes, with a greater improvement in their attitudes preconference to postconference in pharmacy students than in other students. Conclusions. Results show that interdisciplinary experiences can assist students in developing appreciation for the expertise that each health profession offers

Conscientious objection and person-centered care

From PubMed via Jisc Publications Router.Stephen Buetow - ORCID 0000-0002-9771-248X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9771-248XItem not available in this repository.Person-centered care offers a promising way to manage clinicians' conscientious objection to providing services they consider morally wrong. Health care centered on persons, rather than patients, recognizes clinicians and patients on the same stratum. The moral interests of clinicians, as persons, thus warrant as much consideration as those of other persons, including patients. Interconnected moral interests of clinicians, patients, and society construct the clinician as a socially embedded and integrated self, transcending the simplistic duality of private conscience versus public role expectations. In this milieu of blurred boundaries, person-centered care offers a constructive way to accommodate conscientious objection by clinicians. The constitutionally social nature of clinicians commits and enables them, through care mechanisms such as self-care, to optimize the quality of health care and protect the welfare of patients. To advance these conditions, it is recommended that the medical profession develop a person-centered culture of care, along with clinician virtues and skills for person-centered communication.39pubpu