title: An interprofessional web-based approach to providing breast cancer education.
abstract: This paper describes the process that nursing, social work, and pharmacy faculty at a state university undertook to develop interprofessional web-based breast cancer education modules for incorporation into required curriculum. Eight web modules initially developed to educate baccalaureate nursing students on breast cancer were revised and expanded at each health professional school to include discipline-specific information pertinent to social work and pharmacy scope of practice. A specialized internet-accessible web-delivered application was constructed consisting of eight reusable learning objects, or modules, including epidemiology, risk factors and screening, diagnosis, staging and grading, treatment, survivorship, disparities, and metastatic breast cancer. These modules were organized for easy integration into existing courses and allowed for an efficient means of providing expert, evidence-based content. Innovative methods to integrate nursing, social work, and pharmacy education are needed to achieve an effective interprofessional educational approach to teaching breast cancer content.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, 20 N. Pine Street, Room S448, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA, jtrovato@rx.umaryland.edu.
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Trovato
authors.forename: Nina M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Trocky
authors.forename: Julianne S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Oktay
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McGuire
authors.forename: Kathleen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Griffith
authors.forename: Sandra W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: McLeskey
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003479:Curriculum; D019468:Disease Management; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards