Walking the Walk in Team-Based Education: The Crimson Care Collaborative Clinic in Family Medicine.
Effective implementation of robust team-based care in the United States requires significant training for all team members. This education is integral to creating a culture of collaboration and respect among interprofessional members of the health care team. The lack of interprofessional clinical educational experiences contributes to a "hidden curriculum" that reinforces the problematic view that medicine is at the top of a hierarchy among health professions. However, learners themselves have started resisting this view by integrating cross-disciplinary team-based training into their own education. One example of learner-based leadership in interprofessional team care is the Crimson Care Collaborative at Cambridge Health Alliance, a student-faculty collaborative family medicine clinic. This successful clinic demonstrates that high-quality interprofessional clinical education can be accomplished through partnerships between educational institutions and existing patient-centered medical homes.
Clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School in Boston and a family medicine physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is also incoming medical staff president and medical director of the Union Square site, a patient-centered medical home.
Kirsten
K
Meisinger
Family medicine resident physician at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island.
Diana
D
Wohler
D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D001900:Boston; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000379:methods; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D010348:Patient Care Team; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D013334:Students