Medscape June 10, 2022
Creating opportunities for nursing students and medical students to collaborate during their training can be tricky. Still, research suggests doing so can yield massive payoffs for post-graduation practice: facilitating smoother transitions to interdisciplinary care, enhancing teamwork, reducing preventable errors, and improving patient safety.
These benefits are precisely what interprofessional education (IPE) aims to accomplish and why more universities and medical centers are fostering these experiences by building them into curricula and clinical rotations.
For example, this past fall, 12 third-year nursing students from New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing were paired with medical students from NYU Long Island School of Medicine in a newly launched IPE initiative. The medical students were entering year 2 of an accelerated...
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