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Promoting interdisciplinary collaboration: trainees addressing siloed medical education.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  22007090     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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OBJECTIVE: Professional siloing within medical institutions has been identified as a problem in medical education, including resident training. The authors discuss how trainees from different disciplines can collaborate to address this problem.
METHOD: A group of trainees from psychiatry, developmental medicine, neurology, and education came together to develop a community of practice (CoP) to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
RESULTS: A key outcome was the development of a seminar including speakers and attendees (N=20 to 35) from psychiatry, developmental medicine, neurology, and education. The CoP, developed in 2008, continues to grow and develop through their seminar, which fosters institution-wide interdisciplinary collaboration.
CONCLUSION: In an attempt to break down interdisciplinary silos, a CoP and interdisciplinary seminar were created. Trainee organizers benefited from an educational context that embodied adult-learning theory and promoted lifelong learning. The unique seminar that was created continues to promote a community sense of learning and practice. Outcome measures are currently being used to objectively measure these efforts.
Authors:
Robert Li Kitts; Joanna Christodoulou; Stuart Goldman
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry     Volume:  35     ISSN:  1545-7230     ISO Abbreviation:  Acad Psychiatry     Publication Date:  2011  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-10-18     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8917200     Medline TA:  Acad Psychiatry     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  317-21     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
From the Dept. of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; and the Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
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