Facilitating Interprofessional Collaboration through ePortfolio: A Pilot Study

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Each member of the healthcare team has been trained with specific knowledge and skills. Quality patient care is dependent on the collaboration of the various healthcare professionals and their ability to work as a team. In order to be effective, interprofessional collaboration should be included in the academic preparation of each of the various disciplines. If healthcare professionals are trained to perform as interprofessional teams, taking advantage of the skills and knowledge of their teammates, this change can be implemented when these students graduate and enter their chosen profession. In order to promote interprofessional collaboration, the faculty of the health sciences department of an urban university system developed an interprofessional electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) that was used by students in registered nursing, physical therapy assistant, occupational therapy assistant, food and nutrition, and human services programs to serve as an electronic medical record. The goal of this pilot was to create an ePortfolio with tabs for each of the above healthcare disciplines. A case study on a patient with a cerebrovascular accident was created and assignments were developed by the program directors of each discipline. In order for a particular discipline to complete their assignment, the students reviewed the information and findings contained within the tabs of the other four disciplines. The ePortfolio served as an electronic medical record.

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Karsten, K., McMillan Coddington, D., Lehman, R. M., Pierce, C., Tom, M., & Gallo-Silver, L. (2015). Facilitating Interprofessional Collaboration through ePortfolio: A Pilot Study. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1107866