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Learning to walk before we run: what can medical education learn from the human body about integrated care?
Authors:
Eron G. Manusov ,
US
About Eron
MD, Duke Southern Regional Area Health Education (SRAHEC) Family Medicine Residency. Fayetteville, NC. USA
Daniel P. Marlowe,
US
About Daniel
PhD, Duke Southern Regional Area Health Education (SRAHEC) Family Medicine Residency. Fayetteville, NC. USA
Deborah J. Teasley
US
About Deborah
PhD, Duke Southern Regional Area Health Education (SRAHEC) Family Medicine Residency. Fayetteville, NC. USA
Abstract
True integration requires a shift in all levels of medical and allied health education; one that emphasizes team learning, practicing, and evaluating from the beginning of each students' educational experience whether that is as physician, nurse, psychologist, or any other health profession. Integration of healthcare services will not occur until medical education focuses, like the human body, on each system working inter-dependently and cohesively to maintain balance through continual change and adaptation. The human body develops and maintains homeostasis by a process of communication: true integrated care relies on learned interprofessionality and ensures shared responsibility and practice.
How to Cite:
Manusov EG, Marlowe DP, Teasley DJ. Learning to walk before we run: what can medical education learn from the human body about integrated care?. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2013;13(2):None. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.1128
Published on
23 May 2013.
Peer Reviewed
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