Implementing an interfaculty series of courses on interprofessional collaboration in prelicensure health science curriculums.

Introduction: Interprofessional collaborative practices are increasingly recognized as an effective way to deal with complex health problems. However, health sciences students continue to be trained in specialized programs and have little occasion for learning in interdisciplinary contexts. Program Development: The project's purpose was to develop content and an educational design for new prelicensure interfaculty courses on interprofessional collaboration in patient and family-centered care which embedded interprofessional education principles where participants learn with, from and about each other. Implementation: Intensive training was part of a 45-hour program, offered each semester, which was divided into three 15-hour courses given on weekends, to enhance accessibility. Evaluation: A total of 215 students completed questionnaires following the courses, to assess their satisfaction with the educational content. Pre/post measures assessed perception of skills acquisition and perceived benefits of interprofessional collaboration training. Results showed a significant increase from the students' point of view in the knowledge and benefits to be gained from interprofessional collaboration training.

L'« Intervention systémique brève » : un manuel thérapeutique

Evaluer l'efficacité d'une thérapie ne devrait pas se limiter à en étudier l'impact sur différentes dimensions pertinentes. En effet, la recherche en psychothérapie insiste sur l'importance de développer des manuels thérapeutiques, afin de décrire ce que les thérapeutes font et donc comprendre ce qui est efficace, ainsi que des protocoles d'adhérence à ces manuels, afin de pouvoir évaluer si les intervenants font effectivement ce qu'ils prétendent faire. Cet article présente le manuel thérapeutique de l'Intervention systémique brève (ISB), un modèle d'intervention en six séances, utilisé dans une consultation pour couples et familles au Département de psychiatrie du CHUV à Lausanne. Ce modèle fait l'objet d'une recherche visant à évaluer son efficacité à court et moyen termes, au moyen de questionnaires remplis par les patients, évaluant différents niveaux : 1) les symptômes individuels, 2) la satisfaction conjugale, 3) la qualité des relations parentales, 4) la qualité des relations coparentales et 5) les relations familiales. L'ISB est un modèle intégratif des principales écoles de thérapie familiale systémique. Pour élaborer le manuel de l'ISB, nous nous sommes basés sur certains principes généraux communs aux différentes approches systémiques. La difficulté d'élaborer un tel manuel thérapeutique intégratif systémique sera discutée.

Performance of panel-based criteria to evaluate the appropriateness of colonoscopy: a prospective study.

BACKGROUND: Prospective data describing the appropriateness of use of colonoscopy based on detailed panel-based clinical criteria are not available. METHODS: In a cohort of 553 consecutive patients referred for colonoscopy to two university-based Swiss outpatient clinics, the percentage of patients who underwent colonoscopy for appropriate, equivocal, and inappropriate indications and the relationship between appropriateness of use and the presence of relevant endoscopic lesions was prospectively assessed. This assessment was based on criteria of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and explicit American and Swiss criteria developed in 1994 by a formal panel process using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method. RESULTS: The procedures were rated appropriate or equivocal in 72.2% by criteria of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, in 68.5% by explicit American criteria, and in 74.4% by explicit Swiss criteria (not statistically significant, NS). Inappropriate use (overuse) of colonoscopy was found in 27.8%, 31.5%, and 25.6%, respectively (NS). The proportion of appropriate procedures was higher with increasing age. Almost all reasons for using colonoscopy could be assessed by the two explicit criteria sets, whereas 28.4% of reasons for using colonoscopy could not be evaluated by the criteria of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (p < 0.0001). The probability of finding a relevant endoscopic lesion was distinctly higher in the procedures rated appropriate or equivocal than in procedures judged inappropriate. CONCLUSIONS: The rate of inappropriate use of colonoscopy is substantial in Switzerland. Explicit criteria allow assessment of almost all indications encountered in clinical practice. In this study, all sets of appropriateness criteria significantly enhanced the probability of finding a relevant endoscopic lesion during colonoscopy.