Establishing Transdisciplinary Professionalism for Improving Health Outcomes Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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5 Transdisciplinary Professionalism
5 Transdisciplinary Professionalism
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Kishore asked his panelists to focus their remarks on the basis of this definition of transdisciplinary professionalism. According to roundtable participant Dave Chokshi, who recently finished his residency in primary care, his starting point in terms of a shared 43
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Health professionals must be transparent in gauging success of treatments, sharing metrics, and answering questions honestly. Through his perspective as a primary care doctor, Chokshi thought his work was particularly relevant to the discussion of establishing a contract with society primary care, he explained, sits at the nexus between the community and the health care system or between medicine and public health.
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For example, changes in reimburse ents for what health professionals can charge m influence what individual health professionals do and the learning environment that gets created for health professional students. In her opinion, the social contract that the Forum is grappling with, defined as transdisciplinary professionalism, could guide positive changes in health care.
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In his opinion, the social contract must address health care literacy and provide people with the tools to understand the system. It is no coincidence that navigators are being hired
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Graduates often choose to specialize in internal medicine, cardiology, or radiology, however, because the private sector in India has grown so rapidly that doctors who enter these specialty areas have the potential of making a lot of money. Jones echoed Negandhi's comment and endorsed a vision of what a reconfigured health care system could be that would empower young p hysicians and nurses to practice together so that health professionals would be driving the system as opposed to entrepreneurs.
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There needs to be a language so that the public understands what transdisciplinary professionalism is and so that health professionals better understand the needs of these populations. In a similar regard, Jones expressed a need to go beyond the standard academic health training model to include community organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, as well as families and caregivers.
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Looking more closely at the area of patient engagement, Kornblau referred to the Center for Advancing Health, which defines patient engagement as "actions individuals must take to obtain the greatest benefit from the health care services available to them" (Center for Advancing Health, 2010)
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Educator Perspective As chancellor of the University of the West Indies and director emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization, George Alleyne was well positioned to comment on the discussions and presentations that took place on the social contract for health. His remarks were framed within the context of innovation in health professional education and focused on whether it is possible to educate professions in a transdisciplinary manner and include the elements of a shared social contract.
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Alleyne noted that the chronic noncommunicable diseases have now surpassed the acute communicable diseases as causes of death in most parts of the world. As a result, many societies are adopting models of continuous care that essentially involve the patient, the family, the community, and health care services at different levels.
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Such experiential learning does the most to engender relationships with the patients, with other health workers, and with society that must, according to Alleyne, be the bedrock of good health care. In his summative assessment of transdisciplinary professionalism, Alleyne suggested that innovative transdisciplinary pedagogy
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Results from the 2010 Commonwealth Fund international health policy survey. Canadian Health Care Matters, Bulletin 5.
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