Antoon Cox, Ellen Rosenberg, Anne-Sophie Thommeret-Carrière, Luc Huyghens, Phillippe Humblé, Yvan Leanza
Using patient companions as interpreters in the Emergency Department: An interdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative assessment
Patient education and counseling
interprofessional education activities prevalent across health professional curricula canada students develop collaborative roles structured oncampus programming however ways established teams engage learners hospital settings unknown explore mixeddiscipline professionals describe expectations experiences related collaborating pharmacy students join team training mixeddiscipline team members acute medicine clinical teaching unit interviewed according semistructured interview guide participants described encounters pharmacy trainees shared expectations students collaborator roles patient care audiorecordings interviews transcribed coded independently 2 researchers synthesized data used template analysis method derive themes fourteen team members various disciplines recruited participants descriptions collaborative roles organized 2 main themes pharmacy students informants pharmacy students bridge third integrative theme engagement encompassed team members described pharmacy trainees enacting roles team members sought pharmacy students medicationoriented expertise eg dosing compatibilities physicians often relied students familiarity study data guide treatment choices nonphysicians capitalized pharmacy student proximity physicians understand decisionmaking inform patient care accounts pharmacy students consultations team members patient assessments access multidisciplinary knowledge infrequent team members expectations pharmacy students terms collaborator role lacked routine engagement shared decisionmaking views represent challenges development skills collaborative care workplacebased learning might addressed intentional interprofessional exercises assigned preceptors study required understand potential practicebased interprofessional education initiatives