Determining the impact of an interprofessional teaching clinic on patients' experience of care
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Stephen Jernigan; Sarah Shrader; Hannah Maxfield
- Source
- Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. 15:38-42
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
030504 nursing
education
Sample (statistics)
Causality
Education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Patient satisfaction
Family medicine
medicine
Survey data collection
030212 general & internal medicine
0305 other medical science
Psychology
- Language
- ISSN
- 2405-4526
Purpose To understand patients’ experience of care provided by a team of students in an interprofessional teaching clinic. Methods Patient satisfaction survey data was collected during a two-week period annually for three years. A sample of patients were interviewed to understand their experience of care. A mixed methods approach was used for data analysis. Results One-hundred-eighty-one patient satisfaction surveys and 13 interviews were analyzed. On average, 73.7% of patients agreed/strongly agreed that having a team of students improved their care and 99.3% would return to the clinic. Patients had both positive and constructive comments regarding the interprofessional model of care. Conclusion The interprofessional teaching clinic is associated with a positive experience of care for patients. Further research is needed to determine causality and to isolate the most impactful elements of the interprofessional model of care.