Interprofessional education to create and sustain high-performance teams to support our transforming health care system and future educational model : how nutrition and dietetics can weigh-in / Anne M. Davis, Sandra G. Affenito

Empirical data, industry trends, and the changing health care and business environments point to the need to reexamine the future education of nutrition and dietetics practitioners. To better address the growth of nutrition-related management of chronic disease and disease prevention in the community while safeguarding the public, health care teams with nutrition and dietetics practitioners are expected to increase. Enhanced delivery of nutrition service is supported by results of a comprehensive Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) environmental scan and key stakeholders’ assessment and are corroborated by the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations from the Health Professions Summit. As a result, current focus converges on the competencies and core requirements of health professionals to practice in an ever-evolving health system collaboratively. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Quality Chasm report acknowledges five competencies that should be integrated in the curricula and education of health practitioners, which include: 1) delivery of patient-centered care, 2) interdisciplinary collaboration, 3) evidence-based practice, 4) quality improvement approaches, and 5) informatics.

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