Advanced Cardiac Life Support Curricula

Enhancing Advanced Cardiac Life Support Curricula according to interprofessional competencies and the role of collaborative group work in achieving aims of the course

Enhancing Advanced Cardiac Life Support Curricula according to interprofessional competencies and the role of collaborative group work in achieving aims of the course

1. Introduction and signposting of what the paper will talk about and what it argues
2. Definition and history of Interprofessional education (IPE)/educational theories and rationale informing IPE
3. The need ‘why’ for IPE in healthcare education in general and in relation to ACLS in specific
4. IPE competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice in the U.S and evaluation of the ACLS course curriculum against those competencies
5. Discussion of the gaps found in section 4 and how they relate to ACLS educational and clinical observations in terms of miscommunication, disorganization, misunderstanding, work culture barriers…etc. and how they impact clinical performance and patient outcome
6. Enhancing the ACLS course curriculum according to IPE competencies. For example, using the constructive alignment framework – Biggs theory
7. What collaborative group work offers and how it can serve as a vehicle for achieving the aims of the curriculum
8. Conclusion

I would just caution that the paper needs to be about curriculum design and the place of small group work within that. Please make sure that there is a strong link between your discussion of IPE and curriculum design/learning in small groups, in each section. In other words, the overarching themes of curriculum design and the use of small groups need to run like a thread through each section.

I don’t think you need to feel wedded to using Constructive alignment as a framework for IPE, unless that is really relevant. Basically you need to consider the curricular considerations of implementing IPE – the implications for the curriculum of IPE. And within that, you could discuss what collaborative group work has to offer. All in relation to the ACLS course.

Just be careful to not spend the majority of the paper in a descriptive account of IPE – really focus on the implications for the curriculum. Sections 2-5 should really be quite short – with a longer section really critically evaluating the implications in sections 6 and 7.

I will attach some documents to be used for this paper. However, I need a lot more (40 minimum) to support any piece of information you will present. Also, please add the link of any reference right underneath it so I can have access to it. This is because I wasn’t able to find some references in the past and this was questioned by the tutor as well.

Please use ‘I’ as a first speaker in the paper. This is especially the case when discussing ACLS educational and clinical observations. Feel free to use I in other areas of the paper as deemed appropriate.

Please use the points above as section titles. You can modify them if necessary.

Please take your time and feel free to ask me any question to help you produce an excellent paper.

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