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Teamwork is a necessity for effective care of patients in the current health care environment. Continuing education providers are best positioned to teach health care professionals about teamwork. However, health care professionals and continuing education providers largely operate in single-profession–based environments and thus need to change their programs and activities to achieve team improvement education goals. Joint Accreditation (JA) for Interprofessional Continuing Education is designed to advance teamwork to improve quality care through education programs. However, achieving JA requires significant changes to an education program that are multifaceted and complex to implement. Although challenging, implementation of JA is an effective way to advance interprofessional continuing education. Here, we discuss numerous practical strategies that can aid education programs to prepare for and achieve JA, such as attaining organizational alignment and provider adaptation to expand curriculums, reinventing the education planning process, and implementing tools to help manage the joint accredited program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the Digital Health course using design thinking approach being offered at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts in collaboration with nonprofit AARP.

Judy Heumann's memoir Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist provides a blueprint for social change. When ordinary people challenge institutional beliefs, refuse to accept tokenism, and collaborate with allies, lasting change occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay draws on fieldwork with a nonprofit organization in Southeast Ohio in order to gain insight into the unique challenges of rural food insecurity. A series of narrative vignettes illustrate how these challenges are maintained through dominant narratives about what food insecurity, charity, poverty, and ruralness "look like." These moments disrupt the binary categories of who gives and who receives aid, and they illuminate how stereotypes and uniformed "solutions" can hinder efforts to create rural food security. Last, this research shows how the people of Southeast Ohio are harnessing regional assets to create collaborative, creative solutions to food access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information on an integrated practice course called Pharmaceutical Comprehensive Experiments offered by the School of Pharmaceutical Science in Zhejiang University in China in 2008.

The article reviews the book "Interorganizational Coordination: Theory, Research, and Implementation," by David L. Rogers and David A. Whetten.

A description of the course "Law in Public Health Practice" being offered by the Future of Public Health Law Education faculty fellowship program is presented.

A description of the course "Seminar in Public Health Law and Policy in an Interprofessional Setting" being offered at the systemic and policy levels in the health care and public health fields is presented.