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CURRENT ISSUE BACK ISSUES SUBSCRIBE ADVERTISE ABOUT JCEHP FOR AUTHORS JCEHP AWARD SEARCH		Volume 29 (3) Volume 29, Issue 3, Summer 2009 J Contin Educ Health Prof 2009; 29(3):185 FOUNDATIONS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION Imagining a continuing interprofessional education program (CIPE) within surgical training Kitto SC, Gruen RL, Smith JA A b s t r a c t In recent years increasing attention has been paid to issues of professionalism in surgery and the content and structure of continuing professional development for surgeons; however, little attention has been paid to interprofessional education (IPE) in surgical training. Imagining the form(s) of IPE and/or continuing interprofessional education (CIPE) programs within surgical training requires serious attention to 2 fundamental issues-the discourses of professionalism in surgery and the professional culture of surgery, as shaped and expressed within the clinical setting. We explore the possibility that concepts of professionalism within surgery may be in conflict with the tenets of interprofessionalism held by other health and medical professionals. We believe that if any rapprochement is to occur between the concept of professionalism in surgical training (and within the everyday clinical culture of surgical subspecialties groups and their professional institutions) and broader discourses of interprofessionalism circulating within health care institutions, there is a pressing need to understand and deconstruct this conflict from the point of view of surgery. Lessons For Practice The construction of professionalism embodied in surgical colleges and curricula needs to be articulated with interprofessional education and practice values held by the broader community of health professionals. ACIPE surgical program should be informed by the reality of medical and surgical cultures that historically have inhibited CIPE and interprofessional collaboration. Surgical trainees may be involved directly in CIPE training founded upon experiential learning with the use of surgical safety checklists in simulated environments. A CIPE research agenda could unpack the values and norms of the situated cultures of surgery to inform CIPE program development.
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