Spotlight on the academic multidisciplinary team: proposals from the 3rd NIHR Newcastle BRC Academic Geriatric Medicine Workshop.

Publisher: Elsevier Ltd Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101092853 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1473-4893 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 14702118 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Clin Med (Lond) Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2024- : [Oxford] : Elsevier Ltd.
Original Publication: London : The College, c2001-

Geriatrics* ; Biomedical Research*; Humans ; Aged ; Quality of Health Care ; Patient Care Team

High-quality care for older people is best delivered by multidisciplinary teams involving a range of professions. Similarly, if research evidence is to effectively inform practice, it needs to be designed and executed by teams that are both multidisciplinary and multiprofessional. Here, we summarise the discussions from a 1-day workshop convened by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre in Spring 2021, which focussed on multidisciplinary academic teams. Barriers to success include small numbers of clinical academic researchers across all professions focussing on older people, and lack of career pathways, role models and support for non-medical clinical researchers. The workshop identified strengths in the tradition of multidisciplinary working in the care of older people, research questions that lend themselves naturally to multidisciplinary working, increasing interest from funders in multidisciplinary research, and untapped opportunities for greater commercial engagement. Initiatives to improve engagement of students and trainees, mentorship, career pathways, networking across research centres and possibly developing a national School of Older People's Care Research are all ways that we can ensure the growth of multidisciplinary research to best serve older people's health and social care in the future.
(© Royal College of Physicians 2023. All rights reserved.)

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Keywords: ageing; multidisciplinary; multiprofessional; research

Date Created: 20231208 Date Completed: 20231216 Latest Revision: 20240428

20240428

PMC11046687

10.7861/clinmed.2023-0389

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