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This article describes a project in which the author was involved while employed as an assistant professor in the Health Information Administration Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UMW).
In general, the hypotheses presented at the onset of the study were supported by the results reported here. Over 75 percent of the medical record managers surveyed were from facilities of less than 300 beds. Findings are consistent with characteristics of supervisors in small-to medium-sized departments. The most unique finding relates to the overrepresentation of NP managers in the larger facilities. The NP manager has a global, innovative perspective but also may have trouble coming to closure on projects and decisions. This managerial type will quite easily find other intuitive managers. Other perceiving managers will be found much less frequently and the perceiver must be prepared to have this perspective viewed as unique by other managers who are predominantly Js. Further research is needed to provide detailed explanations for this portion of the results. The majority of this group were classified in the SJ temperament grouping. More sensors were found among ARTs, in smaller facilities, and in the hospital medical record department manager population as a whole when compared to other managers. These findings provide insights that must be recognized and evaluated by the profession as it looks to the future and focuses on long-term goals. This research focuses on hospital medical record managers, only one of many groups that make up the medical record profession. Additional studies are needed to verify results and to evaluate individuals in other hospital medical record positions and in other settings, as well as other allied health managers. This research does, however, provide the basis for future comparisons.
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The increased growth of interdisciplinary education programs in the allied health professions has presented the need for alternate forms of assessment that go beyond basic performance indicators. These assessments would gauge professionally oriented perceptions and related affective domains for participants in such programs. The present study describes the design and validation of an Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS) to meet that added assessment need. In addition to presenting the instrument and its scoring procedures, this study also offers cross-disciplinary normative data and statistical power estimates for appropriate use of the IEPS in evaluative and related research settings.
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The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Clinic was a pilot project to assess the feasibility and efficacy of providing university-based clinical practicum experiences for students in the Schools of Allied Health Professions and Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. It was designed according to the medical model and was based on the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals Standards for Rehabilitative Services. This program was based on the professional conviction that people who are expected to function in an interdisciplinary environment would be better able to do so if educated according to an interdisciplinary model. The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Clinic addressed the university mission of education, research, and service. It provided an opportunity to integrate theory with practice for students in a clinical setting; demonstrated to health professions students that both basic and applied research evolves from and contributes to clinical practice; and provided care for individuals deprived of needed rehabilitative services because of funding cuts and other changes in current health care service delivery systems. The clinic provided rehabilitative service in the form of speech, and occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, and social work services to neurogenically impaired adults from the greater Milwaukee area. Student clinicians evaluated the patient's abilities/disabilities, were observed during the evaluation process by their fellow students, met in joint treatment planning teams, treated the patients, and performed hospital-simulated staffings. Medical record administration (MRA) students assessed and provided in-service on documentation practices, developed a record-keeping system, and designed forms.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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