A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Interprofessional Healthcare Education: Communication Ethics in Action

<p>Healthcare professionals belong to a moral community. Caring for patients is a community act carried out by healthcare professionals working in teams within complex political and organizational systems. This teamwork is crucial to quality patient outcomes; however, incivility threatens to derail necessary and effective collaboration towards the common organizational good. Necessarily, interprofessional healthcare education is becoming a required element for pre-health professionals. Currently, schools are using competency-based approaches to interprofessional education to teach ethics/values, roles/responsibilities. communication, and teamwork. For reasons explicated throughout this dissertation, the categorizing of these particular elements as competencies is problematic and cultivated within a positivistic and empirical worldview. By exploring concepts of professionality/interprofessionality, biomedical discourse, and ethics, this dissertation shows how a focus on competency frames conversation, shapes certain outcomes, and limits the educational opportunity for impactful exploration of difference and meaning. A rhetoric and philosophy approach to team building is recommended as a necessary complement to the current educational model.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Corr, Matthew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Janie Fritz
• Richard H. Thames
• Ronald C. Arnett

• healthcare
• education
• ethics
• rhetoric
• philosophy of communication
• virtues
• profession
• interprofessional

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1759

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2808