Community colleges collaboration

Even though Linda and Heidi s work focuses on first-year writing, their workshops with faculty across the curriculum and their discussions with a variety of stakeholders provide a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary DCM collaborative approach akin to Barry s interdisciplinary DCM assessment plan at Mid Michigan Community College (MMCC). Stations... 

Davenport, D.L., Henderson, W.G., Mosca, C.L. et al. (2007) Risk-adjusted morbidity in teaching hospitals correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures of teamwork climate, safety climate, or working conditions. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 205(6),... 

About the Author Dr. Doucette is a Professor in the Division of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Iowa. He received a B.S. in pharmacy, an M.S. in pharmacy administration, and a Ph.D. in social and administrative sciences in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin. He has managed several community pharmacies. His teaching interests are in pharmacy management and marketing of health care, whereas his primary research interest is evaluating pharmacy services and collaboration between pharmacists and other health care professionals. Dr. Doucette has published his work in many pharmacy journals. 

I would like to thank my co-workers, C. E. Ruggiero, S. M. Carrier, and R. P. Houser and collaborators, W. E. Antholine (National EPR Center, Medical College of Wisconsin), J. W. Whittaker (Carnegie Mellon University), and C. J. Cramer (University of Minnesota) for their extensive contributions to the work cited herein. I also thank B. A. Averill and E. Adman for providing preprints prior to publication. Funding was provided by the Exxon Education Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Searle Scholars Program-Chicago Community Trust, the National Biomedical ESR Center in Milwaukee, and the University of Minnesota. 

Curricula In colleges and universities reflect not only the state of knowledge In the discipline but the Interests of the faculty. In turn, those Interests, because of the nature of the academic value and reward systems, are Influenced powerfully by disciplinary fashions. If industrial research needs happened to coincide with disciplinary fashions, this Symposium would likely never have been organized nor would there have been such repetitious scrutiny of the boundary between Industrial and academic science or of the education of the practitioners. Indeed, some of the resurgence of attention to serious research collaboration between the two communities arises In today s coincidence of certain disciplinary fashions and Industrial Interests. 

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