Spotlight on the academic multidisciplinary team: proposals from the 3rd NIHR Newcastle BRC Academic Geriatric Medicine Workshop
Spotlight on the academic multidisciplinary team: proposals from the 3rd NIHR Newcastle BRC Academic Geriatric Medicine Workshop
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 one-day workshop convened by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre in Spring 2021 that focused 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.
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Gordon, Adam L.
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Rochester, Lynn
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Todd, Oliver
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Witham, Miles D., Bridges, Jackie, Gladman, John, Gordon, Adam L., Kay, Susan, Manthorpe, Jill, Roberts, Helen C., Rochester, Lynn, Todd, Oliver, Usman, Adeela and Sayer, Avan A.
(2023)
Spotlight on the academic multidisciplinary team: proposals from the 3rd NIHR Newcastle BRC Academic Geriatric Medicine Workshop.
Clinical Medicine.
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Abstract
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 one-day workshop convened by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre in Spring 2021 that focused 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.
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Accepted/In Press date: 5 October 2023
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MDW and AAS acknowledge support from the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre. AAS is an NIHR Senior Investigator. HCR is supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Wessex and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. JB is supported by NIHR ARC Wessex and JM by NIHR ARC South London.
The virtual workshop on which this commentary is based was hosted by the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre on the 19th of March 2021. Adam Gordon is an NIHR Senior Investigator and is part funded by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration-East Midlands (ARC-EM). The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Adam L. Gordon
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Susan Kay
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Jill Manthorpe
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Lynn Rochester
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Oliver Todd
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Adeela Usman
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Avan A. Sayer
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