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

Witham, Miles D.; Bridges, Jackie; Gladman, John; Gordon, Adam L.; Kay, Susan; Manthorpe, Jill; Roberts, Helen C.; Rochester, Lynn; Todd, Oliver; Usman, Adeela; Sayer, Avan A.

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 discussionsfrom 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 nonmedical 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.

Citation

Witham, M. D., Bridges, J., Gladman, J., Gordon, A. L., Kay, S., Manthorpe, J., Roberts, H. C., Rochester, L., Todd, O., Usman, A., & Sayer, A. A. (2023). Spotlight on the academic multidisciplinary team: proposals from the 3rd NIHR Newcastle BRC Academic Geriatric Medicine Workshop. Clinical Medicine Journal, 23(6), 611-614. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2023-0389

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 6, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Dec 8, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-11
• Deposit Date: Oct 9, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 30, 2023
• Journal: Clinical Medicine Journal
• Print ISSN: 1470-2118
• Electronic ISSN: 1473-4893
• Publisher: Royal College of Physicians
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 611-614
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2023-0389
• Keywords: Multidisciplinary; Multiprofessional; Ageing; Research
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/25802564