Between the Cracks: Designing Multidisciplinary Provider Education to Ensure Equitable Patient Care

Multi-disciplinary education has expanded in the last decade or so as a way to ensure that healthcare teams cooperate, coordinate care and communicate to make care more patient-centered, continuous and reliable. On this episode of Write Medicine I talk with Lorna Lucas, MSM, a healthcare education professional and advocate for equitable healthcare. We discuss the role of multidisciplinary education in improving patient outcomes, the challenges in delivering and evaluating multidisciplinary education, and interventions that emerged during the early months of the COVID 19 pandemic to provide psychosocial support for both professionals and patients. Lorna shares the need to focus on designing and delivering educational content in a holistic, equitable, and patient-centric way that fosters interdisciplinary collaborative practice. She says, “We must look holistically at the team dynamic. It’s great to have everyone performing at the top of their medical discipline. However, coordinated care requires attention between the cracks.” In this episode we talk about the importance of the following: ✔️ Local/onsite champions to support multidisciplinary education✔️ Deep listening to perspectives in each discipline ✔️ Ensuring that everyone involved feels heard✔️ Emphasizing a comprehensive team approach to address challenges, many of which are operational✔️ Designing and delivering programs that work with everyone’s role in mind  We also touched on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted existing disparities and inequities in education. She described how educators can play a role in providing psychosocial support for health professionals and how this support can improve patient outcomes. Connect with Lornae:  [email protected] with AlexTwitterLinkedInHosted and produced by Alexandra Howson PhD, CHCP➡️ Join the Write Medicine community➡️ Fall Series: WriteCME Clinic☕ Buy me a Coffee⭐ Review the podcast🎙️ Share the podcast➡️ Needs Assessment Fall WorkshopThis episode sponsored by CMEpalooza Fall  Support the show📍Grab the WriteCME Roadmap⭐ Review the podcast🗞️ Biweekly Newsletter with tips and resources to enrich your CME content niche➡️ Join WriteCME Pro for ongoing professional development 🌐 Podcast website🎙️ Share the podcast Mentioned in this episode:Why Retreats Work: Disconnection, Body Wisdom, and the Science of Letting GoRewrite Your Power Retreat 2026This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp