Herrera Acena, a long time professor in the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), runs The Spanish Clinic of Brigham and Women’s out of the ambulatory building of the Harvard teaching hospital. In the late 1960s Herrera Acena observed that Latinos/as in...
This paper reports on an interdisciplinary training initiative involving student interpreters and medical students. It provides qualitative evidence on how the stakeholders involved perceive the effects of including foreign-language speaking simulated patients (SPs) in medical interpreter training...
Another recent review of studies found that interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for encouraging innovation and creativity in the classroom, outlining in detail the need to promote interdisciplinarity as a teaching pedagogy in the classroom.
This review study provided the interdisciplinary instructional designers with the design process, the measurement dimensions, and the pedagogical considerations to apply in their classrooms.