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JPT Research Digest
MBTI® for Interprofessional Communication
Smith, L. J., Curtis, C.P., Perry, M., LoVasco, L., and Yorke, A. M., and Talley, S.A., (2019). MBTI® Type and Interprofessional Communication Skills in Doctor of Physical Therapy students. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice. V. 17 No. 4 ISSN 1540-580X, (Article 9), pp. 1-12 |
Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important area of healthcare education that supports students to learn about, from, and with each other through collaborative and direct efforts. An important doctrine of learning objectives, established by the IPE Collaborative, is to help to improve patient outcomes and use of health care and to promote clear and appropriate communication. In past analyses of communication barriers in healthcare communication, personality factors appeared as a key variable and personality types influenced attitudes towards teamwork, professional rapport, among other elements.
The purpose of the study was to first characterize the distribution of types in a sample of master's level students in physical therapy. The sample consisted of 32 students (17 female, 53.1%), ranging in age from 23 to 31 (mean 25.2), which was surprisingly diverse with the most prevalent types ISTJ and ENFJ. Of note in this small sample, women tended towards Extraversion and Thinking significantly more and men towards Introversion and Feeling, which was inconsistent with past findings in physical therapy students.
The remainder of this article focuses on building a platform to explore and support interprofessional education and competency domains for physical therapy students. Recommendations included several suggestions that reflect the importance of incorporating personality types and metacognition into educational methods and provides an excellent foundation for future research in this area.
ARTICLE PERMALINK: https://www.myersbriggs.org/research-and-library/journal-psychological-type/mbti-for-interprofessional-communication/
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