Showcase Presenter: National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare

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    Showcase Presenter: National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare

    Showcase title:

    The National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare Enhancing Interprofessional Integrative Health Education

    Presenter Bios:

    Audrey Brooks, PhD

    • Project Director/Evaluator, National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare

    Audrey Brooks, PhD, has over 25 years’ experience in program evaluation, research methodology, applied statistics, qualitative methods and conducting clinical, basic science, and educational research studies. She is the Project Director and Evaluator on the HRSA-funded National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare. She is the evaluator/statistician on the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine education projects, designing evaluation strategies, analyzing and presenting evaluation findings, and working with leadership to utilize evaluation findings for program development. She has participated on the dissemination, training, quality assurance, regulatory, measurement, gender, and minority committees in the National Institute of Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network (CTN) for 15 years. As part of her role in the CTN, she was responsible for meeting with and liaising between diverse stakeholder groups, coordinating the flow of information on a national and local level, assisting in the compilation of education and research materials, contributing to consensus recommendations, and dissemination of materials and procedures generated by the various committees. Other CTN activities included protocol development, site coordination, quality monitoring and regulatory activities for specific protocols, literature reviews, and secondary data analysis projects. She has served as the evaluator/methodologist /statistician on NIH and SAMHSA-funded projects including: cancer prevention training for residents, complementary and alternative medicine clinical trials and basic science studies, substance abuse treatment and prevention, HIV prevention for youth, and cancer prevention. She has served as consultant to a homeopathic pharmaceutical company for several years, developing a pharmacovigilance monitoring and reporting system and designing in-house research studies. She has presented at national conferences and published in the areas of substance abuse, gender issues, resident wellbeing, homeopathy, HIV, energy medicine and Emotional Freedom Techniques.

     

    Elizabeth Goldblatt, PhD, MPA/HA

    • Interprofessional Leadership Team, National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare
    • Chair, Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health

    Elizabeth Goldblatt, PhD, MPA/HA has been involved in the IP Education/Collaborative Practice (IPE/PC) movement for 25 years, including work with conventional medical providers and the complementary and integrated health (CIH) care providers in collaborative research, educational and clinical settings. She is currently Executive Director of the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH; formerly ACCAHC). Dr. Goldblatt is one of the founding members of ACIH; she was the first ACIH Vice-Chair, and from 2007-2015, she served as chair of the ACIH board of directors. She serves on the 6year Institute of Medicine (IOM) Global Forum for Global Innovations in Health Professional Education. She is currently on the leadership team of the University of Arizona’s HRSA funded project – the National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare, on several ACIH committees and teaches integrative health at several colleges, as well as mentors clinical doctoral students. Dr. Goldblatt served as vice-president of the Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from 1990-1996, president from 1996-2002 and is currently on the CCAOM Finance Committee. Goldblatt also co-chaired the Education Committee of the North American Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Council, from 1993 to 2003 and served on the Board of Trustees for Pacific University. From 1988-2003, Goldblatt was president of the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM). A leader in the CIH field, she has worked with individual and national organizations to promote and educate on collaborative, team-based patient-centered care for prevention, health promotion and the treatment of diseases.

    Content Description:

    Evidence for the clinical and cost effectiveness of integrative healthcare is accruing; however a shortage of trained integrative health providers has hindered widespread adoption of these approaches into the healthcare system. The University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) in collaboration with the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health received a HRSA grant to establish the National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare (NCIPH) to address this need. The NCIPH supports the incorporation of competency-and evidence-based Integrative Healthcare (IH) curricula into educational programs. The ultimate goal of this project is to transform primary care health professional education to include an emphasis on providing an integrative approach to patient care utilizing an interprofessional collaborative team.

    The center goals are:

    1. Establish an interprofessional leadership team.
    2. Develop a coordinated set of competencies in IH across primary care professions
    3. Develop a 45-hour interprofesssional IH curriculum for primary care
    4. Create an accessible and interactive online infrastructure to house IH curriculum, best practices, and resources
    5. Develop patient education materials and facilitate access to IH practitioners working with the underserved

    The NCIPH established competencies, developed curricula and best practices taking into consideration the determinants of health including physical and social environment, individual health behaviors and health services related to the practice of IH to effect health outcomes. Experts on the NCIPH leadership team representing primary care residency training programs, nursing, public health, pharmacy, behavioral health, and complementary and integrative health professions convened to create a shared set of meta-competencies in integrative healthcare for primary care disciplines. An overview of the center’s goals and progress in achieving them will be presented. The meta-competencies and needs assessment results served as a base for developing a 45-hour online interprofessional curriculum for primary care education training programs, Foundations in Integrative Health. The NCIPH Foundations in Integrative Health course is an introductory competency based interprofessional course. The content responds to the core principles of integrative health and addresses the competencies developed by the NCIPH interprofessional leadership team. Course material is presented with a focus on an interprofessional collaborative team approach and include diverse case examples. The course modules include: 1) Introduction to Integrative Health in Primary Care; 2) Prevention and Lifestyle Behaviors/Motivational Interviewing; 3) Healthcare Professional Wellbeing; 4) Addressing Patients through an Integrative Lens in Primary Care; 5) Integrative Interventions; 6) Integrative Healthcare in Community Settings & Systems at Large; and 7) Final Reflections. We will demonstrate the curricular components of the online curriculum. A pilot study evaluating the course was conducted at 75 primary care educational training programs and healthcare clinic sites. The Foundations in Integrative Health course pilot study design, site characteristics, and evaluation data will be presented. Course dissemination strategies following the pilot study will be discussed.

    Learner Objectives:

    1. Describe how the National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare addresses gaps in primary care education and resources for meeting healthcare needs by utilizing an interprofessional collaborative team approach that includes a strong focus on prevention, and the creation of health and wellbeing.
    2. Experience the interactive, online exemplar modules from the Foundations in Integrative Health course.
    3. Identify the steps to incorporate web-based education in interprofessional integrative health in educational programs, healthcare systems, and healthcare clinic settings.