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Live links to interprofessional education resources to support the clinical learning environment.

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What you'll get from this toolkit

The toolkit provides professional development opportunities for preceptors who provide education in practice settings to interprofessional learners. This includes a wide array of tools that support and enrich interprofessional practice and education to enhance patient care and the learner experience. You can use any or all of the tools in a variety of settings- everything is customizable! The tools are available in a variety of formats:

Educate with this big picture look at the external forces affecting the nursing profession.

Use this tool to engage people about the external forces impacting your team and the nursing profession experience.

• Broaden perspectives about what’s driving change
• Generate strategic thinking
• Set the context for operational change

Educate with this big picture look at the external forces affecting physician practices.

Use this tool to engage people about the external forces impacting your team and the patient experience.

• Broaden perspectives about what’s driving change
• Generate strategic thinking
• Set the context for operational change

In the United States, there is a heightened national awareness of the central role of primary care in improving population health and managing cost growth.  Health care provider organizations, payers and policymakers need to identify preferred and sustainable primary care workforce models that draw on available knowledge to ensure access to high quality, cost-efficient health care that is to the satisfaction of patients and providers.  To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded Abt Associates and its partners, the MacColl Center for Health Care Innova

An integral component of interprofessional education (IPE) is the development of a collaboration-ready health-care workforce.  While collaboration is a fundamental element of IPE, there is no existing measure of collaboration skills that is not context specific.  This article describes the development and initial validation of the Self-Assessed Collaboration Skills (SACS) measure.  Items were initially drawn from the Collaboration Skills Assessment Tool rubric, an educational assessment tool.  The SACS measure was piloted in a sample of students in and introductory IPE course.  Following sc

The attached two-sided document is an IPE Reflection Worksheet and is mapped to Kirkpatrick Levels.  This tool was presented at the 2017 CAB VI Conference (Ofstad, Noureddine, Hagge, & Brady, 2017).  An online version of this tool may be viewed at:  https://goo.gl/forms/tkpTrb6Nh3wHQMVB3

This 4-item, 3-point scale is modified from the original 7-item scale and is adapted for ease of applicability to clinical settings. It is intended for the assesment of individuals within an interprofessional team in a patient encounter, to provide performance feedback. The scale was validated in the standardized setting of a Team Objective Structured Clinical Encounter (Generalizability coefficient .73). It can be applied to any health profession. The behaviors/skills observed are Collaboration, Roles, Patient/Family-Centeredness and Conflict Management.

The ATRA Standards for the Practice of Recreational Therapy & Self-Assessment Guide, published in 2013, consists of 12 standards and the Self-Assessment Guide (SOP/SAG).  The manual was written in a format that provides a comprehensive description of recreational therapy practice, consistent with requirements of accrediting and regulatory agencies and quality recreational therapy practice.

Scientifically developed and validated online tools for managing teams. Includes the Team-Maker, which assigns students to teams using instructor-specified criteria selected from a list of questions or written by the instructor. Also includes CATME Peer Evaluation, which collects and summarizes student self- and peer evaluations.  Provides feedback to students and data to the instructor. 

The CATME Team Tools system has been used by over 630,000 students world wide.