Creighton University: The Interprofessional Education Passport
The intent of the project is to train health professions students to be collaboration ready, allowing them to enter the workforce prepared to provide care via interprofessional teams. The curriculum facilitates students’ thinking about how individual providers and the health care system can improve care for vulnerable populations.
University of Alabama at Birmingham: The Role of Interprofessional Faculty Development in Improving Collaborative Practice Behavior Competencies
This project focuses on the impact of an intensive 4-day faculty development course on simulation debriefing. The intensive course will include didactic and reflective exercises for use in a simulation setting.
University of Minnesota: Utilizing IPECP for Dentistry and Pharmacy
This project is focused on interprofessional education and collaborative practice between pharmacists and oral health professionals by adding medication therapy management services to existing general dentistry practice.
Indiana University: The Bloomington Nexus Project
The Bloomington Nexus project creates a translational model for improving transitional care for patients who have been discharged from acute care.
South Dakota Nexus: Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention
This project focuses on changes among graduate students regarding attitudes and skills that impact their capabilities for addressing population health. Surveys and other assessment tools will be used to measure changes over time. Using a transdisciplinary team of experts in childhood obesity, students will be introduced to the interrelationship of topics presented in the Social Ecological Model (SEM) for Nutrition and Physical Activity Decisions.
University of Minnesota: Enhancing the Primary Care Clinic Team
DFMCH is testing transformative standardized teamwork using an interprofessional practice and education (IPE) approach that includes the patient in the learning, practice and outcome model.
University of Colorado: An Interprofessional Curriculum to Improve Quality and Safety
This educational intervention is intended to drive clinical change. The curriculum focuses on patient safety, creating a "just culture," patient experience and continuous quality improvement (QI). Interprofessional student teams, together with the interprofessional faculty QI teams, identify gaps in the transitions of care between care units.
Medical University of South Carolina: Team Training to Improve Quality and Safety Outcomes
This collaborative intervention evaluates how team training for student learners and clinicians improves quality and safety outcomes in the clinical setting.
Arizona Nexus: Improving Health Outcomes in Independent Senior Housing
The Interprofessional Center for Health and Social Services at the Westward Ho is a student-run, faculty-supervised training unit that provides onsite supportive services to 300 residents of a low-income senior housing community in downtown Phoenix.