Kansas Preceptor Toolkit Webinar
The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and the National Center have teamed up to develop a toolkit for preceptors. Resources were designed for providers who wish to transform their practices into exemplary interprofessional collaborative practice and interprofessional education sites for patients, students, and other healthcare practitioners.
True Grit: Promoting Student Resiliency Through Interprofessional Education (IPE)
Health professional students must learn how to be resilient. Today’s global society is increasingly diverse and complex requiring resiliency to successfully navigate challenges in the workplace. Healthcare students learn core knowledge, skills, attitudes and values and are asked to quickly apply learning to a clinical or functional setting. Their ability to move from receiving direct instruction to clinical practice is facilitated through supervised interprofessional training in simulation, experiential opportunities, and co-curricular settings that develop practitioner re
The Silent Treatment: Why Safety Tools and Checklists Aren’t Enough to Save Lives
Silence Kills was conducted immediately before AACN’s national standards for healthy work environments were released. It identified seven concerns that often go undiscussed and contribute to avoidable medical errors. It linked the ability of health professionals to discuss emotionally and politically risky topics in a healthcare setting to key results like patient safety, quality of care, and nursing turnover, among others.
Team-Based Competencies Building a Shared Foundation For Education and Clinical Practice
Most experts, including the conference sponsors and the IPEC panel, believe that in order to deliver high-quality, safe and efficient care, and meet the public’s increasingly complex health care needs, the educational experience must shift from one in which health profession students are educated in silos to one that fosters collaboration, communication and a team approach to providing care.
Primary Care Progress
Primary Care Progress (PCP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization working to revitalize the primary care system and build a new interprofessional generation of leaders in primary care. PCP is harnessing a student-led grassroots mobilization strategy, teaching students and other trainees skills in leadership, innovation, and advocacy so they can launch local campaigns to promote primary care, advance innovations in care delivery, and accelerate educational reform.
Changing organizational structure of an interdisciplinary student-run clinic: A case study of Phillips Neighborhood Clinic
As a clinic with limited resources, and operated solely by volunteers, the PNC has experienced many changes in its volunteer and leadership bodies. These changes occur usually during leadership transition and are often the result of volunteer initiative to expand the services and quality of those services offered at the clinic. Changes typically arise for one of four reasons:
Future Oriented—changes to expand and improve the clinic
Problem Solving—changes to adapt to challenges or issues
IPAS: Interprofessional Attitudes Scale
IPAS is a scale designed to assess attitudes that relate to the 2011 Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. IPAS is one of the first scales to focus specifically on the Core Competencies. IPAS consists of 27 items in 5 sub-scales, which we have called "Teamwork, Roles, and Responsibilities", "Patient-Centeredness", "Interprofessional Biases", "Diversity & Ethics", and "Community-Centeredness". IPAS was created from factor analysis of survey data collected from over 700 student respondents at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in 2012.
What is not IPE: Shared Learning
In March 2015, Dr. Frank Cerra spoke at a symposium at DePaul University, in which he provided an overview for advancing health care through the “Nexus.” Dr. Cerra stressed the rapid redesign of health care delivery and the subsequent need for health care leaders to strengthen their commitment to implementing an interprofessional approach.
Video courtesy of the DePaul University Advancement Office.
National Center Journal Club #6: "There Is No “I” in Teamwork in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Defining Teamwork Competencies for Academic Practice
Teamwork is essential for the safe, reliable delivery of health care, but creating health care teams that function effectively in patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) remains challenging.
In this webinar, Dr. Emily Leasure and Dr. M. Nawal Lutfiyya discussed the challenges of building health care teams that operate well in a PCMH environment.
