Interprofessional transformation of clinical education: The first six years of the Veterans Affairs Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education
Full Text/Open Access Article: This paper describes the Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE), a seven-site collaborative project funded by the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) within the Veterans Health Administration of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The CoEPCE was established to fulfill OAA's vision of large-scale transformation of the clinical learning environment within VA primary care settings.
Telehealth Primary Care: Clinical Workplace Learning and Building the Interprofessional Academic Primary Care PACT/Medical Home
Health professions clinical training programs often lack telehealth training experiences despite available technology and clear benefits to patients. To address this gap, Boise & San Francisco Telehealth V-IMPACT Hubs in the Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education partnered with the Atlanta VAMC Telehealth V-IMPACT Hub to design telehealth curriculum for health profession education in PACT.
Seattle CoEPCE: Redesigned Precepting Room and Warm Handoff Curriculum
In VA's Office of Academic Affiliations Seattle Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education, pharmacy and psychology presence in the precepting room with medicine and nurse practitioner trainees has led to frequent informal consults and facilitated warm handoffs between professions, including PC-MHI. New curriculum focused on warm handoffs promotes communication and exchange of different profession perspectives about optimal transitions of care between primary care team members.
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Preceptors in the Nexus Toolkit
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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:
Interprofessional Case Management Experience (ICME)
Interprofessional Case Management Experience Students from multiple disciplines will meet together to consider a case, develop an interprofessional care plan, share documentation, and resolve a simulated case scenario.
SAMSHA Core Competency Workshops for BH-PC Student Interns
A rigorous 2-semester curriculum for the Certificate in Integrated Primary Care and Behavioral Health was designed and implemented as a 1-year training and evaluation tool with 22 BH-PC students. The curriculum was deigned through collaboration and integration from social work, counseling psychology and psychiatric nursing as a way to build upon the disciplines similarities and guide the students into a collaborative interdisciplinary perspective with their BH VOAs.
Interprofessional Curriculum for Care of Older Adults (iCCOA)
The Interprofessional Curriculum for Care of Older Adults (iCCOA), is a project funded by HRSA to develop and evaluate an interdisciplinary geriatric curriculum for medical, nursing, social work, counseling psychology, pharmacy, dentistry, and law students, fellows and residents. Other learners include professional health care workers, community organizers, peer mentors and frontline workers.
Interprofessional Health Care Escape Rooms
Escape rooms are a current fad sweeping across the county in which teams of players are usually “locked” in a room and have to solve a series of puzzles serially or in parallel to “escape” the room. This escape room concept was adapted at the University of Minnesota with the intention that teams of interprofessional students would work together to complete a series of puzzles found throughout the room. The experiences are embedded in a health care case scenario. This innovative gaming simulation can improve interprofessional communication and team skills.
Report from the 2018 Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit- IPCE Works! Identifying Measures of Success and Evaluating Our Impact
On July 29, 2018, 61 interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) professionals, representing 38 organizations, participated in the fourth annual Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit. The Summit was convened by the three accreditors that cofounded Joint Accreditation: the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
