Concepts for the Clinical Learning Environment
Live links to interprofessional education resources to support the clinical learning environment.
Scholarly Works for the Clinical Education Workplace- Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education
A compilation of recent scholarly works for interprofessional trainee education and faculty development.
Live links to articles, coursework, case studies, webinars, curriculum and other items for interest to the interprofessional education and clinical practice community.
Interprofessional population health advocacy: Developing and implementing a panel management curriculum in five Veterans Administration primary care practices
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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.
Texas IPE Consortium Bi-Annual Meeting
The purpose of the Texas Interprofessional Education (IPE) Consortium is to foster cross-institutional collaboration in order to expand learning opportunities and reinforce value for IPE as a critical aspect of health professions education. The Texas IPE Consortium Bi-Annual Meeting is an excellent opportunity to collaborate and network with IPE professionals as we work together to improve interprofessional education and practice at our respective health-related institutions.
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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AIHC-National Center Organizational Models Task Force
The AIHC Organizational Models Task Force was formed in 2019 between members by the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) in conjunction with the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education to design and administer a survey that explored the current status of how IPE is organized in the United States. Results from the inaugural survey in August 2020 can be accessed here: https://nexusipe.org/informing/resource-center/organizational-models-interprofessional-practice-and-education-united