IPE Faculty Development Training Learning Activity: From Madness to Methods
From Madness to Methods is an evidence-based learning exercise developed by faculty from the Medical College of Wisconsin (Simpson et al., 2010) to provide educators with alternative instructional methods for achieving educational objectives. This active group exercise engages participants for a 1.5-hour session. The object is for each participant to identify one or two new instructional methods to incorporate into their teaching repertoire.
IPE Faculty Development Learning Activity: Interprofessional Pictionary
Interprofessional Pictionary was developed by Debbie Kwan from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Pharmacy in 2007 then edited and adapted by the University of Washington Macy Grant Team to teach the IPE competency domain “Roles and Responsibilities.”
Learning goals:
• Understand how professional roles and responsibilities complement each other
• Identify health profession based on training requirements, usual practice setting and scope of practice
IPE Faculty Development Training Learning Activity: Barnga
Barnga is a simulation game that helps players address challenges they may face when interacting with a different profession’s culture.
IPE Faculty Development: Error Disclosure Training Curriculum
The purposes of this online Error Disclosure faculty toolkit are:
- To be an aid for helping faculty and instructors learn how to teach health professional students the fundamental process for disclosing errors to patients.
- To provide a packaged interprofessional team training session using error disclosure simulation/role-play as the vector by which health professional students can learn together to develop and improve team and communication skills.
The toolkit contains:
American Interprofessional Health Collaborative Webinar
This webinar, held May 8, will feature two university approaches for developing preceptors to be interprofessional champions in the clinical environment. Each case study will provide information on their approaches and materials, lessons learned and strategies for success.
American Interprofessional Health Collaborative Webinar
Join Drs. Linda Headrick and Les Hall as they summarize a decade of experience in teaching quality improvement to interprofessional health professions learners at the University of Missouri.
American Interprofessional Health Collaborative Webinar
Empowering Students. Empowering Communities: Interprofessional Campus to Community Learning Opportunities
Presented By: Shelley Cohen Konrad, Jennifer Morton, and Kerry Dunn
Assessment of IPE to Move Beyond Attitudes: Tools and Case Studies from the Field
Join this free webinar on February 12, presented by the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative and the National Center, and listen to case studies about assessing IPE beyond attitudinal measures. Click the title of this brief for more information.
Promoting interprofessional collaboration: Pharmacy students teaching current and future prescribers about Medicare Part D
BACKGROUND: Nearly all health professional students and prescribers, regardless of specialty, will care for older adults who are enrolled in or eligible for the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit. Given the growing numbers of older adults, the increased burden of chronic disease, and the escalating costs of health care, health professional students and prescribers across disciplines should learn strategies to promote cost-effective prescribing and collaborate with pharmacists who are experts in medication use and costs.
Continuing interprofessional education in geriatrics and gerontology in medically underserved areas
There is a widening gap between the health care needs of older persons and the treatment skills of the health care professionals who serve them. This gap is especially severe in rural areas, where there is a shortage of and inadequate collaboration between health care professionals and poor access to services for older persons.