TeamSTEPPS National Conference
Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) is an evidence-based set of teamwork tools, aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals. The conference will feature a variety of speakers, discussing topics related to teamwork and health care in a professional setting.
Registration for the free conference is now open. Please visit the TeamSTEPPS website for additional information.
ABSAME 45th Anniversary Meeting
ABSAME is working to more rapidly, creatively and strategically train the next generation of practitioners. This meeting, focusing on IPECP, is designed to help individuals network with other health professions educators engaged in developing dynamic patient-centered heath care curricula. Registration is now open. Please visit the ABSAME website for additional information.
Call for Abstracts: Southeastern IPE Conference
Organizers are currently accepting abstract proposals for poster presentations that are examples of interprofessional practice, interprofessional care of multiple chronic conditions, innovations in interprofessional education and practice, IPE implementation and growth, IPE scholarship and IPE team functionality. Read the guidelines and learn more about the conference, held in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., on June 11, on the conference website.
Deadline: March 31
Call for Abstracts: SBIRT for Alcohol and Other Drug Use: An Interprofessional Conference
Health care educators are invited to submit an abstract on projects relevant to Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol and other drug use in primary care, hospitals, dental offices and other interprofessional health care settings. Read the guidelines and learn more about the conference, held June 9-10, on the conference website.
Deadline: March 1
Call for Presentations: ABSAME 45th Anniversary Meeting
The Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education (ABSAME) is accepting presentation abstracts for its annual meeting “Linking the Arts and Sciences to Promote Patient-Centered Care.” Presentations should be relevant to the creative and strategic training of practitioners, as well as other areas relevant to the behavioral sciences and health professions education in general. Read the guidelines and learn more about the meeting, held October 15-17, on their website.
Educating interprofessional learners for quality, safety and systems improvement
Most health professionals in training, as well as those in practice, lack the knowledge and skills they need to play an effective role in systems improvement. Until very recently, these competencies were not included in formal (or informal) educational curricula. Interprofessional collaboration – another core competency needed for successful systems improvement – is also inadequately taught and learned. Achieving Competence Today (ACT) was designed as a new model for interprofessional education for quality, safety and health systems improvement.
What can be done to encourage more interprofessional collaboration in health care?
In this issue brief, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundaton discusses ways to encourage more interprofessional collaboration in health care.
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