Interprofessional Education (IPE) was integrated into one post graduate transition to practice program, also known as Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship, for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) and Physician Assistants (PAs) fellows. The program, led by a faculty of APRNs and a physician, was challenged to transition traditional in-seat curriculum to e-learning platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The stay-at-home orders also disrupted local medical school curriculum…

Collaboration between nursing and business faculty, clinical practice staff, and a graduate business student led to the formation of a business model for primary care (PC). This model demonstrates that optimizing practice in the interprofessional clinical learning environment has a direct positive impact on patient care. Primary care practice challenges include fragmented and duplicated services and insufficient care coordination resulting in increased cost and decreased quality.…

The Commission on Dental Accreditation standards require that dental and dental hygiene learners participate in interprofessional education (IPE) during their academic training. IPE is an integral step towards developing practitioners who understand their own roles, the roles of other health professionals, and who can effectively communicate and collaborate with other providers. An initial step in the acquisition and application of IPE is for students to perceive it as relevant. Learners who…

Effective interprofessional (IP) experiences in the clinical learning environment are needed to enhance student competence in communication and collaboration. This talk will describe a core set of activities and assessment developed to optimize the learning and application of team-based skills in the clinical environment. A team of IP faculty developed a comprehensive model for IP teams in the clinical learning environment called ILEAP (Interprofessional Learning…

The purpose of this lightning talk is to discuss the need for statewide interprofessional education to improve team based health care delivery, facilitate partnership across the health professional schools, strengthen the relationship between state health professions educators and the North Carolina (NC) AHEC program; and share best practices and lessons learned from efforts to be inclusive, gain buy-in, develop structure, and preserve momentum for advancing IPE. With approximately 60 health…

GROW-Rochester is an interprofessional developmental screening program for children 12 months-5 years of age offered within child care, early education, pediatric and other accessible community-based settings for the purposes of identifying young children’s developmental needs in the areas of: hearing, vision, dental health, speech-language, cognitive, and social-emotional development. Interprofessional collaborative practice and partnership serve as the foundation for this…

The oral health examination is proposed to be essential to medical education and a Healthy People 2020 indicator, though not routinely taught. The schools of medicine and dentistry implemented the Head, Ears, Nose, Oral health, Throat (HENOT) and Cranial Nerve (CN) Interprofessional Education (IPE) Activity with the aim to assess medical and dental student perceptions of the effectiveness of an IPE experience and attitudes toward integrating oral and cranial nerve examinations into the…