Background: The Duke Interprofessional Education (IPE) Experience allows multiple pre-licensure professional programs, including MD, PA, DPT, BSN, and NP, to provide team based care to patients in the emergency department (ED) during weekday evenings. All care is provided with direct MD faculty supervision. Registered nurse (RN) faculty help facilitate patient care, supervise their program’s students, and educate all students in clinic (not just nursing students). Like all clinical…

Background: Excessive amounts of money in healthcare are wasted due to duplicated or unnecessary health screenings. For example, an estimated four million dollars was spent on wasteful or likely wasteful imaging for low back pain, a commonly treated condition within healthcare. 2 Research shows that two-thirds of people will present with low back pain at some point throughout their lifetime, but 20-50% of high-tech imaging procedures fail to provide information that improves the patient’s…

Background This project integrates museum-based sessions into a community-based, interprofessional education program for health professions students. Teams of students work with individuals who have complex health and social needs to provide care coordination and supportive community-based, person-centered interventions. Students learn to work collaboratively to identify and address social, behavioral and structural barriers to health while developing IPEC competencies.   …

Background: Teamwork is critical for improved health outcomes during a crisis, like a virus outbreak. Individual team members need to be aware of their personal values and the guiding principles associated with high performance teamwork. The purpose of this activity was to introduce students to the value of teamwork in interprofessional collaborative care for improving health outcomes during a crisis like a virus outbreak and to assess attitudes towards teams and teamwork for an IPE event…

Background: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE) is a University Center that was established in 2016 by, and since then supported by the University Health Sciences Leadership Council (the UW Provost Office, and the Deans of the four health sciences schools - School of Medicine and Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy and School of Veterinary Medicine). Design: The UW CIPE established its first 5-year Strategic…

Background: Longer lifespans and growing chronic conditions are driving necessary change in healthcare systems. There is an increasing shift towards integrated care, to provide person-centred care that is accessible, continuous, and high quality. New models of care require new models of learning �" from a focus on workforce planning for professionals to workforce planning for patients and populations. The World Health Organization acknowledges that preparation of healthcare professionals has…

BACKGROUND- Interprofessional Education (IPE) is an integral curriculum component at Mercy College of Ohio to prepare graduates for interprofessional collaborative practice. Students experience the Mercy Difference through team-based education grounded in ethics, aimed at transforming healthcare by improving the quality and safety of patient centered care. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, hands-on IPE curriculum was transformed into virtual models. The aim of this project is to evaluate an…