Allison
Shorten,
PhD, RN, FACM, FAAN
Professor and Department Chair/Director, Office of Interprofessional Curriculum
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Dr. Allison Shorten is the Director of the Office of Interprofessional Curriculum (OIPC) at UAB, and Professor in the School of Nursing. Dr. Shorten has over 25 years of experience as an educator and researcher in nursing and healthcare, and currently provides leadership in design, implementation and evaluation of interprofessional (IP) curriculum at UAB. She has expertise in the design and delivery of eLearning products, professional development programs, faculty training for promoting IP teamwork in healthcare, curriculum implementation strategies and evaluation techniques for IP education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Delivering IPE to large numbers of learners from multiple professions requires the participation of a large cohort of teachers in both the education and clinical settings. We will showcase and describe a model for implementing IPE across the institution by presenting our four step process, giving participants an opportunity to explore how strategies might be applied in their own institutions. Step 1 The Office of Interprofessional Curriculum (OIPC) teamed with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to develop a series of four workshops to give faculty tools and materials, related to the…
BackgroundEducation across health professions, rather than in silos, is essential to preparing future healthcare providers for team-based healthcare. A major challenge is how to involve distance learners in IP team activities. This poster documents progress and challenges encountered in engaging an interprofessional (IP) design team of students and faculty working in partnership, to develop an on-line IP Collaboratory course. DesignStudents, faculty and staff from six professions; medicine, public health, dentistry, occupational therapy, social work, and nursing, partnered with librarians…
BackgroundInterprofessional team-based training (IPTT) promotes positive attitudes towards working in IP teams and helps to create a “collaborative practice-ready” healthcare workforce. The challenge is to integrate IPTT learning experiences into university-wide clinical courses to cross all four IP collaborative competency sub-domains (IP values/ethics, recognition of roles and responsibilities, effective IP communication and teamwork) while also introducing participants to the concepts of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). DesignBuilding on earlier versions of our IPTT activity we…