Temple
Ratcliffe,
MD, FACP
Associate Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Temple A. Ratcliffe, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health San Antonio. He serves as both Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship and as the Long School of Medicine’s faculty representative on Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration, UT Health’s Quality Enhancement Plan dedicated to interprofessional education. His teaching has been recognized by numerous awards including the UT Presidential Teaching Excellence Award. He is also a Josiah Macy Foundation Faculty Scholar and inductee in the Gold Humanism Honor Society. His current scholarly areas of interest include interprofessional education, clinical reasoning, and learner assessment.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
BACKGROUND: The next generation of health care workers will require interprofessional education (IPE) to prepare for interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP). To date, IPE growth and development in the United States has been primarily preclinical. Leading organizations recognize, however, that IPE must move meaningfully into clinical learning environments to improve health outcomes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is dedicated to advancing IPE, including clinical IPE, as evidenced in the institution’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP),…
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio emphasizes interprofessional education (IPE) among our strategic educational priorities. This is exemplified by our Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) for institutional accreditation, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC) - created to cultivate IPE knowledge and skills of faculty, students, and staff and to integrate IPE activities into programs’ curricula with increasing opportunities for student IPE experiences.
Members of the LINC Faculty Council (the Council), one from each school (dentistry, graduate…
BACKGROUND: COVID-19-associated social distancing practices necessitated significantly altering a previously planned large-scale interprofessional education (IPE) activity for approximately 1000 students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. As a result, we developed and piloted an innovative, self-directed online learning experience emphasizing student engagement.
DESIGN: We partnered with the family of a child in the local community with complex health needs to develop two unique case studies telling their story while emphasizing the value of teamwork on…