Listen as our esteemed guest Dr. Maria Wamsley@MariaWamsley discusses the tips and tricks of successful interprofessional teaching! We talk through values and challenges of interprofessional teaching. Dr Wamsley provides practical details for getting an interprofessional teaching experience off the ground or expanding it at your institution.
Hosts/Producer/Writer: Era Kryzhanovskaya MD / Molly Heublein MD
Audio Editor: Clair Morgan of Nodderly
Show notes/Cover art/Infographics: Charlotte Chaiklin MD
Guest: Maria Wamsley MD
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Show Segments
Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
Guest one-liner
Guest book recommendation
Guest area of growth
Guest best piece of advice
Clinical case
History of interprofessional education (IPE)/interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP)
How to overcome barriers to interprofessional education
Examples of interprofessional education
Resources for faculty development
Dr. Wamsley’s dream interprofessional education experience
Take home points
Outro
Interprofessional Teaching Pearls
Interprofessional teaching requires meaningful interaction amongst learners and should not be taught in a didactics format.
Interprofessional teaching should focus around the four core competencies: values and ethics for interprofessional practice, interprofessional communication, roles and responsibilities, and teams and teamwork.
To develop an interprofessional education curriculum, start small, find allies, and adapt curricula that have already been developed.
Interprofessional education improves patient safety, improves students’ knowledge around collaborative care, and improves students’ skills and attitudes towards team based care.
Interprofessional Education Notes
The History of Interprofessional Education (IPE) or Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP)
The World Health Organization states interprofessional education occurs when members of two or more professions come together to learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration skills and patient outcomes (World Health Organization).
You cannot have interprofessional education without collaborative practice. Similarly, you cannot have collaborative practice without interprofessional education. The two are intertwined.
Interprofessional education was previously termed interdisciplinary care. In the 1960s and 1970s, interdisciplinary care was discussed as a way to address workforce issues or population health.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the modern movement of interprofessional education and collaborative practices emerged from a focus on patient safety. This modern movement evolved as a way to improve collaboration skills and patient outcomes, particularly in regards to patient safety.
In 2011, a group of leaders from different healthcare professions came together to establish collaborative care competencies that all healthcare professional learners should have called the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Core Competencies (IPEC Core Competencies).
IPEC Core Competencies
Core Competencies are divided into four different domains:
Values and ethics for interprofessional practice
Mutual respect and shared values
Interprofessional communication
Skillset to effectively communicate across professions
Roles and responsibilities
Not only knowing what your own role is but knowing the roles and responsibilities of other health professionals
Teams and teamwork
Having some knowledge about the processes and development of teams
Dr. Wamsley’s advice for interprofessional curriculum development:
Determine learning objectives for the experience, specifically, the interprofessional learning objectives and how they link to the IPEC core competencies.
Start small. Enhance the interprofessional learning that is already happening, build off curriculum that has already been developed
Interprofessional education (IPE) is teaching with, from, and about.
Didactic strategies do not work well for IPE content.
There must be meaningful interaction amongst learners.
Approaches for Successful Interprofessional Education
Small groups working together on an interactive case
Simulation
In the clinical settings (for example, during interprofessional case conferences, interprofessional rounds, team meetings, etc.)
Give time for learner self-reflection (for example, what have you learned?)
Give time for feedback between team members (van Diggel 2021)
How to Overcome Barriers to Interprofessional Education
Logistics with scheduling all healthcare professions learners at the same time
Involve your admin and the admin of other healthcare professions
Finding the time in curriculum to prioritize IPE
Emphasize the accreditation requirement for interprofessional education
Focus on the IPEC core competencies
Physical space in the clinical setting
Instead of expanding the learning group try to enhance the interprofessional education that is already occurring in your clinical space
Faculty development to make familiar with content and concepts of IPE
See faculty development resources below
Obtaining leadership buy in
Engage learners, find allies, and emphasize accreditation requirement for interprofessional education
A Few Examples of Interprofessional Education
Students of multiple health professions (dentistry, pharmacy, medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing, etc.) come together to form small groups
Focus on foundational skills and interprofessional collaboration (communication tools, roles, responsibilities, and scope of practice, conflict management, etc.)
In facilitated small groups, learners utilize their newly obtained skills
Interprofessional standardized patient exercises
Small groups of health professional students approach a simulated case
All learners get feedback not only from the standardized patient but also from their fellow health professional students
In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth activities
Having groups of medical students, pharmacy students, etc. conducting joint telehealth visits with high risk patients (Bautista 2021)
Benefits of Interprofessional Education
Improves patient safety
Improves students’ knowledge around collaborative care (Saxe 2017)
Improves students’ skills and attitudes towards team based care (Ruebling, Irma, et al.)
Growing evidence that IPE can change behaviors of healthcare professionals
Listeners will explain the benefits of interprofessional education and ways to provide effective interprofessional teaching to improve the practice of healthcare professionals.
Learning objectives
After listening to this episode listeners will…
List the benefits of interprofessional education
Be familiar with the four core competencies of interprofessional education
Recognize ways to overcome barriers to interprofessional education
Disclosures
Dr. Maria Wamsley reports no relevant financial disclosures. The Curbsiders report no relevant financial disclosures.
Citation
Wamsley M, Heublein M, Kryzhanovskaya E. “#15 Interprofessional Teaching. The Curbsiders Teach Podcast. http://thecurbsiders.com/teach, August 23, 2022.
CME Partner
The Curbsiders are partnering with VCU Health Continuing Education to offer FREE continuing education credits for physicians and other healthcare professionals. Visit curbsiders.vcuhealth.org and search for this episode to claim credit.
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