Faculty Development for Medical Educators

Interprofessional teamwork and collaborative practice are emerging as key elements of efficient and productive work in promoting health and treating patients. The vision for these collaborations is one where different health and/or social professionals share a team identity and work closely together to solve problems and improve delivery of care. Although the value of interprofessional education (IPE) has been embraced around the world - particularly for its impact on learning - many in leadership positions have questioned how IPE affects patent, population, and health system outcomes. This question cannot be fully answered without well-designed studies, and these studies cannot be conducted without an understanding of the methods and measurements needed to conduct such an analysis. This Institute of Medicine report examines ways to measure the impacts of IPE on collaborative practice and health and system outcomes. According to this report, it is possible to link the learning process with downstream person or population directed outcomes through thoughtful, well-designed studies of the association between IPE and collaborative behavior. Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes describes the research needed to strengthen the evidence base for IPE outcomes. Additionally, this report presents a conceptual model for evaluating IPE that could be adapted to particular settings in which it is applied. Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes addresses the current lack of broadly applicable measures of collaborative behavior and makes recommendations for resource commitments from interprofessional stakeholders, funders, and policy makers to advance the study of IPE.

Interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (IPCP) are the keys to improving health, safety, satisfaction and cost in the modern healthcare system. Interprofessional Education Toolkit: Practical Strategies for Program Design, Implementation, and Assessment provides healthcare educators, administrators, and clinicians with a practical, evidence-based manual for leading change. With these keys, we invite you to unlock meaningful collaboration for the next generation of health professionals, supported by an interprofessional collaboration of authors with more than 50 years of combined experience in education, practice, and scholarship in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, instructional design, simulation, and online education. Following a step-by-step approach with supporting resources and examples, this guide offers a structured method for successful interprofessional program design, implementation, and assessment. Readers will explore IPE through the context of accreditation standards, administrative leadership, stakeholder buy-in, faculty and professional development, scholarship, teaching and learning, and curriculum development. Ten toolkits give professionals and educators the resources they need to quickly start new IPE learning experiences. This book is the go-to manual to fully explore, successfully launch, and advance quality IPE that creates results. Key FeaturesPresents active learning strategies including team-based learning, case-based learning, simulation, and dilemma discussionsHighlights best practices for virtual and online IPE that help educators overcome major IPE barriers, especially accessibility, scalability and costOffers an abstract, key definitions, and concepts at the beginning of each chapter to set the reader's expectationsUtilizes illustrations and tables to help clarify and expand on key concepts, enabling readers to more easily understand and apply materialIncludes comprehensive appendices on available resources for IPE and IPCPProvides step-by-step checklists, tables and figures on how to build IPE using didactic, simulation, online, and experiential learning andragogiesExplores techniques to identify and reduce interdisciplinary biases, stereotypes, and prejudices, all barriers to dual professional identity and successful teamingToolkits to Quick Start IPE Learning Experiences Toolkit #1. SBAR Communication for IPE Toolkit #2. IPE Ethical Dilemma Discussion Toolkit #3. IPE for Dysphagia: Swallow Screen and Evaluation Toolkit #4. IPE for Provider Self-Compassion Toolkit #5. IPE in Senior Living Settings Toolkit #6. IPE for Palliative Care Toolkit #7. IPE in a Community Health Clinic Toolkit #8. IPE Stroke and Neuro Program Toolkit #9. IPE for Prosthetic Checkout: Amputation Evaluation and Rehabilitation Toolkit #10. IPE Student Organizations