Heidi Cheerman
PT, DPT, MS, NCS
Assistant Clinical Professor; Assistant Dean for Interprofessional Education Physical Therapy, Human Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences
REDEfine what’s possible in HEALThCARE
Interprofessional education occurs when students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. Once students understand how to work interprofessionally, they are ready to enter the workplace as a member of the collaborative practice team. This is a key step in moving health systems from fragmentation to a position of strength.
At Bouvé, Health profession students have the opportunity throughout their coursework to learn on an interdisciplinary collaborative team with a diverse group of individuals. Students experience interdisciplinary education (IPE) through case-based application, a state-of-the-art Simulation Center with case scenarios, team rounding on complex cases, health humanities, community engagement, and real-world hands-on practice with our clinical partners.
Our IPE content focuses on students, faculty, and practicing clinicians confronting health inequities and social injustice. Our students learn how social determinants of health, implicit bias, circuits of power, structures in health policy and law, and institutional policies and practices impact clinical decision making, patient outcomes, and population health.
Work with team members to maintain a climate of team values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.
Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual population health outcomes.
Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one’s own role in a variety of team settings.
American Interprofessional Health Collaborative
Association of Interprofessional Heathcare Students (AIHS)
Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education
Coordinating Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative
IOM Workshop Summary — Interprofessional Education for Collaboration: Learning How to Improve Health from Interprofessional Models across the Continuum of Education to Practice
National Academies of Medicine Division of Health and Medicine
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
WHO’s Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Bouvé College of Health Science
Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research
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PT, DPT, MS, NCS
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