Interprofessional Education

REDEfine what’s possible in HEALThCARE

What is interprofessional education?

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.

World Health Organization. (2010).

Framework for action on interprofessional education & collaborative practice. Geneva: World Health Organization.

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.

What are IPE core competencies?

1. Values and Ethics

Work with team members to maintain a climate of team values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.

2. Roles and Responsibilities

Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual population health outcomes.

3. Communication

Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.

4. Teams and Teamwork

Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one’s own role in a variety of team settings.

IPE Resources

Leadership

Heidi Cheerman

PT, DPT, MS, NCS

Assistant Clinical Professor; Assistant Dean for Interprofessional Education Physical Therapy, Human Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences

Wendy Georgan

PhD, CCC-SLP

Assistant Clinical Professor; School Lead, Interprofessional Eduation Communication Sciences and Disorders

Amy Helburn

PhD, MPH

Associate Teaching Professor; School Lead, Interprofessional Education Public Health and Health Sciences

Dawn Swain

PharmD

Assistant Clinical Professor; School Lead, Interprofessional Education Pharmacy and Health Systems Science

Stephen P. Wood

MS, ACNP

Visiting Associate Clinical Professor; Program Director, Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program; School Lead, Interprofessional Education Nursing