Interprofessional Education

Collaboration in Health Care: The Journey of an Accidental Expert?
TEDxCreightonU, Joy Doll

Joy Doll, the executive director of the Center for Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research at Creighton University, discusses how Creighton is using a team-based approach to care by drawing on the knowledge of diverse health care professionals. Creighton is one of the first in the nation to provide interprofessional education.

Core Interprofessional eLearning Modules

Using a case-based approach, this resource offers multiple modules about interprofessional team-based care and collaborative practice.

Interprofessional Education Collaborative Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPEC)

Describes the core competencies and explains their integration in health professions education.

Webinar Archive
Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)

This collection of webinars from the Interprofessional Education Collaborative provides information on topics ranging from teaching IPE during Covid-19, implementing IPE, and applying IPE for better health outcomes.

Top ten best practices for interprofessional precepting
Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. 2018 March; 10: 56-60

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Interprofessional precepting requires a unique skillset. Explore these top ten best practices designed to support interprofessional education experiences.

Author(s): Sarah Shradera, Jana Zaudkeb

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Why Interprofessional Education Matters?
University of New England

Patients, family medicine physicians, health professions faculty, and students discuss why Interprofessional Education matters in healthcare and how it positively transforms how healthcare is delivered.

Center for Interprofessional Education (CIPE)

The UW-Madison center transforming practice through interprofessional education for students.

Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP)

The UW-Madison website to find opportunities for continuing education.

National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (NEXUS)

Website whose mission is to: “support evaluation, research, data and evidence that ignites the field of interprofessional practice and education and leads to better care, added value and healthier communities.” The resources are free, but you will need to create a login.

MedEdPORTAL Interprofessional Education Collection
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Collection is designed to foster the identification, development and deployment of educational resources aimed at supporting team-based or collaborative care essential to training an interprofessional workforce.

Preceptors in the Nexus Toolkit
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

This toolkit is designed to help healthcare preceptors support interprofessional education and practice to improve patient care and learner experience. This toolkit includes web-based modules, active-learning materials and facilitator guides for face-to-face workshops, and IPE education and collaborative practice materials.

Faculty Development IPE Training Toolkit
University of Washington, Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education Reasearch and Practice

Engage educators in learning IPE competencies and instructional methods to achieve competency-based learning objectives.

Guide to Effective Interprofessional Education Experiences in Nursing Education

This toolkit was created specifically for nursing professionals and includes information on creating a culture of collaboration, interprofessional education activities, and strategies for implementing and evaluating evidence-based teaching practices.

InterProfessional Education Collaborative Podcast
University of New England

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NEXUSIPE Resource Center

The NEXUSIPE Resource Center is a digital library of interprofessional practice and education-related content. Be sure to click “Browse” to filter or search through it’s resources.

Texas Tech Preceptor Mini-Series

This mini-series provides authentic context and uses diversity of content and expert advice to provide preceptor training in interprofessional education. Choose from series such as “Change of Heart: An Interprofessional Mini-Series” and “Adventure in Interprofessional Precepting”.

ATHCT: Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

The Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams scale (ATHCT) was developed as a pre- and post- measure of attitudes toward health care teams among team members and/or trainees and their supervisors in clinically based team training programs.

The ATHCT is often used in conjunction with the Team Skills Scale (TSS).

Tool:

• Adapted IHCT scale (from Curran.ATHCT).docx

Interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric (ICAR)
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

The ICAR is a competency-based assessment rubric designed for health and social care students and providers. As a formative assessment, ICAR provides learners with constructive feedback on competency areas for further development. As a summative assessment, ICAR may be used to assess learners’ achievement.

Tool:

• Curran, ICAR, instrument.pdf

Individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (iTOFT)
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

The iTOFT is a work-based assessment tool of interprofessional teamwork behaviors. There are two versions included: the Basic iTOFT for students with little clinical teamwork experience, and the Advanced version for senior students and junior health professionals.

Tool:

• Thistlethwaite, iTOFTs, 2015.pdf

Advancing Assessment and Evaluation
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

Follow this guide to learn IPE best practices in assessment and evaluation.

Measurement Tool Collection
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

Find measurement tools to assess individual learners, groups, teams, practice environments, and organizations among others. The measurement tool collection features a search feature (center) and filter tool (lefthand side) so you can narrow results based on what you are trying to assess.

RIPLS: Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

The Readiness for Interprofessional Scale is designed to assess the readiness of health care students for interprofessional education. RIPLS measures a change in attitudes, the effect of different interventions, and the effectiveness of interventions on changing perceptions and attitudes.

Tool:

• RIPLS Terms of Use.pdf
• Readiness for Interprofessional Learning (RIPLS).pdf
• Adapted.Tool.Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS).pdf

Team Skills Scale (TSS)
National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

The Team Skills Scale (TSS) measures three factors of perceived interprofessional team skills: interpersonal skills, discipline-specific skills, and geriatric care skills.

The TSS is often used in conjunction with the Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale (ATHCT).

Tool:

Tool A_IPCLE Team Assessment Instruments July 2011.doc

Interprofessional Preceptor Training
University of Washington, Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education Reasearch and Practice

This collection of online modules covers the fundamentals of teaching in a clinical setting, and provides guidance for introducing students to interprofessional, team-based practice.

IPE Facilitation Training Toolkit
University of Washington, Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education Reasearch and Practice

Train educators to facilitate student IPE and/or train other educators.

Debriefing the Interprofessional Team in Medical Simulation

Although the high technology simulators and complex scenarios of SBT tend to focus more attention on its technology, methodology, and curricular components, the ultimate utility of SBT as an educational format relies on the effectiveness of the debriefing rendered during a session. Learn more about debriefing the interprofessional team in medical simulation.

Debriefing Interprofessionally: A Tool for Recognition and Reflection

As the health care environment increases in complexity and patient acuity rises, health profession graduates need to be prepared to work collaboratively to improve patient outcomes. The interprofessional debriefing tool (Debriefing Interprofessionally: Recognition & Reflection) presented in this article allows any simulation to be transformed into an interprofessional learning opportunity.

Does a Written Tool to Guide Structured Debriefing Improve Discourse? Implications for Interprofessional Team Simulation

Learn how the introduction of a written tool to help facilitate high-quality debriefing techniques could improve the ratio of judgmental, nonjudgmental, and good judgment statements from facilitators, as well as shift the percentage of talk in the debrief away from directive performance feedback and toward self-assessment and focused facilitation.

General Interprofessional Debriefing Questions

This guide contains debriefing questions to guide learners and preceptors through reflection after an interprofessional education experience.

Interprofessional CPR Team Behavior Simulations: Facilitating and Debriefing

The Interprofessional Education & Practice (IPEP) CPR Team Behavior Simulations are intensive hour-long sessions training small groups of students from medicine, nursing and pharmacy to work as teams in a simulated health emergency. This video shows an interprofessional team in action followed by an in-depth debrief session.

Interprofessional team debriefings with or without an instructor after a simulated crisis scenario: An exploratory case study

The value of debriefing after an interprofessional simulated crisis is widely recognised; however, little is known about the content of debriefings and topics that prompt reflection. Discover topics that allowed learners to enter reflection.