Barbara
Maxwell,
PhD, DPT, MSc, CertTHE, FNAP
Indiana University
IN,
United States
Dr. Barbara Maxwell, OPhd, DPT, MSc, Cert THE, FNAP is the Associate Dean & Executive Director of the Interprofessional Practice and Education Center at Indiana University, and an Associate Dean & Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the IU School of Medicine.
She has been active in Interprofessional practice and education nationally and internationally since the late 1980’s working in the US, Europe, and Asia.
She is the US representative to Interprofessional.Global: The Global Confederation for Interprofessional Practice and Education. She is also a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, and was awarded the Nicholas A Cummings Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Interprofessional Healthcare in 2021. She is an Advisory Board member of The Network Towards Unity for Health and a member of InterprofessionalResearch.Global.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
This workshop, hosted by IPR.Global, focuses on advancing knowledge and research in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP). Participants will explore the role of theory in research, engage in hands-on exercises in mixed-method research, and collaborate on strategies to evaluate IPECP outcomes, contributing to improved health, care, and equity outcomes globally.
A panel of IPE experts from six institutions will engage participants in a workshop about best practices, challenges, and solutions related to IPE assessment. Areas of emphasis will include scaling IPE assessments, adapting assessments/matching assessment modality to varied levels of learners, and IPE assessment considerations that span an IPE curriculum.
If we are expecting learners to engage in specific interprofessional behaviors, the attitudes they hold towards those behaviors are critical. The psychological literature on behavior change identifies attitudes as a precursor to behavior change. Individuals need to have an attitude that specific behaviors matter if they are to develop an intent to engage in these behaviors. Therefore, without an attitude that interprofessional work matters, it is unlikely that learners will engage in the intended collaborative behaviors in the workplace. This presentation describes the specific application of the Theory of Planned Behavior to the design and evaluation of a longitudinal interprofessional core curriculum.
If you are involved in interprofessional learning in the education or practice setting, you are welcome to join this interactive workshop. You will learn how to transition a traditional content focused interprofessional curriculum to a truly competency-based curriculum, using your own national competencies. Aligning and using evidence-based theories and models to shape curricular design, delivery and evaluation. This is a hands-on participatory workshop where you will have the opportunity to compare traditional and competency-based curricular models, identify the essential components of a competency-based interprofessional curriculum, and start your own build through formulating draft competency trajectories for your learners.