Veronica
Young,
PharmD, MPH
The University of Texas at Austin
TX,
United States
Veronica Young, PharmD, MPH, FNAP is the Founding Director of The University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education where she leads institutional initiatives in education, practice, and scholarship that advance collaborative person-centered care and population health. Under her leadership, UT Austin is a founding member of the statewide Texas IPE Consortium and hosts the national T3 Train-the Trainer Interprofessional Team Development Program. Dr. Young is also Clinical Professor and Director of IPE and Community Engagement at the UT College of Pharmacy. Her research focuses on IPE and patient safety, with an emphasis on community engagement.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
This workshop, presented by the Texas IPE Consortium, equips faculty with strategies to facilitate rapidly forming learner teams in IPE settings. Drawing from the Rapid Teaming and IPE Facilitator Certificate courses, participants will gain practical tools to enhance team dynamics, communication, and collaboration in both didactic and experiential learning environments.
In a foundation interprofessional education course, 275 students from nursing, pharmacy, medicine, and social work collaborated in a community hackathon to address operational challenges faced by a student-run healthcare clinic. The event generated 187 innovative solutions, fostering interprofessional teamwork, community awareness, and real-world problem-solving, aligning with course values.
Integrating ecological systems theory and trauma-informed care into training offers a novel approach to prepare health professions students to address the complexities of health inequity. A 3-hour training was developed that incorporates these two frameworks and convenes students across nine professions to collaboratively address issues involved with access to care.
Team training utilizing TeamSTEPPS strategies is relevant to all health professions and should extend beyond acute care settings to enhance applicability. Participants will explore the use of different learning pedagogies to develop a team training that prepares diverse health professions to be collaboration-ready.