Empowering Faculty to Facilitate Rapidly Forming Learner Teams in IPE: Practical Approaches and Strategies
- Collaborative Leadership and Shared Responsibility in Interprofessional Teams
This 90-minute workshop combines Texas IPE Consortium's Rapid Teaming and IPE Facilitator Certificate courses, providing practitioners strategies for facilitating rapid team formation in educational settings. As healthcare education emphasizes quick collaboration, these courses offer comprehensive team development approaches.
The Rapid Teaming course teaches strategies for leading fast-forming healthcare teams. Faculty learn emotional intelligence, team diagnostics, and science principles to develop shared mental models and fluid team adaptation. These skills are crucial when teams must assemble quickly and adapt to evolving demands.
The IPE Facilitator course equips faculty to foster interprofessional collaboration, teaching cross-professional communication and team dynamics management. Participants learn to engage diverse student teams in collaborative activities, regardless of prior experience.
Assessment data from pre-post surveys shows significant improvement in learner self-efficacy, highlighting enhanced confidence, practical application, and strong participant advocacy.Session outline with active learning strategies: Outline of the 90-minute workshop:
1. Introduction and Overview - Set the stage for the workshop, introduce facilitators, and outline session goals.
2. Exploring Rapid Teaming Principles - Case-based team diagnostic exercise. Participants evaluate a simulated scenario and identify team dynamics, strengths, and challenges.
3. Applying IPE Facilitator Skills - Role-play exercise where participants practice facilitating a brief IPE scenario involving a diverse learner team.
4. Integrating Strategies from Both Courses - Participants work in small groups to design an activity or simulation that incorporates both Rapid Teaming principles and IPE facilitation techniques.
5. Reflection, Q&A, and Practical Takeaways - Checklist of Rapid Teaming and IPE Facilitation strategies.
Learning Objectives
- Apply strategies from the Rapid Teaming and IPE Facilitator Certificate courses to facilitate rapidly forming learner teams in diverse educational settings.
- Utilize emotional intelligence and team diagnostics to assess and adapt to team dynamics in both didactic and experiential IPE environments.
- Develop approaches to foster effective interprofessional communication and collaboration across diverse student teams, enhancing the achievement of IPEC Core Competencies.
References
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