Workshop

Using Implementation Science to Incorporate Competencies into Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

- CDT
Room: Prague
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Erin Abu-Rish Blakeney, PhD, RN
University of Washington
Alan Dow, MD, MSHA
Virginia Commonwealth University
Track:
  • Innovative Approaches to Interprofessional Pedagogy and Education Science
Fourteen years ago, the IPEC Core Competencies defined what a practitioner should be able to do to practice interprofessionally. While a growing number of interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) activities and interventions have demonstrated their ability to support effective teamwork, foster collaborative practice, and patient-centered health outcomes, we need to describe how these activities translate the IPE Core Competencies into career-long behaviors for practitioners. The field of implementation science is well-situated to help us make this leap. Implementation science is the “scientific study of methods and strategies that facilitate the uptake of evidence-based practice and research into regular use by practitioners and policymakers.” A frequent focus of implementation science studies is on identifying and addressing barriers that make implementation challenging and on creating conditions that facilitate uptake of an intervention—in this case interprofessional, collaborative practice—into practice.

In this workshop, we will provide an engaging, hands-on, and practical introduction to the field of implementation science and develop plans to use these principles to enhance and support the attendees’ IPE and IPCP work.Session outline with active learning strategies: 90-minute interactive workshop:

1) Welcome and setting the stage (5 mins)

2) Brief Introduction to Implementation Science (10 mins + 5 mins Q&A)

3) Table activity to identify barriers to and facilitators of attendees’ IPE & IPCP projects (10 mins)

4) Models, theories, and/or frameworks and implementation strategies in implementation science and an example of an ongoing interprofessional collaborative practice/implementation science project (15 mins + 5 mins Q&A)

5) Impromptu networking activity to facilitate connections among participants and identify questions and strategies for overcoming barriers and engaging facilitators (15 mins)

6) Large Group Discussion to discuss examples, learnings, questions and offer resources (15 mins)

7) Wrap-Up/Debrief (10 mins)

Learning Objectives

  • Define implementation science
  • Describe 3 ways in which implementation science can be used to support interprofessional education and collaborative practice
  • Identify resources for additional learning about implementation science to support the development and evaluation of interprofessionally competent practitioners.

References

  • 1) IPEC Core Competencies https://www.ipecollaborative.org/ipec-core-competencies (accessed December 16, 2024)
  • 2) Thistlethwaite, J., & Xyrichis, A. (2022). Forecasting interprofessional education and collaborative practice: towards a dystopian or utopian future? Journal of Interprofessional Care, 36(2), 165–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2022.2056696
  • 3) What is Implementation Science? – Implementation Science at UW https://impsciuw.org/implementation-science/learn/implementation-science-overview/ (accessed December 16, 2024).