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This innovative, customizable clinical rotation model immerses healthcare learners in experiential interprofessional education, involving collaboration with diverse professionals in nursing, dentistry, audiology, speech-language pathology, and medicine. Using a validated assessment tool and reflective practices, the program develops essential team-based care skills, bridging gaps in pre-licensure training and advancing patient-centered outcomes.

Food insecurity among healthcare students impacts mental health, educational outcomes, and interprofessional socialization. This presentation explores sustainable food banks as a potential solution, using Maslow’s hierarchy and Gruppen’s learning environment framework to assess the effects on food security, loneliness, and interprofessional learning environments to promote student well-being and success.

This presentation discusses how health professions students assessed fall risk among older adults in assisted living facilities. Interprofessional student teams developed care plans with the aim of enhancing patient safety. The initiative improved student competencies, fostered collaboration, and provided actionable recommendations to mitigate fall risk, benefiting both students and residents.

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers interprofessional education new tools for students’ learning. This project demonstrated the effective use of a patient chatbot in an online learning environment to promote health professions students’ appreciation of interprofessional collaboration skills and learning about complex patients.

The Dashfolio is an innovative digital platform for interprofessional education (IPE), tracking student performance across competencies like communication and teamwork while supporting faculty development. It integrates analytics, reflective tools, and program evaluation features to enhance learning, teaching, and curriculum improvement, fostering collaboration and advancing healthcare education outcomes.