Sessions

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.

IPE research should answer meaningful questions and utilize appropriate research designs and conceptual framing. The purpose of this session is to bring novice educational researchers to the next level based on individualized goals. Participants will build on their IPE research question of interest in a participatory workshop with research mentors that leads to a plan of action for each participant.

The Michigan Center for IPE applied Kotter’s Change Theory to engage our health system leaders in collaborating to improve interprofessional teamwork. This session presents our approach, including tactics and lessons learned. Participants will apply the model to their change efforts and draft a “change blueprint” to implement at their institution.

Unleash your creativity in this dynamic IPCP challenge! Join with diverse healthcare professionals to craft collaborative solutions for diabetes care. Pitch innovative solutions to industry leaders in a thrilling Shark Tank ® style showdown. Gain invaluable skills and insights while transforming IPE, patient outcomes, and healthcare systems in this immersive experience!

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.

Strategic planning is crucial for new and existing offices of interprofessional education and practice, guiding alignment with institutional goals, optimizing resource allocation, and fostering collaboration. This workshop will guide new and established offices in a strategic planning process, offering lessons learned and next steps from Kotter’s model for leading change.

This hands-on workshop will introduce the US National Center for Interprofessional Practice Education Highest Possible Future tool. This tool supports academic/practice/community partnerships to explore and articulate their shared values, vision, and aspirational goals to achieve interprofessional health and learning outcomes for the individuals and communities they serve.

As service learning programs expand, it is critical to center these efforts around building trusting relationships with community partners. Our session will offer 3 examples of service learning programs centering psychological safety and relationships, with opportunities for participants to apply new insights/skills to their contexts maximizing collaborative teamwork and engagement.

This workshop engages participants in how to build interactive exposure activities for students new to IPE that integrate contemporary social issues with interprofessional sub-competencies, provide data for scaffolding future IPE phases, connect the dots between education and practice, and meet the curricular and accreditation needs of health professions programs.

We will explore three potential contributions to interprofessional education: management reasoning, collective competence, and critically reflective practice. These concepts can help prepare future graduates for the complexity of working in increasingly pressured contexts. Through facilitated discussion, participants will consider how these ideas can be incorporated into their educational practices.