Sessions

This pilot study explored the use of an AI chatbot as an alternative to standardized patients in an interprofessional palliative care simulation. Results revealed significant improvements in student self-efficacy, with insights on the benefits, limitations, and opportunities for optimizing chatbot-based learning as a tiered approach to enhance clinical communication skills.

This project tackles critical communication barriers in noisy operating rooms using AI-based solutions. By integrating wearable technology and centralized audio systems, it improves speech clarity, reduces cognitive strain, and enhances interprofessional collaboration, fostering safety, accessibility, and efficiency in surgical care while offering scalable solutions for broader clinical environments.

Development, implementation and evaluation of a 300 student multidisciplinary, multi university event will be shared. This event used a case study and escape room approach. The results showed high level engagement and met most outcomes planned. Improvements and other training suggestions will be offered.

In Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), interprofessional teamwork is essential for optimal patient care. This study explores the construct validity of the Interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric (ICAR) to assess and improve residents' interprofessional collaboration skills, ensuring effective leadership and participation in rehabilitation teams. The study validates the ICAR's construct validity, highlighting its potential for assessing interprofessional skills.

The IPE program has provided a generation of students with a strong basis of teamwork and communication skills that form a foundation for collaborative practice. The future will focus is on translation to collaborative practice skills in the clinical environment. The program's success highlights the importance of teamwork and communication in healthcare education.

Nearly 50% of Americans have chronic illness, a number that is expected to grow. This study explored lessons chronically ill individuals wish to teach healthcare students through an interprofessional program. Themes included person-centered care, communication, and patient experiences, highlighting the importance of patient inclusion in improving healthcare education and outcomes.

This IPE/IPC event aimed to raise falls awareness among underserved older adults, enhance student collaboration, and strengthen university-community ties. Twenty-five senior center participants attended a falls prevention presentation by healthcare students, followed by lunch. Feedback showed high satisfaction and increased knowledge, highlighting the value of IPE/IPC in public health.

The Emory Farmworker Project (EFP) is an interprofessional service-learning program at Emory University where health professional students provide care to migrant farmworkers in the fields. PA and MD students participated in focus groups about the interprofessional nature of EFP and the impact of community-based, practical IPE on their clinical learning.

Prehospital obstetrical or neonatal (OB/Neo) calls to emergency medical services (EMS) are more likely among patients of lower socioeconomic status and to result in an OB/Neo emergency. Paramedicine faculty have expressed the need for paramedic learners (PML) to increase confidence in these skills to promote health equity and improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes. Limited literature in use of simulation-based experiences (SBE) in prehospital settings have demonstrated improved confidence among EMS and the Zone of Simulation framework, indicates these scenarios fall into the high acuity-low occurrence quadrant, suggesting SBE may be advantageous over instruction. High-fidelity SBE improves confidence for learners in OB/Neo emergency situations.

The educational interventions available for learners in management of Methamphetamine Use Disorder (MUD) across healthcare disciplines is virtually nonexistent. Our lecture will highlight simulation-based learning exercises aimed at addressing learners in an interprofessional setting on various treatment strategies for acute and chronic presentations of MUD.