Amy
Blue,
PhD
University of Florida
FL,
United States
Amy Blue, PhD is the Associate Vice President for Interprofessional Education at the University of Florida. She has been involved in interprofessional education (IPE) since 2007, and prior to that, was involved in medical education for many years. Dr. Blue has presented at numerous professional conferences and has published extensively in the IPE and medical education literature. She is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Interprofessional Care, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice. She was a co-founder of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) and has served as Chair of the organization.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
This interactive workshop uses the "Wise Crowds" method to help leaders in IPE and collaborative practice address real-world challenges through peer-driven problem-solving. Participants will share leadership dilemmas, receive actionable feedback, and collaboratively generate solutions. Leaders across settings will engage, network, and gain practical strategies to advance their efforts.
This study examined OT student learning outcomes from an introductory longitudinal community-based IPE experience with other health professions learners and community volunteers. Results indicated students practiced several specific teamwork skills throughout the experience, and recognized how interprofessional teamwork and client-centered care will be skills to use in the future.
Health systems science (HSS) is the study of how health care is delivered. “Teaming,” a domain of HSS, recognizes the need for interprofessional teamwork. This workshop provides participants with knowledge about HSS and how to integrate its concepts into interprofessional education to support health professions learners’ to become “systems citizens.”
Digital health, including AI, wearables, electronic health records, and telehealth, has revolutionized healthcare. Interprofessional, digital health literacy is needed for cohesive, patient-centered care. This interactive session equips educators to integrate digital health literacy into interprofessional education programming and will culminate in the development of action plans for curricular enhancements.
Interprofessional collaboration between human, animal, plant, and environmental health is needed to best address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its stewardship. We presented a six session AMR interprofessional education extra-curricular activity to promote interprofessional learning for health professions and graduate studies students in this important topic.
Recently, the National Academy of Medicine established an Opioid Action Collaborative. We participated this year to enhance an existing interprofessional education activity with content about stigma reduction and patient/family member lived experiences. Our activity includes prescribing and non-prescribing, human and animal health care learners, broadening their interprofessional collaboration knowledge.
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.