April
Newton,
PT, DPT, PhD, FNAP
Indiana University
IN,
United States
Dr. April D. Newton is the Director of Interprofessional Practice Development at the Indiana University Interprofessional Practice and Education Center and assistant professor of clinical family medicine in the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Newton’s roles include developing and integrating interprofessional education and collaborative practice curricula, leading collaborative care clinics at the IU Health Primary Care - Indianapolis Clinic and precepting/educating students at the Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic. She is a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice and a member of the American Interprofessional Healthcare Collaborative (AIHC).
Presenting at CAB 2025:
This interactive workshop introduces how an IPE Center team and Area Health Education Centers’ (AHEC) directors led efforts to deliver Breaking the Cycle of Addiction: A Collaborative Recovery Experience where learners, local agency representatives, and community partners interacted to learn “about, from, and with” each other. Attendees will leave the workshop with a draft plan to create a program related to a public health concern or curricular gap topic.
If you are involved in interprofessional learning in the education or practice setting, you are welcome to join this interactive workshop. You will learn how to transition a traditional content focused interprofessional curriculum to a truly competency-based curriculum, using your own national competencies. Aligning and using evidence-based theories and models to shape curricular design, delivery and evaluation. This is a hands-on participatory workshop where you will have the opportunity to compare traditional and competency-based curricular models, identify the essential components of a competency-based interprofessional curriculum, and start your own build through formulating draft competency trajectories for your learners.
This workshop about a team-based care clinic, Buprenorphine Clinic, for individuals with substance use disorder provides discussions regarding the practice of psychological safety and understanding that trust and harm reduction build a bridge to recovery. The workshop will touch on three of the five aims in the Quintuple Aim. It addresses patient experience by building trust with patients in recovery in a safe space, discusses population health with the use of buprenorphine as a harm reduction strategy, and focuses on improving the wellness of the healthcare team through the implementation of psychological safety.