The Office of Interprofessional Collaborative Education and Teamwork (ICE-T) at Penn State College of Medicine offers a variety of programs to support faculty and staff facilitators involved in interprofessional education.
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Interprofessional Education Resources for Faculty
Whether new to academic medicine or an experienced clinicians, all faculty and staff benefit from some faculty development before leading an interprofessional education activity. In these events, the Office of Interprofessional Collaborative Education and Teamwork (ICE-T) strives to create an environment where respect is demonstrated at all times. Establishing a safe space starts with the facilitator.
To support faculty and staff facilitators, ICE-T offers a number of different opportunities, depending on the activity that will be facilitated.
Monthly Events
In monthly events, the ICE-T team provides access to case materials and online video modules explaining the use of the assessment rubric for new facilitators.
Annual Events
Annual events include a one-hour training the week before an interprofessional education (IPE) activity. This training is recorded and posted on Mediasite for those unable to attend.
For example, facilitator training for the fall event introduces IPE competencies to facilitators and outlines the activities and expectations for students, as well as the responsibilities of the facilitator.
In addition, faculty and staff view video modules to help further facilitation skills by showing examples of both incorrect and ideal facilitation. A variety of questioning styles are presented as examples.
This training also uses video modules to demonstrate desirable and undesirable interprofessional behaviors on the part of students, which provides faculty with opportunities to practice applying the assessment procedures and providing feedback to learners.
Simulation IPE
Facilitator training for the Simulation IPE begins with a hands-on team activity on IPE competencies, followed by an overview of what facilitators should expect from the students during the simulation.
The Simulation Center staff use interactive methods to demonstrate creative ways to ask insightful questions and debrief learners, which faculty/staff participants practice.
Train-the-Trainer Workshop
The main facilitator training opportunity offered at Penn State College of Medicine is “Getting Started: An Interprofessional Education/Practice Workshop for Health Care Educators and Providers.” This two-day workshop provides tools for participants who wish to design and implement their own interprofessional education project.
When applying to attend the workshop, participants must submit a project proposal as a team with other interprofessional partners. Participants are encouraged to attend the workshop as a team.
At the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Describe IPE theory, tenets, activities and assessments across the learning continuum (from academia to practice).
- Champion cultural changes within educational and health systems.
- Initiate plans to lead and sustain meaningful IPE and collaborative practice.
- Apply best practices for IPE activity development to a specified project plan.
Past participants have included nurses, physicians, attorneys, psychologists, pharmacologists and educators.
Sessions offered at past Getting Started events include:
- Basic Principles of Adult Education
- Core Concepts of IPE: Communication
- Core Concepts of IPE: Roles and Responsibilities
- Core Concepts of IPE: Teamwork
- Core Concepts of IPE: Values and Ethics
- Debriefing
- Evidence for Faculty Development in IPE
- Evidence to Support IPE
- Exemplar of Interprofessional Practice
- Integrative Objectives
- Kotter’s Eight Steps to Change
- Outcomes/Assessment/Evaluation
- Project Planning Format
The Interprofessional Education Incentive Award provides an opportunity for Penn State and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to enhance patient care experiences by developing and implementing new initiatives that bring learners from different disciplines together to work and learn collaboratively.
Funds are for projects of one year in duration. Applicants must agree to submit an interim and final progress report for their project, present a poster at EdVenture and contribute a project template to the “IPE toolbox” to disseminate their activity and outcomes to others.
The next call for award will be issued in 2019.
All Together Better Health
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Learn more about All Together Better Health
Collaborating Across Borders
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Learn more about Collaborating Across Borders
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Nexus Summit
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Train-the-Trainer
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American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC)
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Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE)
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Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education
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Learn more about the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education
National Center for Interprofessional Education
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University of Kansas Center for Interprofessional Education
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