JCIPE to Host Fourth Biennial Conference on Interprofessional Education and Care

The Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE) will host its’ fourth biennial conference on interprofessional education and care from Friday, October 10th through Sunday, October 12th. Entitled “Interprofessional Care for the 21st Century: Redefining Education and Practice,” the conference will bring individuals involved in interprofessional education and care together to share ideas, innovative programs and the latest research to help advance interprofessional approaches to education and care (IPE/C) across the country

From the Editors

Welcome to the Spring 2014 edition of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE) newsletter. In this edition of our newsletter, you will have a chance to read about two new innovations in technology designed to enhance interprofessional education and collaborative practice. We believe that integrating technology into IPE will be central to aligning health care education reforms with changes in healthcare delivery. This Spring also marks the graduation of our 6th cohort of JHMP students at TJU. Now, over 4,100 students have completed this longitudinal IPE curriculum; feedback from graduates has been highly positive, detailing the impact of IPE experiences in better preparing them for teamwork as well as providing them with an unexpected advantage in employment opportunities, where competency as an effective team player is highly valued by employers

Download entire issue- Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter, Spring, 2014, Volume 5, Issue 1

Download entire issue- Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter, Spring, 2014, Volume 5, Issue

Using Technology to Enhance Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: Creating Virtual Clinical Opportunities by Implementing Google Doc and Google Hangout in Clinical Rounding

The delivery of quality care is best done by a group of practitioners who can effectively communicate and utilize the ‘team decision making approach’ to solve patient/client/person care issues. Organizations such as the WHO advise us that “after almost 50 years of inquiry, there is now sufficient evidence to indicate that interprofessional education enables effective collaborative practice which in turn optimizes health-services, strengthens health systems and improves health outcomes” (2010, p18). The need to implement interprofessional team based approaches to patient care is important. What is also essential is the need to provide interprofessional learning opportunities for today’s health care student who will be practicing in teams in an ever changing health care delivery system of tomorrow. Currently the majority of interprofessional activities that students are exposed to are in didactic settings. Although most health professionals spend more than half of their education in a clinical setting, very little opportunity [predominately because of logistics] exists for students to develop interprofessional skills in clinical practice. Thomas Jefferson University is not immune to this challenge. While we have been successful in bringing medical and nursing students together to engage in clinical rounding, we have not been able to engage many of the other members of the health care team because they are simply not physically on the clinical unit