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

A Qualitative Analysis of Student Understanding of Team Function Through the use of the Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide (JTOG)

Background: Several early IOM reports identified the need to educate medical and health professions students in delivering patient-centered care as members of interprofessional teams (IOM, 2001; IOM, 2003). Evidence shows that conducting interprofessional education during education and training prepares student learners for collaborative practice when they enter the workplace, which in turn helps to achieve the Triple Aim of 1) enhancing the patient experience; 2) improving the health of populations; and 3) decreasing costs (WHO, 2010; Berwick, et al., 2008). One way to prepare students for collaborative practice is to have them observe real teams in action. Thus, the Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide (JTOG) was created to serve as an educational tool in aiding students to better recognize the characteristics of effective teams. It has since been used to assess teams in the majority of clinical observation, simulation and collaborative practice activities offered by Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE). The JTOG is a two-part assessment comprised of identifiable characteristics of well-functioning teams drawn from the literature about teamwork. The first part consists of Likert Scale questions (strongly disagree to strongly agree) regarding the behavior of the interprofessional team observed in the domains of Values/Ethics in Interprofessional Practice, Roles/Responsibilities, Interprofessional Communication, Teams and Teamwork, and Leadership (IPEC, 2011; IPEC 2016). The second part includes qualitative questions relating to team-based care, patient-centered care, and teamwork

2014 JCIPE Conference

The internationally-renowned Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE) hosted a conference, Interprofessional Care for the 21st Century: Redefining Education and Practice, in Philadelphia on October 10-12, 2014. Conference presentations and posters have been loaded in the Jefferson Digital Commons

Strategic Plan: 2018 and Forward - Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education

Founded in 2007, the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE) is one of the premier interprofessional education centers in the U.S. Our center is dedicated to improving interprofessional care (IPC) through implementing and evaluating patient-centered education throughout the Thomas Jefferson University curriculum. We offer robust trainings and educational opportunities, provide innovative teaching models and evidence-based practices to help support emerging priorities in healthcare. To coincide with our 10-year anniversary and the transition to new leadership, we engaged the Jefferson Doctor of Management program in Strategic Leadership (DSL) to help us to reimagine and rethink our interests and needs in the increasingly complex and changing environment. With their facilitation we drew on the experience of more than 120 JCIPE stakeholders including co-directors, staff advisors, faculty, deans, student learners, community leaders, health mentors, and patients. We adopted a system-thinking framework and applied interactive design planning methodology to create the design for an ideal center for interprofessional care. From this prototype, we created our new strategic plan, business model, and roadmap. We believe our design experience and deep understanding of IPC will lead us to an even more prominent role as a model of excellence for interprofessional and professional practice and education

From the Editors

Welcome to the Fall 2014 edition of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter. It has been a busy Fall at Jefferson and we are excited to share several new developments which have been pushing the envelope in IPE. In October, we hosted our 4th biennial conference, Interprofessional Care for the 21st Century: Redefining Education and Practice. This year we had a record number of conference participants and presenters joining us from a variety of national and international academic and service organizations. Our keynote speakers, Dr. George Thibault, President, Josiah Macy Jr Foundation; Dr. Barbara Brandt, Director, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at the University of Minnesota; Dr. John Gilbert, Principal & Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia College of Health Disciplines, Co-Chair of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative; and a team from the Veterans Administration, including Dr. Malcolm Cox, Dr. Stuart Gilman, Dr. Richard Stark and Dr. Kathryn Rugen, collectively challenged and inspired us to re-conceptualize interprofessional education and collaborative practice opportunities for students as we prepare them for a healthcare delivery system that will focus on the triple aim of improving a patient’s care experience, improving the health of patient populations, and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare. One of the articles that follows will highlight the conference presentation of the innovative work of Dr. Susanne Boyle from the University of Glasgow, Scotland and her colleagues. Dr. Boyle’s team explored the area of augmented reality and its applicability to enhancing online interprofessional education through virtual communities

From the Editors

As the spring semester comes to a close, we in the Jefferson Center for InterProfessional Education (JCIPE) reflect on the last year. In the Fall 2014 edition of the Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter, we presented several innovative IPE projects from students, faculty and our colleagues overseas. The articles in this edition build on that progress, high-lighting our efforts, redefined during a January 2015 Jefferson IPE retreat facilitated by Dr. Malcolm Cox, to more closely link IPE and clinical practice. To this end, the spring semester marked the conclusion of the first administration of our revised Jefferson Health Mentors Program (JHMP) Module 4. During the new module, students select one Learning Activity from a menu of 13 offerings, including clinical observations, simulations and collaborative practice opportunities. They then reflect on their participation in their selected Learning Activity in light of their experience with their Health Mentor. Two student essays, one discussing our new, student-led IPE Grand Rounds program detailed in the Fall 2014 edition of the newsletter and the other describing a TeamSTEPPS® training, demonstrate the impact of such clinically-focused activities and their application in students’ training and lives

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

A New Age in Dementia Care: Turning Evidence into Practice

A New Age in Dementia Care: Turning Evidence into Practice Come celebrate the opening of the new Living Laboratory for Elder Care. September 17, 2008 7:30 am - 4:30 pm Thomas Jefferson University, Dorrance H. Hamilton Building 1001 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA 19107 Speakers Include: Christine Arenson, MD Associate Professor Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine Jefferson Medical College Director, Eastern-Pennsylvania Delaware Geriatric Education Center Co-Director Jefferson InterProfessional Education Center Thomas Jefferson University Louis D. Burgio, PhD Harold R. Johnson Endowed Chair in Gerontology, Professor of Social Work Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology School of Medicine Adjunct Professor School of Nursing and Department of Psychology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Janice P. Burke, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Dean, Jefferson School of Health Professions Chair and Professor Department of Occupational Therapy Co-Executive Director Living Laboratory for Elder Care Jefferson College of Health Professions Thomas Jefferson University Christopher M. Callahan, MD Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Professor of Aging Research Director, Indiana University Center for Aging Research Investigator, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Robert Egge Project Director Center for Health Transformation Washington, DC Lynn Friss Feinberg, MSW Deputy Director, National Center on Caregiving Family Caregiver Alliance San Francisco, CA Laura N. Gitlin, PhD Director, Jefferson Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy Co-Executive Director Living Laboratory for Elder Care Jefferson College of Health Professions Thomas Jefferson University Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD Licensed Psychologist Director of Behavioral Sciences Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program Springfield, PA Katie Maslow, MSW Associate Director, Quality Care Advocacy Alzheimer’s Association Public Policy Division Washington, DC Nancy B. O’Connor Regional Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Philadelphia Regional Office United States Department of Health and Human Services Philadelphia, PA Catherine Verrier Piersol, MS, OTR/L Clinical Director, Living Laboratory for Elder Care Jefferson Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health Jefferson College of Health Professions Thomas Jefferson University Susan C. Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN Senior Vice President, Public Policy Institute AARP Washington, DC Barry W. Rovner, MD Professor Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience Director of Clinical Alzheimer’s Disease Research Farber Institute for Neurosciences Thomas Jefferson University Richard Schulz, PhD Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Sociology, Psychology, Community Health, and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Director University Center for Social and Urban Research Associate Director University of Pittsburgh Institute on Aging Pittsburgh, PA Leslie M. Swann, PhD Aging Program Management Specialist United States Department of Health and Human Services United States Administration on Aging Washington, DC A tour of the new multidisciplinary Hamilton Building and reception to follo