From the Editors

Welcome to the latest edition of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter. In this issue, Dr. Zukowsky and colleagues describe the value of high-fidelity simulation to train interprofessional teams in high-risk high-stakes care. Their successful model has important implications for preparing teams to perform optimally during critical, and often stressful, clinical situations where expertise in both technical and team skills is imperative for best patient outcomes. Dr. Levinson and colleagues describe an exciting interprofessional care planning course which, for the first time at Jefferson, has brought senior Occupational Therapy (OT), Physical Therapy (PT), Nursing, Pharmacy and Medical students together to explore robust, multi-faceted, person-centered care plans for patients with complex disabilities. Dr. Salzman provides an overview of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, an important model for improving primary care and incorporating coordinated interprofessional team care in a re-designed healthcare system. This piece gives an introduction to a new occasional series on Interprofessional Education and Care in the primary care setting

From the Editors

Welcome to this inaugural edition of the Jefferson InterProfessional Education and Care Newsletter. We are delighted to launch this new vehicle to share the exciting programs advancing interprofessional care and education that are happening here at Jefferson and beyond. The Newsletter will be a biannual on-line peer-reviewed publication, which will showcase a range of innovative courses, experiential, simulation, and clinical instruction, and new models of team-based care, all designed to enhance the ability of the healthcare team to meet the mandates of the Institute of Medicine to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, patientcentered care. Interprofessional team-based care has been widely accepted as a key element to a re-designed health-care system; however, evidence for the true effectiveness of interprofessional collaborative care, and the educational interventions that support it, is lacking. We hope this Newsletter will serve as one forum for bringing promising new strategies to your attention as they are developed

From the Editors

Welcome to the latest edition of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter. We are thrilled to report that participation in interprofessional education (IPE) and collaboration by faculty and staff at Jefferson is escalating. In this issue, Drs. Manning and Swan provide an overview of the recent Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing report that reaffirms the importance of interprofessional collaboration in the classroom and clinical education for health care outcomes. Dr. Herge and colleagues describe a Jefferson example of how IPE can successfully be implemented in an existing discipline specific course. A clinical skills scenario (a woman hospitalized with an acute stroke) was presented in an occupational therapy course to teams of students from medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and pharmacy. The student teams worked with standardized patients/family to develop an interprofessional discharge plan

From the Editors

Welcome to the latest edition of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter. We are pleased to describe the launch of two reports essential to interprofessional education and practice in the United States that occurred on May 11, 2011: Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and Team-Based Competencies, Building a Shared Foundation for Education and Clinical Practice. The first report, Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, was produced by an expert panel convened in 2009 by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), a unique partnership of six associations - the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Dental Education Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Association of Schools of Public Health. The panel proposed four domains of core competencies needed to provide integrated, collaborative, high-quality, cost-effective care to patients within the nation\u27s current, evolving health care system

Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education-12/10/2008

The Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE) is an interdisciplinary program designed to improve patient care through implementing and evaluating patient-centered education within the Thomas Jefferson University curriculum. The JCIPE Co-Directors of the program, Dr. Arenson and Dr. Rose discuss their research and experiences

Workshop #3: Interprofessional Education Knowledge and Skills Development

Objectives: 1. Categorize the elements of successful interprofessional curricular design. 2. Produce an interprofessional action plan for existing courses