Designing Collaborative Patient Screening Tools: An Interprofessional Didactic Small Group Activity


TTUHSC Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE) Experience


Title of the Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience

Designing Collaborative Patient Screening Tools: An Interprofessional Didactic Small Group Activity


Experience Status

Approved


Approval Date Range

9/24/2024 - 9/24/2025


Criteria for Registering the IPE Experience

  • Involvement of two or more professions.
  • Opportunities to learn about, from, and with one another.
  • Significant interactivity between participants.
  • Teaching and/or learning about interprofessional practice and education is intentionally integrated into the activity. Interprofessional practice and education constructs are targeted with IPE learning objectives are also discussed, trained, reviewed, and/or assessed as part of the learning activity.

Type of IPE Experience

  • Didactic learning
  • Case-based and/or problem-based learning
  • Workshop, interactive demo, or small group activity

IPEC Core Competencies Targeted by this IPE Experience

  • Communication: Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
  • Roles and Responsibilities: Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual and population health outcomes.
  • Values and Ethics: Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.
  • Teams and Teamwork: Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings.

Quintuple Aim Strategic Goals Discussed in this IPE Experience

  • Enhancing the experience of care
  • Improving patient and/or population health outcomes

Detailed Description and Purpose of the IPE Experience

The Doctor of Science in Rehabilitation Sciences program includes students from three different professions- athletic training, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. This activity is part of HPDS 6304 Medical Screening for Rehabilitation Sciences. The purpose of this activity is to share professional knowledge, beliefs, and values to improve screening skills in all rehabilitation settings. Each profession has a unique perspective and experience with screenings that are a product of their education, scope of practice, and the settings in which they work. Screening skills are necessary for optimal patient care experiences as well as providing value-based care. Appropriate referrals save patients time and money and also allow other providers to function in an efficient manner.

During the face-to-face on-campus session, students from different professions will participate in small group discussions concerning screening and patient management considerations for a variety of patient types, bodily systems, and settings. These interactions will allow students to share concepts and perform activities that are potentially not part of their normal clinical practices. During case-based discussions, students will answer not only content-related questions but also questions related to the IPEC Core Competencies.

Outline of Activity:
1. Large Group Brief: The brief will include goals and outcomes for both content and IPE.
2. Interprofessional Small Group Activity: Interprofessional teams of 3-4 learners will discuss a case and determine appropriate screening tools from each of the professional viewpoints. Students will also discuss roles and responsibilities, teams and teamwork, communication, and values/ethics.
3. Large Group Debrief: Teams will report out on small group discussions and the instructor will provide a facilitated debrief.


Level of IPE Integration

  • 1. Foundations Level: Consists of introductory learning activities that provide learners with the opportunity to interact and learn from professionals and peers from disciplines beyond their own. The desired outcome for activities offered at this level is that learners will gain a deeper understanding of their profession while gaining an appreciation for the perspective and roles of other professions.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

  • Course requirement - HPDS 6304 Medical Screening for Rehabilitation Sciences

Frequency of the IPE Experience

  • 02. Semesterly
  • This course is offered during even numbered Spring semesters. It is a core course in the program- meaning students are required to complete it as part of their curriculum.

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

  • 02. 1 to 3 hours
  • These discussions are part of a two-day face-to-face in person learning session.

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

  • Lubbock

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

  • 01. up to 50
  • Class sizes are usually 15-20 in size

Target Audiences

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences


School of Health Professions Audiences

  • Rehabilitation Science, ScD

School of Medicine Audiences


School of Nursing Audiences


School of Pharmacy Audiences


School of Population and Public Health Audiences


Other

IPE Learning Objectives for the Experience

Values and Ethics

  • VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.
  • VE04. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
  • VE05. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and health outcomes.
  • VE09. Maintain competence in one’s own profession in order to contribute to interprofessional care.
  • VE11. Support a workplace where differences are respected, career satisfaction is supported, and wellbeing is prioritized.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • RR01. Include the full scope of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of team members to provide care that is person-centered, safe, cost-effective, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
  • RR03. Incorporate complementary expertise to meet health needs including the determinants of health.
  • RR05. Practice cultural humility in interprofessional teamwork.

Communication

  • C03. Communicate clearly with authenticity and cultural humility, avoiding discipline-specific terminology.
  • C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.

Teams and Teamwork

  • TT02. Appreciate team members’ diverse experiences, expertise, cultures, positions, power, and roles towards improving team function.
  • TT10. Discuss organizational structures, policies, practices, resources, access to information, and timing issues that impact the effectiveness of the team.

Type of Learner Assessment Administered

  • Peer feedback
  • Self-reflection with facilitated debrief

Formal Assessment Protocol used, if Applicable

Not applicable

Type of Program Evaluation Administered

  • Activity feedback/evaluation – from learners

Provide Details on the Potential Sustainability of the IPE Experience

  • Integrated into a course and/or experiential rotation requirements

Provide Dedicated Funding Sources:

  • No dedicated funding

Roles of Faculty/Staff in the IPE Experience:

  • Facilitators
  • Instructors and/or preceptors

Additional Information About the IPE Experience, if Necessary


IPE Experience Organizer

  • School of Health Professions

Contact Person(s) and Contact Information for the IPE Experience

Brad Allen, ScD
School of Health Professions
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
Doctor of Science in Rehabilitation Sciences
brad.allen@ttuhsc.edu
806743-1639