Shatter the Stigma: An Interprofessional Simulation with Standardized Patients


TTUHSC Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE) Experience


Title of the Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience

Shatter the Stigma: An Interprofessional Simulation with Standardized Patients


Experience Status

Approved


Approval Date Range

5/6/2021 - 2/1/2025


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

  • Simulation learning

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.
  • Teams and Teamwork: Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings.
  • Values and Ethics: Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.

Quintuple Aim Strategic Goals Discussed in this IPE Experience

  • Advancing health equity
  • Enhancing the experience of care
  • Improving patient and/or population health outcomes
  • Reducing the cost of care

Detailed Description and Purpose of the IPE Experience

Because healthcare professionals are typically the first points of contact for a person with a substance use disorder (SUD), they should take the necessary steps to reduce the potential for stigma and negative bias. In this interprofessional simulation with standardized patients, teams of students from diverse professional backgrounds can take the first step in shattering the stigma of SUDs by learning and practicing the use of destigmatizing patient interviewing techniques with standardized patients. During this event interprofessional teamwork, communication, roles/responsibilities, and values/ethics will be address during the following activities:
1. Keynote presentation on team-based care in SUDs and harm reduction strategies
2. Interprofessional interviewing strategies to destigmatize the patient interview in SUDs
3. Small group simulation with SPs - interprofessional teams of ~5 students and a faculty facilitator will review case histories for SPs, they will then work together to interview 2-3 SPs around the topic of SUD using destigmatizing language and interview techniques, and then the team will debrief their team performance with their facilitator.
4. Large group debrief to discuss the simulation
5. Reflect on a personal story of a person in recovery.
6. Complete a team evaluation


Level of IPE Integration

  • Immersion Level: Consists of development learning activities that provide learners with the opportunity to learn about, with, and from other professional learners in an active learning situation where they are applying learning during the activity. The desired outcome for activities offered at the immersion level is that learners will develop critical thinking skills as part of an interprofessional view that incorporates multiple perspectives, and acknowledges and encourages diversity in providing quality health and human services.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

  • Certificate credit
  • Portfolio credit
  • Program and/or school requirement

Frequency of the IPE Experience

  • 01. Annually
  • Annual event in the Summer Semester

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

  • 03. 4 to 5 hours
  • 3.5-virtual event

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

  • Distance Education

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

  • 05. 201 to 300
  • 200-300

Target Audiences

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

  • Biomedical Sciences, MS
  • Biomedical Sciences, PhD
  • Biotechnology, MS
  • Graduate Medical Sciences, MS
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences, MS
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences, PhD

School of Health Professions Audiences

  • Addiction Counseling, MS
  • Athletic Training, MAT
  • Audiology, AuD
  • Medical Laboratory Science (Certificate)
  • Medical Laboratory Science (Second Degree), BS
  • Medical Laboratory Science, BS
  • Clinical Mental Health Counseling, MS
  • Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, MS
  • Healthcare Administration, MS
  • Healthcare Management, BS
  • Molecular Pathology, MS
  • Physical Therapy, DPT
  • Rehabilitation Science, ScD
  • Physician Assistant Studies, MPAS
  • Rehabilitation Science, PhD
  • Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (Second Degree), BS
  • Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, BS
  • Speech-Language Pathology, MS
  • Occupational Therapy, OTD
  • Occupational Therapy (Post-Professional), OTD-P

School of Medicine Audiences

  • MS 1
  • MS 2
  • MS 3
  • MS 4
  • Residents

School of Nursing Audiences

  • Doctor of Nursing Practice
  • Graduate MSN
  • Post-Master’s/Advanced Practice
  • RN to BSN
  • Second Degree BSN
  • Traditional BSN
  • Veteran BSN

School of Pharmacy Audiences

  • P1
  • P2
  • P3
  • P4
  • SOP Residents

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

  • Public Health, MPH Traditional
  • Public Health, MPH Online

Other

IPE Learning Objectives for the Experience

Values and Ethics

  • VE07. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.
  • VE04. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
  • VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.
  • VE05. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and health outcomes.
  • VE06. Collaborate with honesty and integrity while striving for health equity and improvements in health outcomes.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • RR03. Incorporate complementary expertise to meet health needs including the determinants of health.

Communication

  • C02. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
  • C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.
  • C06. Use constructive feedback to connect, align, and accomplish team goals.

Teams and Teamwork

  • TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
  • TT05. Apply interprofessional conflict management methods, including identifying conflict cause and addressing divergent perspectives.
  • TT06. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.
  • TT07. Share team accountability for outcomes.
  • TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.

Type of Learner Assessment Administered

  • Attitudinal and/or perceptions survey
  • Formative assessment

Formal Assessment Protocol used, if Applicable

Type of Program Evaluation Administered

  • Activity feedback/evaluation – from faculty, facilitators, and/or preceptors
  • Activity feedback/evaluation – from learners
  • Facilitated debrief with planning committee
  • Planning committee feedback/evaluation

Provide Details on the Potential Sustainability of the IPE Experience

  • Dedicated personnel
  • Dedicated resources
  • Integrated into program curriculum
  • This IPE Learning activity has been integrated into the annual rotation of IPE activities managed by the Office of Interprofessional Education.

Provide Dedicated Funding Sources:

  • Centralized university administration funding

Roles of Faculty/Staff in the IPE Experience:

  • Facilitators
  • Planning committee members
  • Small group facilitators and planning committee members.

Additional Information About the IPE Experience, if Necessary


IPE Experience Organizer

  • Office of Interprofessional Education

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

Renée J. Bogschutz, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Director of Interprofessional Education
Office of Interprofessional Education
806.743.2028 | ipe@ttuhsc.edu