Convergence Days: An Initiative for Interprofessional Education

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

• Case-based and/or problem-based learning
• Team-building event
• 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.
• 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

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

Level of IPE Integration

• Exposure 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 the exposure level is that learners will gain a deeper understanding of their own profession while gaining an appreciation for the perspective and roles of other professions.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

• Program and/or school requirement
• Certificate credit

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 01. Annually
• Annually. Convergence Day Typically Occurs in the Fall Semester.

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 03. 4 to 5 hours
• 3-4 hours

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Dallas
• (2020 Virtual Convergence, includes Dallas, Abilene, and Amarillo)

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 08. 751 to 1000
• 800+ interprofessional students, including 50+ first year pharmacy students (2020 Virtual Convergence, includes all 120+ P1 Dallas, Abilene, and Amarillo students)

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

School of Health Professions Audiences

School of Medicine Audiences

School of Nursing Audiences

School of Pharmacy Audiences

• P1

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

Other

Health professions students including PT, PO, PA, CN, RC, RT, junior nursing students, MS3 students

Values and Ethics

• VE07. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• RR03. Incorporate complementary expertise to meet health needs including the determinants of health.
• 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.
• RR04. Differentiate each team member’s role, scope of practice, and responsibility in promoting health outcomes.

Communication

• C02. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
• C05. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.
• C01. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT01. Describe evidence-informed processes of team development and team practices.
• TT06. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.
• TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.