Medicine on the Move: An Interprofessional Collaborative Care Mobile Clinic

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

• Clinical observation and/or professional interview
• Experiential and/or clinical learning
• Service learning and/or community engagement project
• Team-building event

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

Level of IPE Integration

• 2. 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
• CV credit
• Voluntary basis
• Experiential credit
• Community service credit

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 06. Monthly

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 02. 1 to 3 hours

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Midland
• Odessa

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 01. up to 50

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

School of Health Professions Audiences

• Physician Assistant Studies, MPAS
• Physical Therapy, DPT

School of Medicine Audiences

• MS 3
• MS 4
• Residents

School of Nursing Audiences

• RN to BSN
• Veteran BSN

School of Pharmacy Audiences

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

Other

Values and Ethics

• VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.
• VE03. Uphold the dignity, privacy, identity, and autonomy of persons while maintaining confidentiality in the delivery of team-based care.
• VE04. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
• 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.
• VE07. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.
• VE08. Apply high standards of ethical conduct and quality in contributions to team-based care.
• VE09. Maintain competence in one’s own profession in order to contribute to interprofessional care.

Roles and Responsibilities

• RR05. Practice cultural humility in interprofessional teamwork.
• 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.
• RR02. Collaborate with others within and outside of the health system to improve health outcomes.

Communication

• C02. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
• C03. Communicate clearly with authenticity and cultural humility, avoiding discipline-specific terminology.
• C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.
• C05. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.
• C06. Use constructive feedback to connect, align, and accomplish team goals.
• C07. Examine one’s position, power, role, unique experience, expertise, and culture towards improving communication and managing conflicts.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT01. Describe evidence-informed processes of team development and team practices.
• TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.
• TT05. Apply interprofessional conflict management methods, including identifying conflict cause and addressing divergent perspectives.
• TT07. Share team accountability for outcomes.
• TT06. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.