PUBAFRS 5620: Rapid Innovation for Public Impact

Ohio State Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience


Title of the Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience

PUBAFRS 5620: Rapid Innovation for Public Impact


Experience Status

Approved


Approval Date Range

8/2/2023 - 3/9/2026


Criteria for Registering the IPE Experience

  • Involvement of learners from two or more professions, disciplines, degree programs, and/or community sectors.
  • Learning objectives are directly related to one or more of Ohio State’s interprofessional collaborative practice competencies (Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice, Roles/Responsibilities, Interprofessional Communication, Teams & Teamwork, Collaborative Leadership, Evidence-based Practice).
  • Learners actively learn about, from, and with each other, to improve health and healthcare outcomes for individuals, populations, and/or communities.
  • Learner performance next to at least one objective related to Ohio State’s interprofessional collaborative practice competencies is assessed, and learners are provided feedback.
  • Significant interactivity between participants.

Type of IPE Experience

  • Discussion

IPEC Core Competencies Targeted by this IPE Experience

  • 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

  • Improved health care team experience

Detailed Description and Purpose of the IPE Experience

The Rapid Innovation for Public Impact course is a multi-disciplinary capstone or hands-on applications
course in which student teams tackle real, contemporary, complex problems sponsored by government or
non-profit agencies. Its goal is to produce solutions that are technically feasible, desirable from
stakeholders’ perspectives, and viable for adoption and integration. Following a systematic methodology,
student teams develop minimum viable products (MVP) or proofs-of-concept through intensive customer
discovery and agile design, development, and testing with customers and stakeholders. Students acquire
an in-depth understanding of and experience in systematic innovation, refining problem-statements,
engaging customers and stakeholders, navigating public sector organizations, budgeting, and management
issues. Since the course delivery is designed to simulate the uncertainty and dynamism of the ‘real world’,
students practice foundational professional skills throughout the semester such as: systems-thinking;
applied critical thinking; creativity; collaboration; communication; and cultural competence. Teams invest
significant time: interacting with professionals outside the classroom; engaging weekly with instructors,
sponsors, and mentors; preparing written status-reports; and presenting weekly to the teaching team,
sponsors, mentors, peers, and guests for critiques which emulate briefings to management or investors.
Students acquire not only tools and leadership skills but an innovation mindset and exposure to a vast
array of careers in the public sector.


Level of IPE Integration

  • 1. Foundations: Consists of introductory learning experience that equips learners with new knowledge and skills that enable them to interact and learn from professions, disciplines, and community sectors outside their own.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

  • Stand-alone for-credit course - PUBAFRS 5620

Attendance or Participation is Voluntary or Required

  • Required for everyone enrolled

Preparation Work Hours

Frequency of the IPE Experience

  • 02. Semesterly – occurs each semester

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

  • 06. greater than 11 hours

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

  • Campus - Columbus

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

  • 03. 26- 50

Target Audiences

College of Arts and Sciences (ASC)

  • Speech-Language Pathology (MA)

College of Dentistry


College of Education and Human Ecology (EHE)


College of Engineering


College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)


College of Medicine

  • Clinical Doctorate in Occupational Therapy (DOT)
  • Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT)
  • Doctor of Medicine (MD)
  • Master in Athletic Training (MAT)
  • Master in Genetic Counseling (MS in Genetic Counseling)
  • Bachelor of Science in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences – Respiratory Therapy
  • Master of Dietetics and Nutrition (MDN)
  • Master of Science in Health and Rehabilitation (MS in HRS)
  • Medical Laboratory Science (MLS)

College of Nursing


College of Optometry

  • Doctor of Optometry (OD)

College of Pharmacy

  • Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)

College of Public Health (CPH)


College of Social Work (CSW)

  • Master of Social Work (MSW)

College of Veterinary Medicine

  • Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)

Ohio Dominican University


Other

IPEC Core Competencies for the Experience

IPEC Core Competency: Values and Ethics

IPEC Core Competency: 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.

IPEC Core Competency: Communication

IPEC Core Competency: Teams and Teamwork

  • TT01. Describe evidence-informed processes of team development and team practices.

Collaborative Leadership

Evidence-Based Practice

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

Dr. Elizabeth K. Newton
(newton.387@osu.edu; 256-653-1310)

USAF Colonel (ret) Kevin Cullen
(cullen.127@osu.edu)