Improving health outcomes through interprofessional teamwork: an educational resource for learners, clinicians, educators, community, and policymakers: Public Health


Ohio State Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience


Title of the Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience

Improving health outcomes through interprofessional teamwork: an educational resource for learners, clinicians, educators, community, and policymakers: Public Health


Experience Status

Approved


Approval Date Range

8/28/2025 - 8/28/2026


Criteria for Registering the IPE Experience

  • 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.
  • Significant interactivity between participants.
  • Learner performance next to at least one objective related to Ohio State’s interprofessional collaborative practice competencies is assessed, and learners are provided feedback.
  • Involvement of learners from two or more professions, disciplines, degree programs, and/or community sectors.

Type of IPE Experience

  • Discussion

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

  • Improved health care team experience
  • Improved health equity
  • Improved patient / client experience
  • Improved population health

Detailed Description and Purpose of the IPE Experience

In process: Visual graphic case study for face-to-face and online learning. Available for the Spring 2027.


Level of IPE Integration

  • 2. Immersion: Participants learn about, with, and from others in an active learning situation while applying new knowledge and skills during the experience. The desired outcome for experiences 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

  • Stand-alone for-credit course
  • Unit, module, or experience embedded within a for-credit course

Attendance or Participation is Voluntary or Required

  • Combination of required and elective or voluntary

Preparation Work Hours

Frequency of the IPE Experience

  • 01. Annually – occurs one time a year

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

  • 02. 1 to 3 hours

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

  • Campus - Columbus
  • Distance Education
  • Distance-Enhanced

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

  • 02. 11-25

Target Audiences

College of Arts and Sciences (ASC)


College of Dentistry


College of Education and Human Ecology (EHE)


College of Engineering


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


College of Medicine


College of Nursing


College of Optometry


College of Pharmacy


College of Public Health (CPH)


College of Social Work (CSW)


College of Veterinary Medicine


Ohio Dominican University


Other

In Development

IPEC Core Competencies for the Experience

IPEC Core Competency: Values and Ethics

  • VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.

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

  • C01. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly.

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

Andrea Pfeifle
Andrea.Pfeifle@osumc.edu