IPE Activities

TeamSTEPPS Training 

August 24 and 26, 2021

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM via Zoom

Fall 2021 Initial IPE Institutional Student Team Workshops 

September 22 or 29, 2021

Through participation in IPE student learning activities students will identify and apply the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors needed to:

1. Identify the relevance of psychological safety in development of trust and respect within the interprofessional team.
2. Discuss the role of stereotypes, implicit bias, failure to manage conflict appropriately and misinformation as factors in disrespect and failure to value interprofessional teammates.
3. Recognize examples of disrespect and failure to value interprofessional teammates contributions to the team.
4. Identify effective strategies to promote respect and expression of value for interprofessional teammates.
5. Participate in Interprofessional team interactions with mutual respect, ethical integrity, and trust.
6. Identify the benefits of interprofessional teamwork in patient care and public health.
7. Communicate effectively with Interprofessional health professions peers.
8. Identify teaming factors that contribute to a culture of patient safety and health care improvement.
9. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the value of psychological safety utilizing the principles of psychological safety to guide their team interaction and behavior for their IPE workshop.
10. Students will reflect upon the role of stereotypes, implicit bias, failure to manage conflict appropriately and misinformation as factors in disrespect and failure to value interprofessional teammates.
11. Students will evaluate examples of interprofessional team interaction to assess for expression of respect, disrespect and its impact on team psychological safety.
12. Students will be able to articulate the purpose and value of the four core IPEC Interprofessional Practice Competencies.
13. Students will assess their team for psychological safety, and identify examples of value and respect demonstrated within their interprofessional teamwork for the IPE workshop.

Fall 2021 Intermediate IPE Institutional Student Team Workshops

October 20 and 27, 2021 

Through participation in IPE student learning activities students will identify and apply the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors needed to:

1. Work effectively with others as a member or leader of an interprofessional healthcare team.
2. Manage interprofessional healthcare team interactions with mutual respect, ethical integrity, and trust.
3. Coordinate patient care within an interprofessional health care team.
4. Use the full scope of knowledge, skills, and abilities of available health professionals to assess and address patient and population care.
5. Communicate effectively with interprofessional colleagues.
6. Identify system failures and contribute to a culture of safety and improvement.

Poverty Simulation

Scheduled for Spring 2022

Poverty is a reality for many individuals and families. But unless you've experienced poverty, it's difficult to truly understand. The Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) bridges that gap from misconception to understanding. CAPS is an interactive immersion experience. It sensitizes community participants to the realities of poverty. During the simulation, faculty and students from our various programs including Social Work, Athletic Training, Speech Language Pathology and Nursing, role-play a month in poverty and experience low income families’ lives. The goal of the simulation is to shift the paradigm about poverty away from being seen as a personal failure and toward the understanding of poverty as structural, a failure of society.

SAGE

The Seniors Assisting in Geriatric Education (SAGE) Program is an innovative, instructional program that was designed to enhance and strengthen your training in geriatrics.  This program is offered through the collaboration of the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) Department of Geriatrics and Office of Interprofessional Education, the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM), and Texas Christian University (TCU).

The SAGE Program consists of an educational curriculum and community-based outreach program, aimed at increasing student opportunities for early exposure to older adults and issues of geriatrics. The program strives to create meaningful relationships for an inter-professional health professions team of students to gain knowledge about today’s older adult population and their needs, while guiding the next generation of healthcare professions.  The educational component involves students interacting with each other and their assigned older adult through structured assignments delivered in the home environment.

Student teams are paired into inter-professional teams of three or four and matched with a senior volunteer in the community, aged 65 and older, known as a “Senior Mentor.” 

The SAGE Program includes four visits over a one-year period, two in the Spring and two in the Fall, providing health care professions students with the opportunity to apply their classroom education in the context and care of an older adult.  Students practice and demonstrate basic clinical skills, including taking histories, interviewing, conducting physical and cognitive screening, and providing information about safety, advance care planning, and community resources.

Mission:  To strengthen health professions students’ interprofessional medical education in the development of competency in attitude, knowledge, and skills in the care of older adults.

Vision: The SAGE Program will impact the way future healthcare professionals manage the care of older adults and interact on multidisciplinary teams.

Values: Communication, Teamwork, and Empathy

Common Reading

The Common Reading is scheduled for October 21, 2021

Through collaborative teamwork, IPE is an opportunity for students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to come together with the goal of creating solutions for healthier communities and safer health care systems. As part of the collaborative experience, the IPE Common Reading Program is a shared learning experience for students from the disciplines of TCU Communication Sciences & Disorders, TCU Nursing, TCU Athletic Training, TCU Social Work, UNTHSC School of Public Health, and UTA School of Social Work. Our goal for this interactive discussion is to stimulate meaningful conversations about the profession that you are entering while learning about many possibilities to make a difference. Additionally, it is our hope that this book will illustrate the diverse roles and responsibilities that are found in the fields of health care and ask you to think about injustices that occur in the communities we live and work in.