Interprofessional Education Summary
Spring 2025
TeamSTEPPS® IPE Training
LMU-DCOM held another virtual IPE/TeamSTEPPS® Essentials Course training on the 25th and 28th of March 2025. Student attendees included Osteopathic Medical students from LMU-DCOM, Pharmacy students from South College, and Dental Hygienist students, also from LMU. A total of 503 students attended. Master Trainer Dr. Brandy Fuesting facilitated the training.
TeamSTEPPS® is a teamwork system designed for health care professionals that is:
- A powerful solution to improving patient safety within your organization.
- An evidence-based teamwork system to improve communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals.
- A source for ready-to-use materials and a training curriculum to successfully integrate teamwork principles into all areas of your health care system.
- Scientifically rooted in more than 20 years of research and lessons from the application of teamwork principles.
- Developed by the Department of Defense's Patient Safety Program in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
TeamSTEPPS® provides higher quality, safer patient care by:
- Producing highly effective medical teams that optimize the use of information, people, and resources to achieve the best clinical outcomes for patients.
- Increasing team awareness and clarifying team roles and responsibilities.
- Resolving conflicts and improving information sharing.
- Eliminating barriers to quality and safety.
Opioid Education Symposium 2025:
MOVING AWAY FROM OPIOID RELIANCE; INTERPROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE
Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) hosted the 2025 Virtual Opioid Education Symposium (OES2025) on Monday, April 21, from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The theme of this year’s symposium was MOVING AWAY FROM OPIOID RELIANCE; INTERPROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE. This symposium series continues to increase recognition, from both clinical and holistic perspectives, of the devastating factors contributing to opioid misuse, regionally and nationally. 950 Students ranging from programs such as Osteopathic Medical Education, Physician Assistant, Family Nurse Practitioner, Pharmacy, Registered Nurse, and Social Work attended this event.
Objectives for this virtual event were as follows:
- Explore historical use of opioids, evidence-based adjuncts and alternatives to opioid therapy.
- Define and recognize the role of a personalized compassionate care approach to substance use disorders.
- Identify the unique needs of diverse populations when addressing mental health and other opioid use disorder vulnerabilities.
- Describe the role of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment as an adjunctive measure in the care of patients struggling with substance use disorder.
Monday April 21, from 12:30-4:30
12:30 – 12:35 p.m. Introduction: Dr. Sherry Jimenez
12:35 – 1:20 p.m. Compassionate Care in Street Medicine: Dr. Danielle Darter
1:20 – 2:15 p.m. Keynote: Osteopathic Considerations for the Care of Patients Struggling with Opioid Use Disorder: Dr. Teanna Moore
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Teanna Moore is a native of East Tennessee and completed her medical education at the University of Pikeville - Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2010. She then completed Integrated Family Medicine and Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine at Pikeville Medical Center in Pikeville, Ky. Dr. Moore is currently serving as the Department Chair for Osteopathic Principles and Practices (OPP) and an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine. |
2:15 – 2:25 p.m. Break (10 Minutes)
2:25 – 3:20 p.m. Keynote: Making Positive change; Responding with Compassion: Ms. Jan Rader
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Jan Rader joined the Huntington Fire Department in August of 1994 as the first woman to reach the rank of Chief for a career department in the State of West Virginia. Jan is a Fire and EMS Instructor in the State of West Virginia. She retired from the Fire Department but currently serves as the Director of the Mayor’s Council of Public Health & Drug Control Policy. Chief Rader was included in the short documentary “Heroin(e)” released by Netflix in September of 2017. Then in April of 2018, she was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Chief Rader also gave a TED Talk about what it takes to save a life during the opioid crisis. |
3:20 – 3:30 p.m. Break (10 Minutes)
3:30 – 4:10 pm Experiential Speaker Panel: Dr. Danielle Darter, Moderator
4:10 – 4:30 pm Wrap up and survey.
Please click the link below to access the event recording:
https://portal.stretchinternet.com/lincolnmemorialevents/index.htm
Summer 2025
Developing Awareness of Financial Insecurities as a Social Determinant of Health
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. This activity is designed to introduce students to financial insecurities as a SDOH and demonstrate how financial insecurities may contribute to poor health outcomes. Using the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies as a framework, students will be able to meet the following outcomes:
VE1. Place interests of patients and populations at the center of interprofessional health care delivery and population health programs and policies, with the goal of promoting health and health equity across the life span.
VE3. Embrace the cultural diversity and individual differences that characterize patients, populations, and the health team.
TT3. Engage health and other professionals in shared patient-centered and population-focused problem solving.
Activity
Two-hour Zoom Session on July 10, 2025, from 2-4 p.m. For this 2-hour learning activity, students will interact as part of an interprofessional team and will be asked to work through real life situations as they pertain to specific fictional scenarios using an online, game-based platform. These specific circumstances will guide how you as a group choose to proceed through the fictional scenario offered specifically to their interprofessional group.
- Students briefed regarding process during the Zoom session intro.
- Students break out in smaller interdisciplinary teams.
- Students expected to share their knowledge and experiences to answer the questions presented for each scenario and complete the learning activity within 45 minutes.
- Students listen and respect the varying viewpoints of all participants.
- Students guided by a trained moderator during the interactive activity.
- Students return to a larger group for debrief.