Interprofessional Education Summary
Fall 2023
Healthcare Literacy and Interprofessional Telehealth Consideration
The primary objective of this Interprofessional learning activity continues to be to provide students with an opportunity to analyze the impact of culture, language, social determinants of health, and health literacy, along with Interprofessional telehealth considerations, as they pertain to continuity of care and the patient's ability to make and implement health related decisions across multiple levels of patient-centered care. This IPE project includes students from various disciplines at LMU including Osteopathic Medicine, Physician Assistant, Family Nurse Practitioner, Physical Therapy, Veterinary Medicine, and Pharmacy students from South College. It is utilized within each of the disciplines differently, as either a course, certificate program, or co-curricular requirement credit depending on the curricular needs of each discipline.
This virtual activity provides approximately 640 students the opportunity to experience multiple asynchronous recorded simulations. The students witness actual professionals as they model simulated virtual interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings in a hospital setting, skilled nursing facility, and home health setting. Two separate live cumulative sessions are facilitated to include polling, small group breakout rooms, and large group discussion opportunities planned to facilitate interprofessional collaborative learning
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.
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 11, 2023, 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.
Spring 2023
TeamSTEPPS® IPE Training
LMU-DCOM held an IPE/TeamSTEPPS® Essentials Course training for their DO students with pharmacy students from both University of Tennessee (UT) and South College. This event took place on the 16 and 23 of February 2022 via Zoom. We had four TeamSTEPPS® Master Trainers. A total of 615 students attend; LMU had 370; 140 Knoxville, 230 Harrogate; UT had 161; 40 Knoxville, 36 Nashville, 85 Memphis; and South had 84 Knoxville.
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 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 2023: MOVING AWAY FROM OPIOID RELIANCE; INTERPROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) hosted the 2023 Virtual Opioid Education Symposium (OES2023) on Monday, April 17, 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. This symposium series continues to increase recognition, from both clinical and holistic perspectives, of the devastating factors contributing to opioid misuse, regionally and nationally. There was over a thousand attendees including, but not to be limited to, students from programs such as Osteopathic Medical Education, Physician Assistant, Family Nurse Practitioner, Pharmacy and Social Work.
Objectives for the virtual event were as follows:
- Explore historical use of opioids, alternatives, and the CDC prescribing guidelines.
- Recognize the role of holistic approaches to patient care regarding substance use disorder.
- Awareness of the unique needs of different populations when addressing opioid addiction.
- Describe the role of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment as an adjunctive measure in the care of patients struggling with substance use disorder.
Monday April 17, from 12:30-4:30
12:30 p.m.–12:35 p.m. Introduction and Opening Remarks: Dr. Sherry Jimenez
12:40 p.m.–1:40 p.m. Keynote (1) - Opioids: History of the Epidemic, Alternatives, Prescribing Practices: Dr. Jacqueline S. Rowles
1:45 p.m.–3:05 p.m. Social and Neurophysiologic Underpinnings of Opioid Reliance Shared Lecture: Dr. Ian Rheault, Dr. Brandy Fuesting, and Professor Karen Adair Short Commentary/Panel Discussion/Closing Comments: Dr. Ryan Alexander, Dr. Kip Wenger
3:05 p.m.–3:20 p.m. Break
3:20 p.m.–4:20 p.m. Keynote (2) Osteopathic Considerations for the Care of Patients Struggling with Opioid Use Disorder: Dr. Teanna Moore 4:20 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Wrap up and survey.
Please click the link below to access the event recording: