Aspects of IPE at IUSO
Fall 2015
University Level Commitment
• Indiana University is committed to interprofessional
health care education that prepares learners to
partner in providing high quality, team-based care
to optimize health.
• Core Values for Interprofessional Health Care
Education
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Mutual trust and respect
Open and responsive communication
Collective responsibility in decision-making
Shared accountability
Indiana University School of Optometry
IPE at Indiana University
Definition of Interprofessional Health
Care Education
Interprofessional health care education is “two or
more health professionals learning about, from,
and with each other to enable patient-centered
collaborative practice and thereby enhance health
outcomes”.
Indiana University School of Optometry
Mission Statement
To implement, support, and evaluate interprofessional
health education and practice programs at Indiana
University in order to translate the outcomes of
interprofessional health education into collaborative
practice models.
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IU TEACH (Team Education Advancing Collaboration in Healthcare)
IMMERSION: Development
COMPETENCE: Entry-to-Practice
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Roles/
Responsibilities
Interprofessional
Communication
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Teams and
Teamwork
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Communicate one’s professional roles,
responsibilities, and contributions to others
Recognize one's limitations in skills,
knowledge, and abilities.
Describe how the team works together to
improve health, healthcare, and community
outcomes.
Recognize that individuals, populations and
communities must have a voice in decisions
that affect them.
Communicate the importance of
teamwork in person-centered and
community-focused care.
Listen actively, and encourage ideas and
opinions of others.
Describe the process of team development
and the characteristics and practices of
effective teams.
Reflect on individual and team
performance.
Share accountability with others to
improve outcomes relevant to prevention
and health care.
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Work in cooperation with those who contribute to
or support the delivery of prevention and health
services.
Respect the dignity and privacy of others while
maintaining confidentiality in the delivery of IP
care and services.
Act with honesty and integrity in relationships with
others.
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Explain the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of
others and how to work together to optimize outcomes.
Engage diverse professionals to develop strategies to
meet specific needs.
Communicate with team members to clarify each
person’s responsibility.
Facilitate unique and complementary abilities of team
members to improve outcomes.
Listen actively and encourage ideas and opinions of
others.
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Place individual, population, and community
interest at the center of IP health and delivery.
Demonstrate high standards of ethical conduct
in service delivery.
Manage ethical dilemmas appropriate to IP
care situations.
Demonstrate competence in one's own.
profession within the context of IP care.
Develop a trusting relationship with others
(modified, CIHC, 2010).
Engage diverse professionals to develop strategies
to meet specific needs.
Participate in individual and team performance
improvement.
Forge interdependent relationships to improve IP
collaboration and advance learning.
Provide services that are safe, timely, efficient,
effective, and equitable.
Use team science to advance care and services that
are efficient, effective, and equitable.
Choose effective communication tools and
techniques to enhance team function.
Organize and communicate information in a manner
that is understandable.
Use respectful language.
Communicate the importance of teamwork in
patient-centered and community-focused care or
service delivery.
 Express one’s knowledge and opinions to team
Engage others in shared patient-, client-, or
community-centered problem solving.
Reflect on team performance and improvement
Apply leadership practices that support team
effectiveness.
Use process improvement strategies to increase the
effectiveness of IP teams.
Use available evidence to inform effective teamwork
and team-based practices.
Develop consensus on ethical principles to guide
teamwork.
 Integrate the knowledge and experience of
members to ensure common understanding of
decisions.
 Recognize how one's uniqueness contributes to
effective teamwork.
others to inform care decisions.
 Engage self /others to manage disagreements
that impact care and/or service outcomes.
 Use process improvement strategies to increase
the effectiveness of IP teams.
 Apply leadership practices that support
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
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Recognize that IP healthcare delivery
incudes individuals, populations, and
communities.
Embrace cultural diversity and individual
differences.
Respect the unique cultures, values, roles/
responsibilities, contributions, and
expertise of others.
Interprofessional Partnership and Collaborative Practice for Optimization of
Individual/ Population Health Outcomes
EXPOSURE: Introduction
PROCESS ASSESSMENT
Values/Ethics for
Interprofessional
Practice
BASELINE ASSESSMENT
IPEC CORE COMPETENCIES (IPEC, 2011)
Framework for the Development of Interprofessional Collaboration and Practice Competencies*
collaborative practice and team effectiveness.
 Engage in collaboration that supports
reconciliation of differing priorities.
REFLECTION IN AND ON ACTION ultimately leading to REFLECTION BEYOND ACTION
LEARNING CONTINUUM
Developed by the CIPHEP Advisory Board; Adapted from (c) University of Toronto, Centre for Interprofessional
Education: A Framework for the Development of Interprofessional Education Values and Core Competencies.
*Grounded in community engagement to address individual and population concerns related to Indiana state
health priorities. Framework language to be vetted through IU faculty groups.
IUSO Involvement in IPE
• IUSO has been represented in the:
– Development and adoption of an IPE Mission
Statement for Indiana University
– Strategic Planning Group for CIHEP
– Advisory Board of CIHEP
– Planning of IPE workshops on 2 campuses
– Ethics IPE pilot program
– Grand Rounds IPE pilot program
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IUSO Hosted the Bloomington Campus IPE
Grand Rounds Pilot
Event Description
Students from a variety of health science schools had the
opportunity to learn about, from, and with one another in a case-based
activity that explored the healthcare needs of a 22 year old graduate
student who suffered from a traumatic brain injury.
This pilot program gave students the opportunity to learn about
other health professions and see how health professionals work as a
team to improve patient care.
Collaborators: IU College of Arts and Sciences, IU School of Dentistry,
IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, IU School of Medicine,
IU School of Nursing, IU School of Optometry, IU School of Public Health
- Bloomington
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IUSO Interprofessional Practice
(IPP) On Campus Activities
• MLK Day Annual “Day of Service” – free care for
the uninsured (Speech & Hearing; Nursing)
• VA “Stand-Downs” in several communities
(with Nursing, Public Health, Dentistry)
• School screenings (Nursing)
• Vision Rehabilitation Clinic (Occupational
Therapy, Social Work)
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IUSO Interprofessional Practice
(IPP) Off Campus Activities
• Specific efforts are made to incorporate
collaboration and collaborative practice into
as many external rotation sites as possible
• Student interns have many opportunities to
observe and work with other health
care professionals at VA hospitals and
referral based practice centers
• IPP experiences are surveyed and evaluated
and tracked for all interns
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Plan for IPE and IPP at IUSO
• A grand rounds experience with multiple
other health care learners will be
incorporated in to the 1st and 2nd years
(Exposure Experience)
• A higher level simulation with multiple
health learners in the 2nd or 3rd year
(Immersion Experience)
• Increased IPP opportunities will be added
during the 3rd and 4th years
(Competence clinical practice experiences)
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