Dr. Andrea Pfeifle Named Associate Vice Chancellor for Interprofessional Practice and Education at The Ohio State University

 

Andrea Pfeifle, EdD, PT, FNAP, joined Ohio State's seven health sciences colleges and the Wexner Medical Center to become its first Associate Vice Chancellor for Interprofessional Practice and Education, effective July 1. 

Dr. Pfeifle will lead strategic priorities across the university, to include: 

• establishing an office to support interprofessional practice and education
• facilitating exemplary interprofessional practice and learning environments
• testing new models of team care to prepare students to work together to advance health and well-being. 

This newly created position marks Ohio State's substantial commitment to advancing collaborative health and social sciences education and training and contributing to the global interprofessional practice and education community.

Dr. Pfeifle can be contacted via email: Andrea.Pfeifle@osumc.edu

Journal of Interprofessional Care Article Addresses the Implications of Transitioning IPE to Virtual Environments

Online interprofessional education during and post the COVID-19 pandemic

Hossein Khalili, BScN, MScN, PhD, FNAP
Director, University of Wisconsin Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE)

Dr. Khalili has just published a Commentary in the COVID Special Issue of the Journal of Interprofessional Care. In this Online IPE during and post the COVID-19 pandemic commentary paper, Dr. Khalili discussed the conundrum that the pandemic has posed to many. Educators/facilitators are expected to employ online education, but some may lack the knowledge and expertise to create and facilitate an engaging, positive, and supportive online environment for their students. IPE itself is quite complex and challenging for many educators as in IPE we are working with diverse students’ population who come with different professional backgrounds, knowledge, skills and experience, while many of them may have preconceived notions and prejudices against each other. Adding another layer of complexity to this equation by fully transitioning IPE into a virtual environment is indeed a further challenge. This report discusses the application of Meaningful Discourse and the Community of Inquiry principles on developing online learning communities in interprofessional education.

You can access to the article here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2020.1792424

For more information, contact Dr. Khalili:
hkhalili@wisc.edu

CAIPE Research Group Publishes a Research Guide for Students and Early Career Researchers

Top Tips for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Research: A Guide for Students and Early Career Researchers
By: Dr. Veronica O'Carroll (CAIPE and University of St Andrews)

Members of the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) research group have written this guide to aid students and early career researchers embarking on their first research journey and new to IPE/ICP research. The CAIPE research group includes research students, service users, researchers with varied experiences, and educators and practitioners from different professions and countries. The guide aims to raise awareness of academic resources and share practical advice from those who have previously experienced problems when undertaking interprofessional research in education or health and social care practice.

Access the article here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2020.1777092

For more information email Dr. O'Carroll:
vo1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Interprofessional Research.Global Updates Blog

InterprofessionalResearch.Global has developed a blog to foster communication among its members across the world.  InterprofessionalResearch.Global Updates serves as a real-time newsletter and provides a means for members to share important news, events, calls for proposals and other information. These posts all have dedicated URL's and they are easy to share on social media.

To provide content for IPR.Global members use this SUBMISSION LINK

Please have the following items ready for your post:

1. Post topic/title
2. 1-3 paragraph post narrative
3. Photo or logo for the post

The blog editors will then post into the blog and send you the link before it is disseminated widely.

If the post needs revision, changes can easily be made.

Contact Dr. Anthony Breitbach for more information:

anthony.breitbach@health.slu.edu

Nominations Sought for AIHC Awards

The  American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) Scholarship Committee, in conjunction with the AIHC Scholarship Awards Subcommittee, would like to announce a call for nomination for 5 (five) AIHC awards.

The awards are: 

1. AIHC Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
2. AIHC Interprofessional Practice Award
3. AIHC  Scholarship Award
4. AIHC Interprofessional Educator Award
5. AIHC Student Award for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

Nominations forms/packets will be accepted until June 30, 2020. (We will accept past this date.)

Attached are the award descriptions, selection criteria, assessment rubrics and  nomination forms.

The AIHC Scholarship Awards Subcommittee will review all nominations and select an award recipient who will be recognized at one of the national IPE conferences, such as the Nexus Summit or Collaborations Across Borders.

For more information, including nomination forms email: diane.bridges@rosalindfranklin.edu.

IPR.Global Best Research Award Application Is Open!

The IPR.Global Best Research Awards recognize interprofessional scholarly works that exemplify excellence in the following:

The Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award – The Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award will recognize an academic – practice partnership team that demonstrates impact on learner and health outcomes through sustaining and connecting interprofessional education and collaborative practice in community-based practice settings serving vulnerable and high-risk populations.

The Hugh Barr Global Award – The Hugh Barr IPR.Global Award will recognize the evaluation/project by an interprofessional team of an outstanding example of collaboration between institutions/organizations in high-income and low/middle-income countries to promote and sustain interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

The John H.V. Gilbert Global Award – The John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Award will recognize an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation that has resulted in a learning paradigm which brings interprofessional education and learning to interprofessional collaborative practice in a clinical setting where practitioners, students and patients have been engaged in developing measurable interprofessional high quality care.

The awards aim at recognizing and honoring the innovative interprofessional partnership, projects or research that has demonstrated a positive impact on the academic/practice/community with a notable contribution to the interprofessional education and collaborative practice field.

To learn more and apply, please review the 2020 IPR.Global Best Research Awards Application Guidelines: https://research.interprofessional.global/2020bestresearchawards/