Longitudinal Survey on the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

IPR Global is pleased to announce the publication of its COVID-19 study protocol entitled “A longitudinal survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on interprofessional education and collaborative practice” in the Journal of Interprofessional Care.  The article can be accessed at the journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2020.1798901

As many countries are experiencing re-opening, the impact of the pandemic on healthcare has been unprecedented. It is widely accepted that healthcare education and practice, including interprofessional education and collaborative practice, has been and will continue to be affected in profound ways. However, the severity and extent of the impact is yet to be determined and is likely to vary internationally. This study is a first in its kind to systematically and globally capture the impact of COVID-19 on interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) which will allow to identify priorities for IPECP research and development in the years to come, as well as to inform future pandemic preparedness. The data collection is conducted on a quarterly basis for a period of 12 months to capture the rapidly evolving nature of the pandemic and its impact on IPECP. 

IPR Global invites faculty/educators, students, administration, providers, and policy makers to join us in taking this anonymous longitudinal COVID-19 IPECP impact survey at:

https://proxy.qualtrics.com/proxy/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.interprofessional.global%2Fcovid19-survey%2F&token=IZDEV8UobAvnHTGX33zW8JazVwBfp32vZGEwX2m0AFw%3D

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

Job Announcement - Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health

The Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative, in partnership with the University of Nebraska at Kearney, is proud to announce its Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health.

The Collaborative is a new organization whose mission is to facilitate cross-sector collaborations of diverse stakeholders optimizing health care delivery through teams that study and propose solutions to improve population health. This position is an endowed position and the individual will work with cross-sector partnerships on exciting population health research. The newly formed Cyber Systems Department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) is seeking applications from highly qualified candidates for a newly created position entitled the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health. The Chair will fulfill an integrative role within the University of Nebraska providing leadership, strategic planning, and advocacy in an effort to advance population health research, interprofessional education, and collaborative practice. 

The position represents a unique partnership with the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative, a division of Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII), and the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK). The Chair will work directly with the Chief Academic Program Officer of NEHII to establish an annual research agenda for population health, will oversee a budget and have access to a unique, comprehensive dataset designed to support this research agenda, and will serve on the Board of the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative. It is envisioned that the Chair’s population health research agenda will draw from new approaches in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data visualization aimed at analyzing large scale social, economic, and progressive healthcare data and resulting in translational research and practical solutions to a wide variety of issues related to population health. In general, data science advocacy across many domains is an important part of the position, as the Chair’s leadership will play a critical role in the growth of data science at UNK. 

The Chair will be part of the Cyber Systems Department and will support the data science curriculum for UNK’s College of Business and Technology (CBT). Currently CBT has programs accredited by AACSB, ATMAE, and CIDA, with significant progress toward ABET accreditation as well. 

Apply through this link: https://unk.peopleadmin.com/postings/3439

Applicants can email jdoll@nehii.org for more information.

Learn more about the Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative here: https://nehii.org/about/nebraska-healthcare-collaborative/

Book Chapter - The Resurgence of the Global Research Interprofessional Network

IPR.Global published a chapter, entitled The Resurgence of the Global Research Interprofessional Network in the book Sustainability and Interprofessional Collaboration: Ensuring Leadership Resilience in Collaborative Health Care, It describes the development of the Global Research Interprofessional Network (GRIN) and the In-2-Theory network from its origins. In this chapter, the journey to GRIN and In-2-Theory, the Resurgence of GRIN2Theory, the Drivers of Success, Network Sustainability and Resilience, and the Lessons Learned are discussed. Similar to other IPECP networks, sustainability remains a high priority for IPR.Global. It is therefore imperative that IPR.Global be innovative and offer something unique and of value. Lessons learned from our experience and from our scoping review on collaborative networks indicate that key factors for a sustainable interprofessional collaboration need to include a committed membership, the maintenance of dialogue, ensuring clarity, respecting diversity, and engagement in process/contextual factors. Relevance, buy-in and social capital for members are key principles for ensuring a sustainable network. IPR.Global will remain focused on global leadership in IPECP Research, as our practice, and will continue to promote and advocate for evidence-informed policies and practices. We foster and facilitate theory-driven, methodologically rigorous IPECP research to achieve better health, better care, better value and better work experience for all. 

Link to book web-page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-40281-5

For more information contact chapter author Dr. Hossein Khalili: hkhalili@wisc.edu

Effects of IPE program on interprofessional socialization and dual identity development

The effects of an IPS-based IPE program on interprofessional socialization and dual identity development - Journal of Interprofessional Care

Dr. Hossein Khalili and Dr. Carole Orchard recently published a paper in the Journal of Interprofessional Care reporting on the results of his study on testing the application of his original interprofessional socialization (IPS) framework in developing dual identity among learners. In this study, an IPE program developed based on the core concepts of the IPS framework was used. More than hundred students from seven different health professions participated in the IPS-based IPE intervention program. The outcome of the quasi-experimental portion of this mixed-method study demonstrated a significant and consistent growth in dual identity among the participants. The thematic analysis revealed four themes (uniprofessional education as a barrier, IPS program as an eye-opener, learning to collaborate, and collective unified team). The integrated qualitative and quantitative findings support the application of the IPS framework in creating dual (professional and interprofessional) identity among learners.

The article is available via this link:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13561820.2019.1709427

Dr. Khalili's contact email: hkhalili@wisc.edu

AIHC Names 2020-2021 Leadership Team

The American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) has identified its leadership team for the 2020-2021 academic year. 

AIHC Executive Committee

The Executive Committee monitors progress of AIHC strategic initiatives, oversees implementation of established policies, sets board agenda, liaison with National Center senior leadership.

Andrea Pfeifle - Chair, The Ohio State University

Gail Jensen - Past-Chair, Creighton University

Jim Ballard - Chair-Elect, University of Kentucky

Anthony Breitbach - Secretary-Historian, Saint Louis University

Christine Arenson - Ex-Officio

National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

Barbara Brandt - Ex-Officio

National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

AIHC Advisory Board

The AIHC Advisory Board serves at the “keeper of the field”; advises National Center director, directs work of committees in alignment with National Center priorities; exploration of strategic alignments.

Gail Jensen (Creighton University)

Andrea Pfeifle (The Ohio State University)

James Ballard (University of Kentucky)

Anthony Breitbach (Saint Louis University)

Amy Blue (University of Florida)

Joy Doll (Nebraska Health Information Initiative)

Heather Hageman (Washington University Medical Campus)

Kelly Lockeman (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Barbara Maxwell (A.T. Still University)

Jean Nagelkerk (Grand Valley State University)

Devin Nickol (University of Nebraska Medical Center)

Loretta Nunez (American Speech Language Hearing Association)

Elena Umland (Thomas Jefferson University)

Christine Arenson (National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, ex-officio)

Barbara Brandt (National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, ex-officio)

AIHC Committees

Program Committee 

The AIHC Program Committee focuses on generating new content based on identified gaps, resource curation to develop curated resources in the Resource Center and leverage existing resources as packaged content

Co-Chairs: Joy Doll and TBA

Interprofessional Scholarship Committee

The Interprofessional Scholarship Committee is a community of practice to support generation of scholarship along the continuum;  facilitate specific scholarly activities.

Co-Chairs: Mary Mauldin and Diane Bridges

Membership Committee 

The Membership Committee engages in strategic recruitment of new members with commitment toward diversity of the field, practice partners and students; selection of committee members, benefit articulation (current/future); and member levels.

Co-Chairs: Jim Ballard and Erin Breitenbach

Communication Committee

The Communication Committee is responsible for generation of member communications in coordination with content generation from committees.

Co-Chairs: Martha Sexton and Craig Slater

More information available on the AIHC website: https://aihc-us.org/

Dr. Giray Kolcu joins Süleyman Demirel University's Health Sciences Institution as Vice Director

Giray Kolcu, M.D., Assistant Professor, joined Süleyman Demirel University's Health Sciences Institution in Isparta, Turkey to become its Vice Director, effective July 23. 

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

• Establishing Interprofessional Education Board 
• Establishing interprofessional Education Department
• Starting Interprofessional Master's program 

This position marks Süleyman Demirel University's substantial commitment to advancing health sciences education and training and contributing to the global interprofessional practice and education community.

Dr. Kolcu can be contacted via email: giraykolcu@sdu.edu.tr

University of Montreal's Collaboration and Patient Partnership Unit's Pandemic Response Featured on The BMJ Opinion

The University of Montreal's Collaboration and Patient Partnership Department (DCPP) has the main objective of orchestrating a profound transformation of the philosophy and models of care and services from '' an innovative vision of the patient partnership that links patients and healthcare workers as part of the care and social services process. 

This program has transitioned to make a significant impact with the Covid-19 pandemic. 

This transition has recently been featured on July 21, 2020 by The BMJ Opinion:

Covid-19 and medical education: patients’ teaching role moves online  
Online teaching of medical students by patients during covid-19 is set to become the new norm
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/07/21/covid-19-and-medical-education-patients-teaching-role-moves-online/

To learn more about the University of Montreal's Collaboration and Patient Partnership Unit: 
https://medecine.umontreal.ca/faculte/direction-collaboration-partenariat-patient/

Center of Excellence on Partnerships with Patients and the Public home page:
https://ceppp.ca/en/

Newly published article in Journal of Interprofessional Care:
Raynault, A., Lebel, P., Brault, I., Vanier, M.-C., & Flora, L. (2020). How interprofessional teams of students mobilized collaborative practice competencies and the patient partnership approach in a hybrid IPE course. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 1-12. doi:10.1080/13561820.2020.1783217
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13561820.2020.1783217?journalCode=ijic20