Team based care is the hallmark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s recommendation for patient centered medical homes, which inspires quality, cultivates patient engagement, and improves costs. While the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality suggests that team training improves patient care and safety, training often continues to be largely inadequate. The challenge then is how to create opportunities for “teamness” or “collaborative competence” (Earnest, 2016) to occur and provide a context where skills such as team work, leadership, roles and responsibilities, group communication, and team problem solving can be taught and experienced. Adventure Based Learning (ABL), which is closely related to Problem-based learning, can serve as a vehicle for providing innovative tools for teaching team skill development (Eshach & Bitterman, 2003; Stuher, Sutherland, Ressler, & Ortiz-Stuher, 2016; Albanese & Mitchell, 1993).
Many instructional approaches fall short of providing challenge, experience, and adequate team context for developing adequate skills. ABL is an experiential approach to instruction with deliberate use of sequential activities, such as games, initiative activities, and problem solving tasks that intentionally provide opportunities for individuals to experience themselves within a functioning team, and to develop team skills. ABL strips away the technical aspects of patient care to allow for focus and attention to be given on team skills themselves that can then be translated across settings and situations. The aim of this workshop is to provide active participation in ABL, in which the audience in invited to experience being a part of a team and walking through a curriculum that has been utilized for interprofessional education and team skill development. Participants will be exposed to a theoretical overview of ABL and will leave with innovative teaching tools and strategies that can be applied in developing and strengthening their own curriculum for team based care or interprofessional education.
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (OICPD). The OICPD is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the OICPD is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The OICPD maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians: The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Nurses: Participants will be awarded contact hours of credit for attendance at this workshop.
Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: This activity is approved for contact hours.
Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change
