Inclusion of imaging students in a meaningful interprofessional education experience on the UAMS campus has been a challenge since the curriculum’s inception in 2015. Representation of sonography students exists within the curriculum, but often times imaging students struggle to feel like an essential component of the health care team.At UAMS we have the 12th Street Health and Wellness Center (12th Street HWC), a student-run, interprofessional, free clinic where students from all five…

The COVID-19 pandemic led health systems to increasingly rely on telehealth for patient care. Despite rapidly changing clinical and regulatory environments, most healthcare providers and students were not equipped with formal training in telehealth-specific skills. With support from the American Medical Association, we convened an interprofessional team of clinicians and student leaders from UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke to develop a virtual interprofessional telehealth curriculum. The curriculum…

Every January since 2006 at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), first and second-year students come together to participate in an annual event called Interprofessional Day, designed to further develop a culture of collaborative teamwork and improve patient care and safety. Typically, students break into 70 - 80 pre-assigned interprofessional student groups that meet in locations across campus. Faculty and staff volunteers work with students to facilitate specific activities. In…

The 7th Annual IPE Day 2021 at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) involved all eight campuses, including, Puerto Rico, and just under 2,000 students from over twenty healthcare professions. This lightning talk will showcase innovative technology-driven interprofessional learning, using the online setting due to COVID, to deliver virtual simulations to facilitate IPE. The interprofessional planning team of twelve staff and faculty from multiple professions ensured that in the virtual setting…

Learning disruptions are increasingly common in higher education. From the COVID-19 pandemic emerged enduring lessons about how to effectively utilize technology to facilitate interprofessional (IP) learning and support mastery of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) core competencies. Instructional delivery changes necessitated by the pandemic required a team of Binghamton University IP faculty to adapt an in-person poverty simulation for nursing, pharmacy, public health,…