Rationale/Background: To increase access to and quality of care for homeless veterans, a structure including Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) regional teams (Social Work, Nursing, Psychology) and Housing Resource Groups (HRGs) was developed to provide coordinated assistance in the communities where veterans reside.Methods. 1) Evaluation of homeless veteran attendance. A measure of weekly HRGs attendance (2010-2015) was tabulated for veterans across three regions. The measure was…

o The purpose of this presentation is to share an innovative modifiable educational method developed for interprofessional learning applicable to healthcare students and healthcare professionals alike. This method of education incorporates simulation and technology and can be used for both live and synchronous distance accessible education. To address an identified learning need while also incorporating interprofessional education for healthcare students an educational platform was…

The Interprofessional Identity Program (IPIP) was created to provide a longitudinal setting for nursing and medical students to learn about each other and consider their professional identities as members of interprofessional health care teams. The curriculum was predominantly student led and presented virtually, and considered the aspects of teamwork, resilience, critical consciousness, and workplace culture. IPIP included four sessions held via Zoom between January and April 2021.…

Each year, over 1000 students from multiple professions undergo Team Safety and Fearlessness Education (TeamSAFE) training through Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. Based on TeamSTEPPS, TeamSAFE focuses on teaching and practicing interprofessional teamwork skills with the goal of addressing the quadruple aim: improved patient safety, improved patient and provider experience, and subsequently, reduced costs. Because of the global pandemic, these previously live…

Each year, the Graduate College at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) hosts the Graduate Research Education and Technology (GREAT) Symposium, which provides graduate students and postdoctoral trainees the opportunity to present individual research and engage with the campus community. In addition to the traditional oral and poster presentations, the 2021 GREAT Symposium was expanded to include an all new team presentation event, the GREAT Debate. Two teams comprised of…

As interprofessional education shifted to virtual platforms this past year, challenges of engaging students and encouraging cross-role collaboration arose. Student input was sought out to guide the development of an activity that would serve as the cumulation of a four-session interprofessional education core thread. Adapting a model of faculty and student curriculum co-design, we created a timely problem-based learning activity that was relevant to all health professions: students would be…

American healthcare is increasingly expensive and inefficient, making it ripe for innovation. Despite the interprofessional nature of healthcare, professional training in each field is mainly independent of other professions. Moreover, our current UTHealth curricula lack the opportunity for students from all six schools (medical, nursing, dentistry, biomedical science, biomedical informatics, and public health) to collaborate over an extended period. To bridge this gap, we created the…