Cathy
Poon,
BS, PharmD, FPPA, FCPP
Professor, Department Chair, and Associate Dean of Interprofessional Education
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences
Cathy Poon, BS, PharmD, FPPA, FCPP, is an endowed full professor, Department Chair of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Administration and Associate Dean of Interprofessional Education at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences. Although Cathy’s formalized training is in pediatric pharmacy practice, she transformed her passion for collaborative patient care experiences while on a pediatric team, to now devoting majority of her time serving as a mentor for all levels of learners/educators, with an emphasis on interprofessional education and practice. Under Cathy’s leadership, her team has received several interprofessional education grants and received the 2020 USPHS IPEC Award and 2020 AACP Excellence in Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Award.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The majority of health outcomes are due to factors such as housing, income, poverty, and racism, referred to as social determinants of health (SDOH). Virtual interprofessional education (V-IPE) student experiences are time-constrained, with most focusing on objective criteria and evidence-based practice (known as an “etic” approach), while not teaching an “emic,” patient-centered approach of understanding health issues from the patient’s perspective. Aims include: 1. Integrate SDOH into a V-IPE case to incorporate population health variables for a patient-centered, holistic experience. 2. Use…
Interprofessional Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (iACLS), a simulation-based certification program for medical, nursing, and pharmacy students, is a component of the longitudinal interprofessional education (IPE) curricula at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and School of Nursing and University of the Sciences’ Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. ACLS is a team-based strategy to optimize survival in patients with life-threatening cardiac emergencies. Since resuscitation teams are by necessity interprofessional, emergency cardiovascular care is an ideal setting…
Interprofessional education is required by many healthcare professional program accreditation standards. Many independent institutions with limited healthcare programs and those not affiliated with a medical center are often challenged with meeting IPE accreditation requirements. Some of the challenges encountered developing and planning interprofessional experiences include identifying collaborators, determining the healthcare professions and level of studies, agreeing on common learning outcomes and logistics such as date, space, learning management systems.
The goal of this seminar is to…
Background, including statement of problem, and aims
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University has historically collaborated with Rutgers University Schools of Social Work, Nursing and Law to provide interprofessional education. The pandemic provided a challenge as well as an opportunity for collaboration with Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences, to create a virtual interprofessional experience for learners at various levels of education. This experience was developed to introduce interprofessional education (IPE) concepts early in healthcare education.
Design or…