Joseph
Zorek,
PharmD, BCGP, FNAP
Director, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, FNAP is Director of UT Health San Antonio's Quality Enhancement Plan and Associate Professor with Tenure in the School of Nursing. His research in interprofessional education is widely cited and has been recognized with national and international awards. Joe co-authored the HPAC-National Center consensus guideline "Guidance on Developing Quality Interprofessional Education for the Health Professions," and was recently selected to serve on the 23-member working group to revise the IPEC core competencies. Joe’s latest scholarly project, a textbook titled “Interprofessional Practice in Pharmacy: Featuring Illustrated Case Studies,” was published by McGraw-Hill Education in March 2021.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Although interprofessional education (IPE) is seen as a prerequisite to collaborative practice that improves health outcomes (World Health Organization, 2010), best practices regarding development, implementation, and assessment of IPE remain elusive. This uncertainty is due, in part, to inconsistencies in reporting within the IPE literature. Determining the effectiveness of a social or behavioral intervention like IPE requires reproducibility, replicability and generalizability of findings (National Science Foundation, 2015).
Systematic reviews of the IPE literature have noted limited…
Background: The Quality Enhancement Plan at UT Health San Antonio, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), serves as the institutional blueprint for transforming campus-wide interprofessional education (IPE). A key component of this plan includes cultivating knowledge and skills in faculty and staff to increase IPE opportunities for learners. The LINC Faculty and Staff Development Program was launched in Fall 2020 to achieve this goal. Design/Methodology: This program included three synchronous online workshops. The first workshop provided a broad overview of IPE…
Interprofessional case competitions have been used nationally for many years to advance interprofessional education (IPE). The CLARION competition at the University of Minnesota serves as an exemplary model that has been adopted across the country. Such competitions afford teams of health professional students an experiential opportunity to apply knowledge and skills about teamwork acquired through didactic IPE experiences, as a co-curricular (i.e., experiences outside formal curricula) event incentivized by monetary prizes and university-wide recognition. Drawing inspiration from CLARION and…
This Lightning Talk will highlight a university-wide series of online interprofessional education (IPE) modules completed synchronously without direct involvement of faculty facilitators. 977 first-year students representing 26 educational programs participated in interprofessional groups of 3-4 in a self-directed manner using just learner guides. Multiple modalities facilitated engagement, including interprofessional socialization exercises, mini-lectures augmented with video vignettes, and novel illustrated and video case studies. Illustrated cases featured professionally rendered artwork…