Lark
Ford,
PhD, RN, MA, MSN
Associate Professor/Clinical
School of Nursing, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Lark A. Ford joined the nursing faculty at the UT Health San Antonio in the fall of 2006. She is a supporter of inter-professional education. Since 2009, Lark worked with her interprofessional colleagues on a research project entitled the “RESPECT Project. The project (Realizing Enhanced Student Inter-Professional Education through Clinical Teamwork) program was designed whereby medical, dental, dental hygienist and nursing students work in interprofessional teams while serving an underserved community in San Antonio. Since fall 2018, Lark has been the Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC) Faculty Council member for the School of Nursing.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
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…