Laura
Smith,
PT, DPT, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Michigan-Flint
Dr. Laura Smith is an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Michigan-Flint. Dr. Smith has tremendous experience in operationalizing the content, delivery and assessment of IPE curriculum. Her IPE research interests include introductory experiential opportunities, faculty mentoring, and professional socialization. Dr. Smith has been the recipient of several team and individual awards for her contributions to IPE.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Team based care is the hallmark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s recommendation for patient centered medical homes, which inspires quality, cultivates patient engagement, and improves costs. While the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality suggests that team training improves patient care and safety, training often continues to be largely inadequate. The challenge then is how to create opportunities for “teamness” or “collaborative competence” (Earnest, 2016) to occur and provide a context where skills such as team work, leadership, roles and responsibilities, group…
Learning Objectives: The learner will...
Understand details of a specific model for implementation of a patient advisor-centered framework for student IPE learning and evaluation
Evaluate the value-added of authentic patient-advisor engagement in IPE learning for students, academic institutions and patients as well as potential barriers
Apply this model of patient engagement in IPE to individual systems and settings and leave the session with a beginning plan of next steps for application of this model in their setting/community
Seminar description
Existing literature describing IPE…
Background Previous IPE interventions have been limited to one-time/short-term experiences due to the feasibility of planning and cost-effectiveness. Few reports on introductory experiential learning exist leaving questions on the best format and outcome measures; hence, LIFE was developed. LIFE is a virtual longitudinal experiential approach to prepare early learners outside of the classroom with a foundation of the socioecological model(SEM) and social determinants of health(SDH). Learners collaboratively explored the impact of the patient/family’s interface with the health-system and…