Shelley
Smith,
MEd
Director of Interprofessional Education
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Shelley Smith is the Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She also directs the Quality Enhancement Plan, IPE2Practice" that promotes clinical, community, and research in IPE. Smith serves on the institution's IPE Core Curriculum Task force. She is an active member of the Texas IPE Consortium and AIHC.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Digital badging allows students and faculty to showcase their interprofessional skills on social media, CVs, and professional networks. These electronic symbols are micro-credentials to document IPEP achievement and mastered skills. The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) initiated interprofessional digital badges to promote, reward, and track interprofessional involvement. The system is directly linked to our institution's IPEP core curriculum and IPEP registry that serves as a repository for approved IPEP activities. Students from our four schools (Medicine, Nursing, Health…
The University of Texas Medical Branch has worked to integrate interprofessional education into our curricula across health professions student early learners. Through our strategic planning process , we identified the approach called T.E.A.M.S. (Team–Based Care & Interprofessional Education, Engagement with Stakeholders, Advanced Simulation–Based Education, Modern Technology & Innovation, Sustainability). We have applied these strategies in development of our core IPE curriculum. This curriculum will describe an approach and model that could be used by others to enhance…
All in-person Standardized Patient (SP) activities were suspended throughout the height of COVID-19. UTMB still had a large student body who needed simulation and clinical experiences. This provided the Health Education Center (HEC) & the School of Health Professions (SHP) an opportunity to utilize virtual SP encounters in education for enhancing interprofessional collaborative care. UTMB HEC and SHP used an innovative strategy to bring 5 disciplines together to perform a full patient interview, formulate an interprofessional plan of care and deliver this information back to the patient;…