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Current UW IPE Offerings

Current UW IPE Offerings

Find out more about the UW CIPE Competency Modules, upcoming IPE course offerings, and previous offerings

UW CIPE Badger Program

In line with the UW CIPE 2019-2024 Strategic Directions and as part of the UW CIPE Education Strategic Priority, the UW Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE) has established its Badger Program.

 As a branch of the UW–Madison Canvas Credentials, the UW CIPE Badger Program provides focused interprofessional practice and education (IPE) academic training with fewer academic requirements than a typical degree and/or certificate program. Through the UW CIPE Badger Program, we recognize and award formal digital Badges to learners who participate in and successfully complete designated IPE offerings and activities at UW–Madison and its partners.

 Each IPE Badge, provided through the UW CIPE Badger Program, consists of a specified set of academic training and/or experiences that focuses on different aspects of interprofessional practice and education in healthcare to advance Quintuple Aim (better care, better health, better value, better work experience, and better health equity). Successful completion of an IPE badge signifies the achievement of competence in the specified domain and is recognized by the awarding of a digital badge (an official award) from UW CIPE. Completion of IPE Badges approved by the UW CIPE Badger Program will also be counted towards the UW IPE Path of Distinction at UW–Madison.

 The IPE Badges serve as virtual credentials that can be showcased via personal profile, social media (LinkedIn, Facebook,…), and shared with potential employers as a way to help you articulate the skills you have gained from completing the badge criteria.

  Please note: The badging service through UW–Madison has recently undergone a transition from UW–Madison "Badgr" Badges, (prior to Fall 2022), to the current Canvas Credentials, (post Fall 2022). As is such, there are two links below with all of the UW CIPE Badges that have been awarded.

Here is the list of IPE Badges offered by UW CIPE:

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AHEC Scholar Badge

The AHEC Scholar Badge is awarded by UW CIPE to state-wide students who successfully complete the WI AHEC Scholar Program, recognizing students’ gained knowledge, skills, and leadership in becoming interprofessional practitioners.

AHEC Scholars who have received this credential have successfully demonstrated competencies outlined below, as verified by cohort Course Directors through a pre/post assessment tool for each competency area:

  • Describe the responsibilities of other professionals (health care and others) on the health team
  • Demonstrate how the skills and knowledge of interprofessional team members complement and overlap
  • Describe how social determinants affect the health of a community or a population (e.g. equity, income, education, environment, etc.)
  • Use common public health methods that prevent or address health issues in vulnerable populations
  • Reflect on and describe perceptions/biases of individuals who are from different professional or cultural backgrounds
  • Respond appropriately to the needs of others based on a sensitivity to, and respect for, their cultural/ethnic background or socioeconomic status
  • Describe how a patient’s behavioral/mental health needs may affect their care
  • Describe the importance of integrating behavioral health and primary care
  • Advocate for the health care needs of a community based on current policy trends (system, local, state, or national level)
  • Demonstrate leadership skills (e.g. effectively communicate, inspire others, resolve conflict, accept feedback, etc.)
  • Work collaboratively with patients, communities, or other health professionals
  • Increase awareness of Wisconsin’s current and emerging health issues
  • Identify and share quality sources of information to stay abreast of the latest in health and health care
  • Utilize the knowledge and skills gained from the AHEC Scholars Program to provide health care in a rural, medically underserved, or vulnerable population

Learn more about the AHEC Scholars program and application information here: https://ahec.wisc.edu/scholars/

IPE CHHE Empathy Program

Those who have earned the UW CIPE Badger IPE CHHE Empathy Program Badge are equipped with the knowledge and skills to practice empathy and cultural humility in their health professions. Badge earners are exposed to content and activities emphasizing cultural humility, health equity, empathy, current topics related to health care, mitigating health disparities and provider bias, and minimizing misunderstandings towards those with identities different from one’s own.

Completing the requirements and assessments for this badge verifies those who have earned it are equipped with the skills needed to mitigate health disparities that may arise from bias and misunderstanding. They have attended a 5-week program, engaged in thoughtful dialogue, intentionally integrate relevant concepts into their practice, and reflected on their learning. Those who have earned this badge have been evaluated by a qualified UW-Madison instructor through activities and performance for the successful demonstration of these abilities:

  • Discuss elements of patient care, population/community health, providers’ well-being, and promoting health equity.
  • Analyze differences in experiences shared by others in session discussions.
  • Examine weekly program topics (that include Biases; Racial Wealth Disparities and Poverty; Gender and Sexuality; Race and Body Image in the Media; Mental Health, Wellbeing, & Happiness) by partaking in self and group reflection.
  • Maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.
  • Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address health outcomes.
  • Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
  • Apply values and principles of team science to adapt one’s role in a variety of team settings.

If you are interested in earning this badge, please reach out to UW CIPE at cipe@wisc.edu to inquire about the next offering of this programing.

IPE Clinical & Community Badge

The IPE Clinical & Community Badge is awarded by UW CIPE to students who successfully participate in and complete an IPE Clinical & Community Placement Experience.

Earners of the IPE Clinical & Community Badge have successfully demonstrated that they are collaborative and practice-ready to lead IPE efforts in promoting the Quintuple aim (better health, better care, better value, better work experience, and better health equity) through a virtual orientation, check-in, and debrief session and reflective journaling evaluated by a qualified UW-Madison instructor, in addition to satisfying the following learning outcomes:

  • Develop competence in working with individuals of other professions to maintain a climate of mutual respect and shared values (IPEC, 2016).
  • Develop competence in using the knowledge of own role and those of other professions to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of patients and to promote and advance the health of populations (IPEC, 2016).
  • Develop competence in communicating with patients, families, communities, and professionals in health and other fields in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion and maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease (IPEC, 2016).
  • Develop competence in applying the relationship-building values and the principles of team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient/population-centered care and population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable (IPEC, 2016).
  • Become an interprofessional practitioner through developing/enhancing a simultaneous sense of belonging to own profession and the interprofessional team/community – also known as Dual Profession and the Interprofessional Identity Development (Khalili, 2020; HPAC, 2019).

If you are interested in earning this badge, please reach out to UW CIPE at cipe@wisc.edu to inquire about the next offering of this programing.

IPE Fundamental Badge

The IPE Fundamental Badge is awarded to learners who complete the four UW CIPE Competency Modules, including: Interprofessional Teamwork, Interprofessional Communication, Interprofessional Values and Ethics, and Interprofessional Roles and Responsibilities.

Students who have received this credential have successfully demonstrated their basic knowledge and skills towards the competencies outlined below, as verified by UW CIPE through a their systematic evaluative assessment:

  • Competency 1: Work with individuals of other professions to maintain a climate of mutual respect and shared values. (Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice)
  • Competency 2: Use the knowledge of one’s own role and those of other professions to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of patients and to promote and advance the health of populations. (Roles/Responsibilities)
  • Competency 3: Communicate with patients, families, communities, and professionals in health and other fields in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion and maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease. (Interprofessional Communication)
  • Competency 4: Apply relationship-building values and the principles of team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient/population-centered care and population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable. (Teams and Teamwork)

Learn more about the UW CIPE Interprofessional Competency Modules and sign-up to participate in upcoming modules to earn this badge here: https://cipe.wisc.edu/education/#modules

IPE Leadership Badge

The IPE Leadership Badge requires learners to serve in progressive leadership (and facilitator) roles in two or more of the following IPE leadership opportunities:

  • (Co)Organizing/Facilitating one or more UW CIPE Knowledge Exchange Series (KES);
  • (Co)Facilitating (or serve as a Student Group Leader in) one or more UW CIPE Competency Modules;
  • Serving as Officer/Board Member of an IPE-Related Student Organization;
  • Serving as an active member of an IPE-related Committee/Taskforce/ Summit/Conference;
  • Participating and providing constructive feedback in IPE pilot offerings.

If you are interested in earning this badge, please reach out to UW CIPE at cipe@wisc.edu to inquire about upcoming opportunities to earn this badge.

IPE Motivational Interviewing Badge

Earners of the IPE Motivational Interviewing Badge have successfully demonstrated knowledge and skills of motivational interviewing through simulated practice and direct feedback of small and large group practice, video, didactic discussion and modeling evaluated by a qualified UW Madison instructor, in addition to satisfying the following learning outcomes:

  • Discuss the importance of having MI skills and knowledge across a range of professions
  • Define your own role in helping people resolve ambivalence
  • Describe MI in the context of your profession and the interprofessional team
  • Apply MI skills in interprofessional case scenarios

More about the Motivational Interviewing Preconference:

This interactive IPE Motivational Interviewing (MI) Preconference workshop created a rich learning environment for the reinforcement of the common processes of MI. An interprofessional/interdisciplinary team of facilitators bolstered participants’ confidence in the use of MI through introspection, small and large group practice, video, didactic discussion and modeling. Participants worked across professions to bring their respective training, expertise and anticipated use of MI to collaboratively apply the skills and style so they can take what they have learned and bring this training into their future practice. Motivational Interviewing is a communication approach that can be effectively applied in many healthcare professional settings. Healthcare professionals, in any area of service, are likely to encounter people who might be reluctant to embrace change in their behaviors, thoughts, and attitudes. Everyone on a health/social care team can benefit from learning and incorporating this skill into their interprofessional practice.

If you are interested in earning this badge, please reach out to UW CIPE at cipe@wisc.edu to inquire about the next offering of this programing.

IPE Simulation Badge- ADICS

The IPE ADICS Simulation Badge is awarded to learners who successfully complete the Advanced Dementia Interprofessional Clinical Simulation, (ADICS) Mini-Course. During this course students will learn about the 3Ds (depression, delirium, and dementia); apply interprofessional collaborative skills to a complex patient’s post-op discharge situation; review and interpret results from cognitive and functional tests and measures; and use professional and interprofessional knowledge integration in developing an interprofessional collaborative care plan for the patient with dementia and the caregiver. The Badge will recognize students’ skills in interprofessional team-based care competencies, (IPEC, 2016), promoting a client/patient-centered approach, and applying inter/professional knowledge in providing quality care and services to people living with dementia as assessed by a qualified UW CIPE instructor.

Students who have received this credential have successfully demonstrated their basic knowledge and skills towards the competencies outlined below, as verified by UW CIPE through a their systematic evaluative assessment:

  • Competency 1:Demonstrate Values and Ethics for Interprofessional Practice
  • Competency 2: Utilizing Roles and Responsibilities for Collaborative Practice
  • Competency 3: Implementing Interprofessional Communication Practices
  • Competency 4: Applying Interprofessional Teamwork and Team-based Practice
  • Competency 5: Developing a personalized approach to promoting client/patient-centered approach in health/social care delivery
  • Competency 6: Using professional knowledge in caring for people living with dementia

Learn more about this IPE offering, which is a part of the IPE Healthy Aging Initiative, and sign-up to participate in this programing to earn this badge here: https://cipe.wisc.edu/education/#IPEhealthyaging

IPL Dementia Caregiving Badge

Earners of the IPL Dementia Caregiving Badge have successfully demonstrated knowledge and skills of interprofessional teamwork, collaboration, leadership, and communication through quizzes, self-assessment survey instruments and a capstone project evaluated by a qualified UW Madison instructor, in addition to satisfying the following learning outcomes during the IPL Community Dementia Caregiving (IPLCDC) learning opportunity:

  1. Demonstrate understanding of the unique challenges family caregivers of people with dementia experience in maintaining their own health.
  2. Illustrate knowledge and expertise in identifying needed and customized community resources (e.g. health and wellness, nutrition, stress management resources, etc.) for family and caregivers to support caregivers of people living with dementia.
  3. Practice interprofessional collaborative skills through creating an interprofessional, client customized community-based resource document for caregivers of and people living with dementia.

The IPLCDC is a virtual community practicum in which interprofessional teams of students work collaboratively with each other and with an assigned family caregiver of a patient with dementia, a dementia care specialist (DCS), and a faculty facilitator to develop a customized community resource packet and a collaborative health promotion plan (as a Capstone Project) for the caregiver. 

Learn more about this IPE offering, which is a part of the IPE Healthy Aging Initiative, and sign-up to participate in this programing to earn this badge here: https://cipe.wisc.edu/education/#IPEhealthyaging

 

Use the links below to explore all of the UW CIPE Badges that have been awarded through the UW CIPE Badger Program

UW IPE PoD

UW IPE Path of Distinction Program (UW IPE PoD)

In alignment with the UW CIPE 2019-2024 Strategic Directions, and in an effort to award distinction at graduation for students with special interest in interprofessional practice and education (IPE), the UW Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE), in collaboration with its program/school partners, is establishing the UW IPE Path of Distinction Program (UW IPE PoD). The UW IPE PoD is awarded by UW CIPE to health/social care program students who complete a two-year longitudinal IPE program, as detailed below, to gain knowledge and skills in interprofessional competencies, and to become interprofessional practitioners as future healthcare team members and leaders. IPE is widely recognized as a roadmap toward improving the patient care experience, improving the health of communities and populations, reducing the cost of healthcare delivery, improving the work experience of healthcare professionals, and improving healthy equity - known as the ‘Quintuple Aim’.

Requirements

The UW IPE PoD Program provides students with opportunities to advance their IPE learning, practice, leadership, and research towards becoming interprofessional practitioners through didactics, experiential learning, and clinical/community placements that supplements their program-specific education. The UW IPE PoD Application is open year-round and upon acceptance students can start working on UW IPE PoD requirements right away. Students must be in good academic standing with their program and sign a letter of attestation to agree to this policy in the application process. Students must remain in good academic standing while completing the UW IPE PoD requirements. As a note, upon acceptance the student participants will "officially" join their UW IPE PoD cohort the next closest fall semester. In order to receive the UW IPE PoD award at graduation, student participants must remain in good academic standing within their program and must complete and satisfy the following requirements by April 1 of the year of graduation:

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IPE Learning

IPE Foundation:

IPE Designated Course:

IPE Simulation:

IPE Clinical/Community Placement/s:

  • Complete 10 hours (intentional/facilitated) designated IPE Clinical/Community Placement OR
  • Complete one IPE Practice Badge

IPE Leadership

Complete a combination of two leadership activities and/ or IPE Leadership Badges through the following leadership activities:

IPE Project

IPE Scholarly Work
• Develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate an IPE-related project to advance the Quintuple Aim OR
• Integrate IPE Scholarly Work into the currently established projects OR
• Completing an IPE Scholarship Badge

Final IPE Reflection and Knowledge Sharing

Students will reflect on their learning by sharing their knowledge and skills gained from their interprofessional journey through their engagement in the UW IPE PoD Program.

It is suggested that students can make this a dual-purpose knowledge share so that they can also use this for residency applications and/ or future professional employment applications.  A short video, narrated slides, or a digital poster would be most useful for a dual-purpose knowledge share.  Students may also complete a 2-3 page written reflection.

Application is Open

The UW IPE PoD Application is open year round and upon acceptance students can start working on UW IPE PoD requirements right away. As a note, upon acceptance the student participants will “officially” join their UW IPE PoD cohort the next closest fall semester.

Applications for the official start of the next cohort are due by Monday 11/25/24.

Contact cipe@wisc.edu with any questions.

UW–Madison professional students in Genetic Counseling, Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy,  Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Public Health, Social Work, and Veterinary Medicine are eligible to apply.

To learn more, you can review the UW IPE PoD Brochure, or join us in one of the following UW IPE PoD Info Sessions.

UW IPE PoD Info Sessions

Please sign up to join us for our upcoming virtual info sessions using the links below:

Monday 9/30 from 12:15-12:45 pm

Monday 9/30 from 5:30-6 pm

Please reach out to UW CIPE at cipe@wisc.edu if you are unable to attend one of these info sessions and would like to learn more!

UW IPE Path of Distinction Program Resources

Competency Modules

Facilitators Lacey Alexander (Nursing), Beth Fields (Occupational Therapy) and Beth Martin (Pharmacy) during ITCM Fall 2023
Facilitators Lacey Alexander (Nursing), Beth Fields (Occupational Therapy) and Beth Martin (Pharmacy) during ITCM Fall 2023
Students participating in small group discussions during ITCM Fall 2023
Students participating in small group discussions during ITCM Fall 2023

IPE Offerings

UW CIPE Competency Modules

UW CIPE in collaboration with our schools/program partners have developed the following 4 competency modules based on the Interprofessional Practice Collaborative (IPEC) Competency Domains:

  • Interprofessional Teamwork

  • Interprofessional Communication

  • Interprofessional Values and Ethics

  • Interprofessional Roles and Responsibilities

UW CIPE acknowledges that achieving competence in collaborative practice is a complex, developmental, life-long learning process. That being said, each UW CIPE Module targets one Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) core competency and a number of related sub-competencies (as listed in each module description).
 
The IPE Fundamental Badge will recognize students’ achievement in gaining the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude towards becoming interprofessional practitioners.

Competency Modules Overview:

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Interprofessional Teamwork Competency Module

The UW CIPE Interprofessional Teamwork Competency Module is offered in fall to 1st-year interprofessional students. This module serves as an introduction of interprofessional practice and education to students, as well as an opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of interprofessional teamwork and how to optimize patient outcomes by improving team collaboration.

Module Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the process of team development and the roles and practices of effective teams.
  2. Engage health and other professionals in shared patient-centered and population-focused problem-solving.
  3. Reflect on individual and team performance for individual, as well as team, performance improvement.
  4. Use available evidence to inform effective teamwork and team-based practices.

Module Structure: The complete Module includes one 60-minute in-person session, one 90-minute in-person session, and a one-hour online component.

  • The first in-person session includes an introduction to the IPE concept along with a number of facilitated individual, small and large group activities, discussions and reflections. In one of the activities, students are asked to self-reflect on, and then share their perception of their career selection, professional identity, and understanding of health and illness. In another activity, students need to work in teams to review, analyze, and discuss a clinical scenario to highlight the importance of interprofessional teamwork in a health care setting.
  • The online component requires students to review a journal article and watch a few short video clips related to interprofessional teamwork. The goal of the online section is to enhance students’ understanding of teamwork in health care and to introduce the concept of the 7 C’s in teamwork (Capability, Cooperation, Coordination, Communication, Cognition, Coaching and Conditions) in preparation for the 2nd in-person session.
  • In the second in-person session, students are expected to demonstrate teamwork in action while working in teams to review, analyze and discuss a more complex clinical scenario. Students then will use the 7 C’s to identify and optimize the contributing factors to the scenario’s outcome.

Student feedback is collected through Qualtrics surveys at the end of each in-person session.

Interprofessional Communication Competency Module

The UW CIPE Interprofessional Communication Competency Module is offered as a four-hour module in the spring to 1st-year interprofessional students.

Module Learning Objectives:

  1. Choose effective communication tools and techniques to facilitate discussions and interactions that enhance team function;
  2. Listen actively and encourage ideas and opinions of other team members; 3) Give timely, sensitive, instructive feedback to others about their performance on the team, responding respectfully as a team member to feedback from others;
  3. Use respectful language appropriate for a given difficult situation, crucial conversation, or conflict;
  4. Recognize how one’s uniqueness (experience level, expertise, culture, power, and hierarchy within the health team) contributes to effective communication, conflict resolution, and positive interprofessional working relationships.

Module Structure: The Module includes four units: Unit 1 and Unit 3 online, and Unit 2 and Unit 4 as in-person sessions.

  • Unit 1 is a 30-minute online unit, in which students are introduced to the concepts of Relationship-Centered Care (RCC), empathy, and O.A.R.S. (Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective Listening, and Summarizing.) through listening, watching and reflecting on the presentation, video clips, case studies. The first unit set a foundation for students in understanding the importance of choosing effective communication tools and techniques, showing empathy, and avoiding biases to facilitate effective communication with patients, families, communities, and other health professionals. Students’ understanding of the concepts is assessed via a short online quiz.
  • Unit 2 is a 90-minute in-person session in which students are expected to acknowledge and be aware of existing assumptions/biases, and to practice giving and receiving feedback and active listening. Students are involved in a number of facilitated small and large group activities, like assumptions activity, giving and receiving feedback, ranting out, and reflection.
  • Unit 3 is another 30-minute online unit in which students are introduced to other effective communication approaches and tools like N.U.R.S.E.(S), and their knowledge about other concepts such as O.A.R.S. and empathy are reinforced. Students will then apply their gained knowledge into an interprofessional case scenario to evaluate their understanding of the learned concepts as a short quiz.
  • Unit 4, the last unit is another 90-minute in-person session in which students participate in a role-playing unfolding case scenario about a patient who has gone missing. The goal of the activity is for students to utilize their gained communication and teamwork skills into the case to identify the needs and to support each other as an interprofessional health care team.

Student feedback is collected through Qualtrics surveys at the end of each in-person session.

Interprofessional Roles and Responsibilities Module

The UW CIPE Interprofessional Roles and Responsibilities Competency Module as a four-hour module is offered in the fall to 2nd-year interprofessional students.

Module learning objectives:

  1. Recognize one’s limitations in skills, knowledge, and abilities;
  2. Engage diverse professionals who complement one’s own professional expertise, as well as associated resources, to develop strategies to meet specific health and healthcare needs of patients and populations;
  3. Use the full scope of knowledge, skills, and abilities of professionals from health and other fields to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable; and
  4. Communicate with team members to clarify each member’s responsibility in executing components of a treatment plan or public health intervention.

Module Structure: the Module includes two 90-minute in-person sessions and two 30-minute online components.

  • For the first online component and in preparation for the first in-person session, students are asked to complete the following: an “elevator” speech describing their profession and a word-cloud assignment in which students to submit 3 words that best represented their own profession and 3 words for each of the participating programs.
  • The first in-person session includes an introduction along with a number of facilitated and interprofessional small and large group activities, discussions, and reflections. In one of the activities, students are paired up with a student from a different program to deliver and discussed their prepared elevator speech. Students are presented with the results of the word cloud assignment for reflection and discussion.
  • For the second online component, students are asked to review a tutorial titled Healthcare Team by the Patient Navigator Training Collaborative and to complete a practice quiz at the end of the tutorial. After viewing the tutorial, students also complete a short online quiz, which assesses their understanding of the tutorial. The goal of the online work is to gain a basic understanding of different health care professionals and their roles and responsibilities within a typical health care team in preparation for the second in-person session.
  • The second in-person session consists of two parts. The first part is a brief review of the pre-class assignment and quiz results. For the second part, students in interprofessional teams review and analyze a case study. This activity is designed to show the importance of knowing one’s own limitations and utilizing team members’ diverse expertise to facilitate optimal team performance. Students also need to communicate well within their group to develop and deliver a comprehensive and well-thought-out collaborative patient care.

Student feedback is collected through Qualtrics surveys at the end of each in-person session.

Interprofessional Values and Ethics Competency Module

The UW CIPE Interprofessional Values and Ethics Competency Module is offered as a four-hour module in the spring to 2nd-year interprofessional students.

Module Learning Objectives:

  1. Reflect the unique cultures, values, roles/responsibilities, and expertise of other health professions and the impact these factors can have on health outcomes;
  2. Place interests of patients and populations at the center of interprofessional health care delivery and population health programs and policies, with the goal of promoting health and health equity across the life span; and
  3. Manage ethical dilemmas specific to interprofessional patient/population centered care situation.

Module Structure: The module is four hours in length with two 90-minute in-person sessions and two 30-minute online components.

  • For the first online component and in preparation for the first in-person session, students are asked to complete an ethics worksheet in which they need to describe their own professional code of ethics regarding autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, virtues and interacting with other health care professionals.
  • The first in-person session includes an introduction to the Values and Ethics in IPE along with a number of facilitated pairs, small, and large group activities, discussions and reflections with the goal of creating a shared interprofessional code of ethics. Students share and discuss their professional code of ethics with students from two or more other professions to identify the similarities and differences. In another activity, the interprofessional students share and discuss potential ethical dilemmas within and across professions to develop competence in resolving conflicts in the process of addressing ethical dilemmas using the provided 6-step guidelines.
  • In the second 30-minute online component, as a prep for the 2nd in-person session, students are asked to review and reflect on the newly developed Shared Interprofessional Code of Ethics. The students are also introduced to the concept of One Health via watching two short video clips.
  • The second in-person session includes a number of facilitated small and large group activities, discussions and reflections with the goal of finalizing and expanding the shared interprofessional code of ethics into One Health, and to apply the Shared Codes into an unfolding One Health Case Study. Students are asked to Identify, document, and discuss the most concerning patient, family, and system issues first from their own professional perspective, then from an interprofessional and One Health perspectives, and to develop a collaborative care plan to address these issues at the patient, family, and system levels while using the shared code of ethics.

Student feedback is collected through Qualtrics surveys at the end of each in-person session.

Advanced Dementia Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Mini-Course (ADICS)

The overall goals of the ADICS Mini-Course are to improve students’ interprofessional team-based care competencies (IPEC, 2023) and to promote their adoption of a client- and patient-centered approach and their application of professional knowledge. The course includes a series of four units (two online units and two simulation units).

– Unit 1 (asynchronous) – Introduction to 3Ds (depression, delirium, and dementia)
– Unit 2 (Live Simulation with SPs) – Applying interprofessional collaborative skills to a complex discharge situation where knowledge of a condition, along with the roles and responsibilities of the members of the healthcare team, are required.
– Unit 3 (asynchronous) – Reviewing of cognitive and functional tests and measures, along with interpretation of scores.
– Unit 4 (Live Simulation with SPs) – Interprofessional knowledge integration in developing a collaborative care plan for the client and the caregiver.

Students who complete the ADICS will receive a UW-Madison IPE Simulation Badge offered by UW CIPE. The IPE Simulation Badge will count towards UW IPE Path of Distinction.

Meeting Dates Fall 2024- (all meetings are virtual):

10/28/24- ADICS- Orientation 

4:30-6:00 pm; VIRTUAL

11/4/24- ADICS- Visit 1 

4:30-6:00 pm; VIRTUAL

11/11/24- ADICS- Visit 2 and Debrief 

4:30-6:30 pm; VIRTUAL

Want to RSVP or be contacted about ADICS for Fall 2024?  Click HERE.

Interprofessional Learning Community Dementia Caregiving Mini-Course (IPLCDC)

The Interprofessional Learning Community Dementia Caregiving (IPLCDC) formerly known as the IPL Dementia Caregiving Badge Initiative is a 3-year project funded by Wisconsin Department of Health through the Wisconsin CDC-funded Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Disease Project.

Primary goal of the initiative is to implement and evaluate an opportunity to educate health and social care profession students to learn and work collaboratively with each other and with the caregivers of people living with dementia.

The IPLCDC is a virtual community mini-course in which interprofessional teams of students work collaboratively with each other and with an assigned family caregiver of a patient with dementia, a dementia care specialist (DCS), and a faculty facilitator to develop a customized Caregiver Health and Wellness Resource Packet (as a Capstone Project) for the caregiver.

At the end of the placement, the students will receive a Formal Digital UW-Madison IPE Badge to add to their resume. The IPE Badge will count towards the UW IPE Path of Distinction Program.

Student teams will require to complete the 10-12 hours of virtual placement across January- February.

Want to RSVP or be contacted about the IPLCDC for Fall 2025?  Click HERE.

Learn more about the IPLCDC:

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Meeting Dates:

Spring 2025 Dates:

Tuesdays and Thursdays Jan 28- Feb 27.  Meeting times 5-6 pm- All sessions to be held virtually.

(1/28, 1/30, 2/4, 2/6, 2/11, 2/13, 2/18, 2/20, 2/25, 2/27)

Students- Why should I participate?

Dementia, a widely recognized progressive disease, affects over 50 million people globally. With a rapidly growing population, the existing unrecognized crisis in dementia care will continue to increase. Family caregivers of patients with dementia experience increased negative health conditions due to the stress and demands of providing constant care. Information in this Badge will help providers to be able to recognize and appropriately manage the health and wellbeing of patients who are family caregivers. The IPLCDC provides students a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with a facilitator, a dementia care specialist, and a family caregiver to better understand the health needs of family caregivers. At the end of the placement, the participants will also receive a Formal Digital UW-Madison IPE Badge to add to their resume.

Students- What to expect:

As a one-semester capstone project, the IPLCDC is a telehealth community placement in which interprofessional (IP) teams of 3-5 students work collaboratively with dementia care specialists (DCS), caregivers of people living with dementia (care partners), and facilitators to develop a customized Caregiver Health and Wellness Resource Packet.

At the end of the course, students will be provided with the IPL Dementia Caregiving Badge as a Certificate of Completion, and this badge will count towards UW IPE Path of Distinction.

The main purpose of this IPE Telehealth placement is to help students to improve their interprofessional competencies, including: interprofessional communication, teamwork, collaboration, roles and responsibilities, and client-centeredness in order to engage in interprofessional care of caregivers of people living with dementia.

IP Student teams are required to complete 12 hours of virtual placement from January to February. During this 12-hour virtual placement, the student teams are required to complete the Pre-Work, participate in the required meeting sessions (the Orientation Session, the two Virtual Home Visits, the Meeting with ADRC, and a Debrief Session), and develop and submit a customized Caregiver Health and Wellness Resource Packet as their Capstone Project.

Information for caregivers of a person living with dementia:

  • Caregivers will help to serve as teachers of what it means to be a caregiver of a person living with dementia.
  • Attend two meetings with students and discuss caregiving, resources, and unmet needs in caregiving for people who are or were living with dementia.  Optional for caregivers to join the debrief meeting.
  • Communicate with DCS and project coordinator regarding meetings, potential schedule conflicts, and any other concerns.
  • In appreciation, caregivers can opt to a monetary honorarium with submission of a W-9 tax form to UW-Madison.  Caregivers are also welcome to join and choose to waive honorarium payment if it is preferred not to fill out and submit a W-9 tax form.

If you are a caregiver who is interested in joining for the IPLCDC please reach out to your Dementia Care Specialist who can contact UW CIPE at cipe@wisc.edu.

Information for Dementia Care Specialists:

DCS’ Role and Responsibilities

  • Serve as a liaison and point of contact for caregivers, students, facilitator, ADRC (Aging & Disability Resource Center) supervisor, and project coordinator
  • Serve as dementia care experts to assist students by providing information to complete of the capstone project
  • Communicate via email with the project coordinator to schedule meetings, organize orientation, and discuss group progress, as well as any changes/questions/concerns regarding the program
  • Stay engaged via observing Canvas activities and announcements, which function as the main method of communication from project team to students

Time commitment

  • DCS’s will be contacted by project coordinator by as early as December before the project starts
  • Meetings: 6-8 hours, including: orientation, meetings with caregiver and student team, preparation meetings, and debrief with student team and facilitator
  • Emailing: 1-2h/week depending on project progress

If you are a DCS who is interested in joining for the IPLCDC along with a caregiver of a person living with Dementia, please reach out to at cipe@wisc.edu.

Information for Facilitators:

Facilitator’s Role and Responsibilities

  • Serve as a liaison and point of contact for students, dementia care specialists (DCS), Aging, Disability and Resource Center (ADRC) supervisor, and project coordinator.
  • Lead and facilitate meetings with students, as well as providing guidance for the capstone project.
  • Communicate frequently via email with  project coordinator to schedule meetings, organize orientation, and discuss group progress, as well as any changes/questions/concerns regarding the program.
  • Stay engaged via observing Canvas activities and announcements, which function as the main method of communications from project team to students.
  • Encourage students to stay on track by sending reminders about deadlines and assignments available on Canvas 

Time commitment

  • Facilitators will be contacted by the project coordinator as early as December before the project starts.
  • Virtual Meetings: 8-10 hours including orientation, student team and caregiver meetings, preparation meetings, meeting with ADRC supervisors, capstone development and submission, and debrief

Please reach out to UW CIPE if you are interested in facilitating a group at cipe@wisc.edu.

Healthy Brain, Healthy Aging Mini-Course (HBHA) – Pilot

The main goals of the Healthy Brain, Healthy Aging Mini-Course are to educate interprofessional health students about factors contributing to brain health across the lifespan and to educate students how to include brain health in a patient/client examination while addressing other comorbidities.

Students who participate in and provide feedback, as part of the SP 25 HBHA pilot mini-course, will earn an IPE Leadership Badge.

5-6 hours over three weeks (Pre-work, 3 virtual meetings)

Meeting Dates Spring 2025- (all meetings are virtual):

3/11/25- HBHA- Orientation 

4:30-6:00 pm; VIRTUAL

3/13/25- HBHA- Mid Session

4:30-6:00 pm; VIRTUAL

3/18/25- HBHA- Debrief 

4:30-6:30 pm; VIRTUAL

Want to RSVP or be contacted about HBHA for Spring 2025?  Click HERE.

UW CIPE IPE Designation Program

I. Introduction

In alignment with the UW CIPE 2019-2024 Strategic Directions, and in an effort to establish the foundation for assisting the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW–Madison) students and programs in developing their IPE portfolio and IPE Path of Distinction, UW CIPE has established its IPE Designation Program. The IPE Designation Program aims to facilitate a) the identification, designation, and auditing (as needed) of the current (and future) IPE offerings at UW-Madison and among its community/clinical partners; and b) the development of new IPE opportunities for learners at UW-Madison and among its clinical/community partners. In doing so, UW CIPE, in coordination with its Education Subcommittee and Steering Committee, has developed the UW IPE Designation Criteria with two sections (as explained below): The Minimum Designation Criteria and the Designation Criteria Point System.

All UW–Madison programs/schools/centers/partners are welcome to submit their relevant offerings (courses, workshops, activities, events…) for a UW IPE Designation Certificate by completing the online UW IPE Designation Criteria Application. Those offerings that meet the IPE Designation Criteria will be awarded a formal UW IPE Designation Certificate that could be placed in the IPE Offering’s description/outline/syllabus.

The UW IPE Designation Criteria includes the Minimum Designation Criteria and the Designation Criteria Point System. The UW IPE Minimum Designation Criteria identifies the essential benchmarks needed to consider an educational intervention an IPE (interprofessional practice and education) offering. Here is the list of minimum criteria for IPE Designation:
• Two or more professions involved in the planning, facilitating, and participation of the offering.
• Goal/Outcome of the offering to be inclusive of one or more elements of the Quintuple Aim (patient care, population/community health, cost-effectiveness, providers wellbeing, health equity).
• Participants are provided with opportunities to actively engage in learning with, from, and about each other.
• Participants to have the opportunity to reflect on their learning (i.e., self/group reflection, facilitator feedback, assessment, debriefing).

These minimum designation criteria are identified based on the UW CIPE Strategic Directions and the IPE definition. According to the Strategic Directions, UW CIPE is mandated to facilitate transforming health education, practice, and research through interprofessional collaboration and teamwork to improve the Quintuple Aim (better health, better care, better value, better work experience, and better healthy equity) in Wisconsin and beyond. Interprofessional education is defined as occasions when students from two or more professions learn with, from, and about each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes (WHO, 2010).

The Designation Criteria Point System is a rubric to rank IPE offerings based on the minimum criteria along with a number of additional criteria deemed important in facilitating learners advance their interprofessional collaboration competencies. A goal of UW CIPE is to facilitate providing diverse IPE offerings to enable students in developing a thorough understanding of the knowledge, skills, roles, and responsibilities of different professions and programs in team-based care in order to prepare them for fieldwork collaborative practice. A minimum of two professions is needed for an IPE offering, but health/social programs are encouraged to provide their students with quality well-organized and facilitated IPE opportunities (in-person and/or virtually) with as many other health/social programs as possible.

II. Overview of UW IPE Designation Criteria

The Designation Criteria for IPE Offerings at UW–Madison (adapted from University of Toronto and Creighton University) include two components: The Minimum Designation Criteria Checklist and the Designation Criteria Point System Rubric.

The Minimum Designation Criteria Checklist will determine if a proposed offering could potentially be designated as an IPE Offering. If the proposed offering meets the IPE minimum designation criteria, then it proceeds to a review under the Designation Criteria Point System Rubric.

There are ten sub-criteria in the Rubric that are categorized under the following five criteria:
  1. Interprofessional Representation
  2. Interprofessional Engagement
  3. Interprofessional Learning Outcomes
  4. Interprofessional Reflection
  5. Interprofessional Offering Characteristics

Each Sub-criterion will be awarded points on a three-point scale:
  • 5 points – earned when an acceptable level of IPE occurs with respect to each sub-criterion.
  • 8 points – earned when a moderate level of IPE occurs.
  • 10 points – earned when strong IPE principles are attained.

IPE Offerings will be awarded a UW CIPE certificate as following – based on their total earned points:
  • IPE Bronze Certificate: 50 - 65 points
  • IPE Silver Certificate: 66 - 85 points
  • IPE Gold Certificate: 86 - 100 points

The IPE offerings may also be eligible for an IPE Badge if the offering meets the UW CIPE Badger Program requirements.

The points system will ensure that UW–Madison students engage in high quality, diverse IPE Offerings to complement the UW CIPE Competency Modules and meet program accreditation guidelines for IPE.

Apply Here for UW IPE Designation:

UW CIPE Professional Development Program

IPE focused Professional Development Opportunities, guided by the UW CIPE Professional Development (PD) Advisory Board, coming soon!

UW CIPE Professional Development Program

The success and sustainability of IPE programs rely on well trained faculty/preceptors who are able to effectively integrate IPE into the curricula and clinical learning environments.

To address this demand, the UW CIPE has formed an international interprofessional professional development consortium consisting of five universities from US and Canada - UW—Madison, UW—Milwaukee, Medical College of Wisconsin, Concordia University Wisconsin, and Dalhousie University - who are tasked with the development and delivery of the UW CIPE IPE Teaching and Facilitation Badge Program.

Goals:

The overall goals of the UW CIPE Teaching and Facilitation Badge is to assist faculty, staff, facilitators, preceptors, graduate students and practitioners with:
1. Advancing/enhancing their knowledge, skill, norms, behaviors, and ability to teach and facilitate IPE in diverse settings
2. Developing, implementing, and evaluating intentional, engaging, meaningful, and effective IPE activities/offerings
3. Promoting and supporting IPE integration through organizational change and development.

Guided by the UW CIPE Professional Development (PD) Advisory Board, the consortium has developed four IPE PD modules – ‘What and Why IPE’, ‘IPE Facilitation vs Profession-specific Facilitation, ‘Online IPE Facilitation’, and ‘Simulation-enhanced IPE’- and is in the process of developing four additional modules – ‘IPE Clinical Learning Experiences’, ‘IPE Community Learning Experiences’, ‘IPE Assessment and Evaluation’, and ‘IPE Teaching Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks’.

Using the train-the-trainer model in the past year, the consortium has delivered three virtual PD workshops (as discussed below) in which over 120 cross-professional faculty, instructors, graduate students, and preceptors from over 15 institutions/organizations in the US and Canada have participated.

A needs assessment, pre and post IPE evaluations, and feedback surveys have been completed at each workshop, and the results of the first two workshops show that while half of the participants rated themselves as ‘novice’ in IPE teaching/facilitation and simulation, the PD Day workshops have helped two-third of participants to significantly improve their knowledge, skills, and strategies in facilitating IPE. Over 80% of the participants indicated the workshop was ‘Very Relevant’ to their IPE teaching and practice.

Here are a few quotes from the participants:
– “This workshop will definitely change the way I approach incorporating IPE into my course design.”

– “This was the most interactive online learning experience to which I have participating in a long time. It kept the audience engaged throughout. loved the small group work. Excellent and knowledgeable presenters. Kept you wanting more.”

– “I now have the confidence and foundation to approach our MD staff and start the IPC discussion without it feeling like me against them.”

– “I loved this one. Lots of great things to implement right away and new things to try. Very practical suggestions.”