Partnership

The IPE Clinical & Community Placement Experience

As part of the UW CIPE Experiential Expansion Initiative, the IPE Clinical & Community Placement Experience expansion aims to apply knowledge from IPE learning to the students’ clinical and community placements. The program provides tools to students, instructors, and preceptors to intentionally integrate IPE concepts into practice. The overall objective is to graduate students who are well-prepared for collaborative practice, capable of leading IPE initiatives, and advancing the Quintuple Aim, which encompasses better health, improved care, enhanced value, and superior work experience, and greater health equity, with the goal of improving healthcare for all. Below are the IPE Clinical & Community Placement Experience learning objectives and the program overview.

Overall Goals

• Elevating IPE learning for students in their clinical/community placements/rotations by equipping students, and their instructors and preceptors, with ways to intentionally consider and integrate IPE within those placements.
• Preparing students as collaborative practice-ready and as IPE champions to lead IPE efforts in promoting the Quintuple Aim (better health, better care, better value, better work experience, and better health equity).

Learning Objectives

1. Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect. (IPEC 2023 – Values and Ethics)
2. Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address health outcomes. (IPEC 2023 – Roles and Responsibilities)
3. Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members. (IPEC 2023 – Communication)
4. Apply values and principles of team science to adapt one’s own role in a variety of team settings. (IPEC 2023 – Teams and Teamwork)

Program Overview

• Orientation
  • To begin this opportunity, a virtual orientation and pre-brief with interprofessional students takes place before students start their Clinical & Community Placements. During this orientation and pre-brief, students will be provided with an overview of this experience, what they should look for in terms of IPE integration during their placements, and a set of conversation starters to prepare students for looking through the lens of IPE.
• Check-In
  • At the mid-point check in, students will be brought together, via a virtual meeting, to discuss what they have experienced so far. They will also be provided with a next set of questions and conversation starters to help foster IPE Integration for the remainder of their Clinical & Community placement. This mid-point check-in enables students to acquire and implement knowledge about how they can be leaders adept at championing IPE within their clinical and community placements.
• Debrief
  • Finally, this experience will end with a virtual debrief which will take place after the students complete their clinical and community placements. The debrief session and discussion is to be held among interprofessional groups of students who will share and compare their IPE-integration experiences. This final discussion is to be based on what students experienced, conversations they had, and potentially even a sharing of ways students felt they were able to provide leadership with regards to IPE in their placement.

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