The Covid pandemic has had a profound effect in many ways. For health professions educators, the stress of caring for their patients, each other, and often finally themselves and their families, has left little time to consider professional development. Resources for such development have also been limited more than in the past. Duke AHEAD, an academy of interprofessional educators at Duke University Health System has the mission to support and promote health profession educators with…

Using the framework known as SBAR, situation, background, assessment and recommendation, Duke AHEAD(Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development), an interprofessional academy established in 2014 with over 950 members developed a pilot mentorship process that will be offered to health professions educators. This method of program development is unique as the SBAR framework is often used in clinical decision making and as a quality and safety guide for process…

Informal dementia caregiving by family caregivers is a crucial component of the care provided to people living with dementia (PLwD). Currently, health professional training focuses on providing care to PLwD and does not always address the caregiver’s needs and training often occurs within professional solos and not interprofessionally. This study sought to address this issue by: 1) examining the current state of interprofessional dementia caregiving trainings in the US; and 2) developing a…

Interprofessional education (IPE) has established itself as an integral component in the design of many health profession programs. The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competency domains form the pillars to IPE. Of these domains, there is sparce literature in values/ethics domain, especially on a virtual platform, a platform that academia has heavily utilized since the pandemic. We explored virtual interprofessional collaboration utilizing guided questions and a COVID-19…

Interprofessional education (IPE) is a vital component of health science curricular development. IPE lays the groundwork for collaborative practice, which in turn leads to improved patient care and outcomes through the transfer of knowledge, enhanced decision-making, and information sharing. IPE programming that focuses on the concepts of communication and teamwork is critical for learners to experience as these concepts are central to successful collaboration. IPE QUEST (Quandaries…

Occupational therapy (OT) students who participated in a specific Interprofessional Education (IPE) experience called the Interprofessional Team Immersion (IPTI) were the participants in this content analysis. The purpose was to gain a deeper understanding of the application of IPE core competency domain behaviors and to what extent they were evident during on-campus health care simulation. The aim of this study was twofold: 1) examine feedback to assess and inform our institution, as well…

The Lightning Talk will focus on my occupational therapy doctoral capstone research conducted at the Jefferson Center for Healthy Aging, a geriatric primary care clinic in Philadelphia. The project aimed to reduce caregiver burden and increase caregiver self-efficacy by utilizing Skills2Care- Primary Care, a modified version of the evidence-based practice Skills2Care. Skills2Care is a non-pharmacologic occupational therapy intervention for caregivers of individuals with dementia. The study…