Allison
Shorten,
PhD, RN, FACM, FNAP, FAAN
Professor & Department Chair, Director Office of Interprofessional Curriculum
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Allison Shorten is the Director of the Office of Interprofessional Curriculum (OIPC) at UAB, Professor, and Department Chair in the School of Nursing. Dr. Shorten has extensive international experience as a clinician, educator, and researcher in nursing and healthcare, and currently provides leadership in design, implementation and evaluation of interprofessional (IP) curriculum at UAB. She has expertise in the design and delivery of eLearning products, professional development programs, faculty training for promoting IP teamwork in healthcare, curriculum implementation strategies and evaluation techniques for IP education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background:Social and behavioral factors intersect with chronic health challenges, which are increasingly complex and multifactorial. Addressing these challenges requires interprofessional collaborations. Creative approaches are needed to prepare students for the realities of practice. Activities should be designed to prepare future healthcare providers, support development of competencies that cultivate ethical relationships, shared values, team building, professional interactions, and understanding of roles and responsibilities. Training programs need to support communication, strategy…
Description of Seminar1. Benefits of Using Faculty-Student Partnerships for Patient-case Development We will describe the benefits of using collaborative interprofessional teams including student scholars to develop new patient-cases for an interprofessional family tree. We will outline the development process for course content, delivery methodology, piloting, evaluation and quality improvement process. Throughout the development process, student perspectives regarding learner engagement are integrated. We will discuss the vital role student scholars play as interprofessional team members…
BackgroundLearners enter professional training via many different paths. Before undertaking advanced training with other professions, it is essential that learners have a sound understanding of foundational interprofessional (IP) knowledge and skills. Design or MethodologyAn interprofessional team of educators developed four self-paced interactive online modules, titled IP Core-4© , aiming to introduce students to the four interprofessional (IP) competency sub-domains: communication, teamwork, roles and responsibilities, values and ethics. We recruited an interprofessional team of module…
Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) addresses the idea that health professionals must effectively collaborate in an interprofessional team to provide optimal patient-centered care. Research supports that IPE has substantial benefits for health professions students including improved knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward interprofessional practice. Evidence also supports that IPE improves patient care outcomes. An effective way to implement IPE is through exercises that address its core competencies (values and ethics, roles and responsibilities, interprofessional communication,…