Video recordings for sessions in the Vandenberg Room on November 17 were not captured properly and are unavailable for posting. The symposium planning committee apologizes for the inconvenience of this issue.
Healthcare education has been largely siloed, and there are calls to shift to a collaborative and coordinated approach. Healthcare education programs are embracing interprofessional education as a way to modernize the teaching of future providers. The goal is to improve the quadruple aim of care: improved patient outcomes, improved patient experience, reduced health care costs, and improved provider wellbeing. U-M's Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE) has 5 defined IPE competencies that are tracked across approximately 35 IPE offerings and 5000 students from 10 schools across 3 campuses.
With U-M's growing number of IPE offerings, the Center for IPE faces the challenge of tracking offerings, student participation, and IPE competencies gained by learners. Tracking is further complicated because learning occurs using diverse formats including formal courses, online courses, modules embedded in courses, one-time events, and experiential settings.
Recognizing that data existed in multiple places, the Center for IPE identified an opportunity to collaborate with U-M Information Technology and Services (ITS) to implement their vision for managing and bringing together data within and across programs, schools, and campuses.
As a result of this data management collaboration, the Center for IPE can report to partner schools and leadership about participation in IPE offerings, school contribution to IPE efforts, and degree of competency acquired by health professions students in order to continually improve IPE education. The Center can also review how IPE competencies are incorporated across the health science schools as well as how students build those competencies, all with the ultimate goal of improving patient care.