Reflections in Interprofessional (IP) Care

Reflections in Interprofessional (IP) Care

Reflection Assignment Information

Assignment Description: 

The six professions of allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing and public health have come together to support interprofessional education (IPE).  Many accrediting bodies have altered their accreditation standards to include required IPE.

The intent of this assignment is to provide a high impact/low burden interprofessional educational (IPE) experience that enables students to understand and reflect upon the importance and process of inter-professional care regardless of what other health professions students are present in the setting.  It has been decided that in obtaining a medical, pharmacy, and dental education at LECOM, every student will experience IPE.  This assignment is designed to allow each student, regardless of his or her pathway or location, the opportunity to embrace effective IPE and to develop elements of competence in the four Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) domains.

In this assignment, using the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) “Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Update 2016” as a foundational and required reading, students will learn about the roles and responsibilities of others and how to collaborate to achieve the best care for the patient, understand values and ethics and how to address barriers, and learn the importance of ongoing interprofessional communication in a professional practice.[unique_solution]

Assignment Goals:

By the end of this activity, students will:

1. Work towards developing competence in interprofessional collaboration and specifically, in the four areas of values and ethics, roles and responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and interprofessional teamwork as outlined in the IPEC document.
2. Become aware of, develop understanding, and implement the behaviors and attitudes of IPE.
3. Become proficient in the method of critical reflection.

Assignments:

Disclaimer:  Assignments may change in response to the needs of the course.  Additional “optional” documents will be made available on the portal for students interested in further IPEC information.

1. Required Readings
2. IPEC’s “Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice” Report Update 2016”
3. Epstein and Hundert’s “Defining and Assessing Professional Competence”
4. Wald, et al’s “Fostering and Evaluating Reflective Capacity in Medical Education: Developing the REFLECT rubric for Assessing Reflective Writing”
5. IPE Examples from Practice

1. Required Videos Student Reflections on IPE
2. Kauffman’s Clinical Competencies, Parts 1 and 3

1. Written Assignment (required): This assignment includes a writing exercise that is intended to facilitate reflection of the foundations and rationale for IPE. A document detailing clinical scenarios has been provided as a starting point for this reflection assignment. Students will produce a reflection paper based on their clinical experiences in chosen settings where the likelihood of interprofessional interaction is high.  This is a scored assignment, based upon evaluation of submitted work using a standardized grading rubric.

1. Forum Postings (optional and encouraged): These are used to engage students in conversations centered on topics of interest. Students are expected to make thought-provoking and influential posts that mimic the dialogue that would take place in a live group setting.

Assignment Management Policies:

Civility:

Civil behavior enhances the academic setting, and is expected at all times.  The academic environment welcomes a difference of opinion, discourse, and debate within a civil and professional academic environment.

Assignment Failure:

The reflection exercise must be completed satisfactorily (quiz and paper) in order to pass the PPE IV course.

Reflections in Interprofessional Education

• The reflection paper must be submitted in Word (.doc/.docx) format, using 12 point Times New Roman or Arial font. Reflection papers must be no less than 3 pages, but no more than 5 pages.
• An example of a reflection paper will be posted on the portal for students to use a guide. As well, Wald et al’s paper, “Fostering and Evaluating Reflective Capacity in Medical Education:  Developing the REFLECT rubric for Assessing Reflective Writing” contains an example as well as application of the grading rubric.
• Please see assignment rubric below for additional information regarding grading.

The topic for the reflection paper is:

Based on interactions that you have had, during a clinical rotation, with health professionals from other fields, reflect on all of the following:

• What have I learned about the four IPEC competencies that will influence the way I will practice in the future?
• What have I learned about the other health profession(s) that I have interacted with during this rotation?
• What have I been able to teach other health professionals about my profession during this rotation?
• What barriers have I identified in myself that must be overcome in order that I can effectively practice interprofessional care?