Amy
Blue,
PhD
Associate Vice President for Interprofessional Education
University of Florida
Amy Blue, PhD is the Associate Vice President for Interprofessional Education at the University of Florida. She has been involved in interprofessional education since 2007, and prior to that, was involved in medical education for many years. Dr. Blue has presented at numerous professional conferences and has published extensively in the IPE and medical education literature. She is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Interprofessional Care, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice. She was a co-founder of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) and has recently served as Chair of the organization.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Poster Description:
BACKGROUND: Comprehensive and coordinated approaches are needed to teach students how to address health care needs, cultural sensitivity, and empathy when interprofessional knowledge is of paramount importance for the overall outcome. Simulation experiences are known as effective interprofessional education (IPE) activities, and use of virtual patients (VP) is an emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled approach in IPE. An advantage of VPs is that learners can access them at anytime and anywhere, providing a flexible, yet coordinated learning environment. This poster…
Lightning Talk Description: Teamwork, an integral component of interprofessional (IP) collaboration, consists of multiple types of behaviors by a single individual. Teams create their own culture, with members holding shared behavioral norms and expectations. In longitudinal IPE experiences, what teamwork behaviors do students, as individuals and as teams, use to support a shared culture of teamwork?
PURPOSE: In this Lightning Talk, we examine students’ perceptions of their teams’ behaviors while working with community-based volunteers as an effort to determine how students use and adapt…
Poster Description:
BACKGROUND: Interprofessional education (IPE) is increasingly present in veterinary medicine education and veterinary students’ inclusion in IPE offers other health professions students opportunities to learn about the profession, One Health, and important variants in collaborative practice. The purpose of this study was to examine first year veterinary students’ perceptions of their learning from a longitudinal community-based IPE experience with other health professions learners and community volunteers. Knowledge gained from student learning outcomes can better inform…
Join us for the Interprofessional Practice and Education Partners Forum to learn more about US organizations working to advance interprofessional practice and education. During the one-hour session, there will be three 20-minute rotations where attendees will have the opportunity to visit three different participating organizations for a briefing to learn more about their mission, priorities and new initiatives. Take this opportunity to hear the latest developments from organizations committed to advancing interprofessional priorities in learning and practice.
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Seminar Description: Interprofessional Education (IPE) has become a key focus in the curricula of health professions, including veterinary medicine. The broad purpose of IPE is to provide educational opportunities between two or more professions that lead to current and future collaboration to improve patient and client care and health outcomes. One of the challenges of implementing IPE programs that include veterinary medicine is understanding the role of the veterinarian in the health team. The One Health initiative, with its focus on interprofessional collaboration, shares many similar…
Seminar Description: The seminar will provide a platform to share how interprofessional leaders are supporting some of the priority areas of the National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being. The National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being (National Academy of Medicine, 2022) describes “changes needed across the health system and at the organizational level to improve the well-being of the health workforce.” The National Plan includes seven priority areas and advocates that health worker well-being requires support from multiple units, including academic institutions or training programs.…
Seminar Description: Health systems science (HSS) is gaining attention as health and social care systems increase in complexity. The American Medical Association (AMA) has framed HSS as an integral 3rd pillar complementing basic and clinical sciences in medical education to prepare learners for the realities of current practice. Interprofessional team practice is recognized as one of twelve HSS’ core domains, yet the fields of interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) and HSS have only begun to interact with one another. A recent literature review has shown that while HSS…
Seminar Description:
Problem Statement: Replicability and generalizability of interprofessional education (IPE) outcomes is hampered by inconsistent reporting of IPE characteristics/variables and limited multi-institutional studies. Assuming single site studies continue to be highly represented in published literature, it is critical to advocate for a solution which supports replicability and allows researchers to account for variability in learning environments across institutions.
Background: A team of researchers from 8 institutions/organizations in the US took the first steps in…