Lightning Talk Description: The need for primary palliative care education has been recognized across multiple disciplines, but many existing educational efforts have been siloed within individual disciplines. In this lightning talk, we will discuss the development and outcomes of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Interprofessional Palliative Care program from its pilot in 2020 to its most recent implementation in Spring of 2023. Aligned with the National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, the program is a semester-…

The Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative's (HPAC) guidance document on developing quality interprofessional education (IPE) for the health professions underscores the importance of utilizing shared terminology, providing clear rationale, and intentionally and longitudinally integrating interprofessional learning activities into professional curricula. To provide a consistent method for all health professions students to receive common foundational knowledge of IPE and collaborative practice (CP), an interprofessional team at the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and…

Over the last three years, faculty and staff members of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Racial and Social Justice Taskforce (RSJT) have worked together to actualize the interconnectedness of interprofessional collaborative practice and the advancement of anti-racism in health education and practice. To aid in this work, the team created a curriculum self-study tool, intended to guide critical thinking and facilitate idea generation around issues of racial and social justice within and across the Center’s interprofessional education (IPE) programs. The tool…