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Interprofessional Team-based Medication for Addiction Treatment Education (RESPECT-MAT)

In this continuation of the Opioid Education Series, you will interact with Sam Jones, a retired lawyer with pain who is taking opioids. Sam’s pain has continued since their previous visit.

Interprofessional Team-based Opioid Education (RESPECT)

During the interprofessional education (IPE) education session, you will collaborate virtually with a team of students from other health professions, e.g., nursing, medicine, pharmacy, social work, PA, nutrition, athletic training, physical therapy to provide collaborative care to a patient with pain who is taking opioids. The session will simulate a team-based telehealth visit. During the session, each team will:

Error Disclosure

During the IPE Event: Error Disclosure, you will work via Zoom with a team of students from other health professions (medicine, nursing, DNP, and pharmacy) to determine the root cause of a medical error involving a shared patient using differing viewpoints and experiences of each profession. You will work as a team to utilize a root cause analysis tool, in this case a fishbone diagram, to examine how a similar medical error could be prevented from occurring again. Using this information, you will use a team approach to disclose the medical error to the patient’s family member.

Healthcare Team Challenge

During Healthcare Team Challenge, you will work via Zoom with a team of students from other health professions to create a Hospital and Visit Summary for a patient who has recently experienced a stroke. You will write interview questions and interview the patient to ensure health care objectives of the team, and the patient are met, and that the concerns of the patient are addressed with empathy.  Following the interview, you and your team will complete and submit your Hospital and Visit Summary.

ALS Forum: A Day in the Life

This is an interprofessional education (IPE) experience where you will learn about values and ethics through the lived experiences of people affected by ALS. This event includes a panel discussion followed by a small interprofessional group discussion. The clinical content will focus on ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) disease. Small groups could have representation from the following programs: Athletic Trainers, Nursing, Speech and Hearing Sciences, and Pharmacy.