Learners engage with real clinical or community-facing clients/patients in a supervised environment, or with simulated clients/patients in a controlled setting using standardized cases.
This session is a hands – on experience with multiple health care professions depending on program availability (medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, and physical therapy). Students practice the ways a health care team might function to effectively and efficiently care for a hospitalized patient/client who has had a stroke. IPE student teams determine how to work together to take a history and physical and develop an admission or discharge plan for a standardized patient. The experience is then debriefed by an IPE faculty team and the standardized patient. The goal for this session is to develop an integrated, interprofessional admission or discharge plan that reflects the roles and strengths of each member of the care team as well as the needs o f the patient. This experience was initiated in 2009 with medicine and nursing students and has since been expanded and adapted based on feedback from participants and the curriculum team.
“[After facilitating SPTE], as a student I feel that the SPTE experience is what health professional students need before entering the real world. The light bulb went off while I was facilitating that the sole purpose of this experience was for us students to learn from one another how to collaborate to provide clients/patients with the best care, not to necessarily find the correct diagnosis or treatment plan.”
Anastasia Jones, Pharmacy APPE Intern
on a simulated stroke case during an SPTE session.
Faculty Membership
- Tammy Burlis, PT, DPT, CCS, Washington University School of Medicine
- Dennis Chang, MD, MD Program, Washington University School of Medicine
- Sarah Decker, APRN, FNP-C, RN, Goldfarb School of Nursing
- Jennifer Griffith, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine
- Heather Hageman, MBA, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
- Jan Hanson, PhD, EdS, Washington University School of Medicine
- Jill Johnson, PT, DPT, Washington University School of Medicine
- Emily Somerville, OTD, OTR/L, Washington University School of Medicine
- Julie Woodhouse, MEd, RN, CHSE, Director of Immersive Learning Centers, Washington University School of Medicine
Community Interprofessional Care Coordination (also known as “Hotspotting”) brings together a team of learners over an 8-month period to engage with a client/patient who needs extra support. Learners complete an online curriculum throughout the activity. In AY 21-22, our pilot was expanded to two teams of five senior-level interprofessional students each from medicine, nursing, OT, pharmacy, and public health. Through tighter connections with the St. Louis Community Health Worker Coalition, learners will be able to:
- Describe the root causes of health disparities and impact of SDOH on health outcomes
- Recognize the importance of screening for and addressing SDOH challenges
- Utilize a patient-centered, interprofessional approach to address the health challenges of complex patients
- Demonstrate positive behaviors and adaptability that result in team effectiveness and shared decision-making
- Click here to read a reflection from CIPE AY 2023-2024 MPH intern, Kate Gershwin, about her experience with Hotspotting
“One huge strength is the opportunity to build connections with students from other healthcare professions and see how everyone can work together to provide patient-centered care. Another strength is the ability to see how social determinants of health can impact patient care and what resources we can provide to participants to navigate the the healthcare system.” — Hotspotting Learner
Hear about this experience and view recent scholarship from this team.
Membership
- Kate Barbier, MSW, MPH, Washington University Brown School of Social Work
- Dennis Chang, MD, MD Program, Washington University School of Medicine
- Keely Finney, CHW, LCSW, St. Louis Community Health Worker Coalition
- Gloria Grice, Pharm.D., St. Louis College of Pharmacy at UHSP
- Martha Hoffman, DNP, MBA, RN, Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College
- Haley Johnson, Pharm.D., St. Louis College of Pharmacy at UHSP
- Kelvin Pettis, CHW, St. Louis Community Health Worker Coalition
- Duana Russell-Thomas, MSOT, OTD, OTR/L, Washington University School of Medicine
- Jewel Stafford, MSW, Washington University Brown School of Social Work
The Center is working with our Curriculum & Assessment Committee to develop content for this curricular activity. Check back soon for updates!