The Collaboration in Action (CIA) Interprofessional Rural & Underserved Practice experience is an interprofessional education opportunity designed to allow learners from different professions to engage in collaborative activities in the clinical learning environment.
This experience involves pairs of Doctor of Physical Therapy and MD Rural Physician Associate Program (RPAP) or MD Metropolitan Physician Associate Program (MetroPAP) learners identified as co-located in rural clinical environments during full-time rotations. The focus is to learn about, from, and with each other as providers in a rural or underserved context and as applied to their future careers.
Participants complete a series of interactive interprofessional activities:
- Engaging with Peer Allied Learners (PALs): Learn, network, and create mutual support with other University of Minnesota interprofessional learners. Shadowing exchange with reflective debriefing questions.
- Consultation in Action: Consult with PAL(s) on a Aging Self-Assessment & Case Navigation focused on aging population in rural and underserved communities.
- Self and Peer Feedback: Reflect on teamwork and communication skills demonstrated by yourself and interprofessional peers.
- MD only: Participation in Physician curriculum session - Falls & Mobility in Aging
The purpose of this intentional interprofessional collaboration in the clinical learning environment is to promote:
- Expand knowledge of and articulate the roles and responsibilities of one’s own and other professions and develop interprofessional peer networks by making personal and professional connections.
- Identify how one's individual professional identity plays a role in the interprofessional practice setting.
- Apply valuable skills in the clinical learning environment as an active member of the healthcare team to advance in IPEC competency area development.
- Advance team interprofessional identity by engaging with team members in the context of teamwork, ethics, communication, and responsibilities in practice to consider the impact on team effectiveness and health outcomes.
- Increase knowledge, expertise and practice skills in implementing and promoting the 4Ms, and the core competencies for caring for persons living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.
Several Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies are developed through these activities:
- Communication: C 1, 3, 5
- Roles & Responsibilities: RR 2, 4
- Teams & Teamwork: TT 2, 3
- Values & Ethics: VE 5
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