TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving the interprofessional practice, knowledge, and skills of health professions students through an interactive course in gerontology
AU - Mulvaney, Elizabeth A.
AU - Jantea, Rachel
AU - Leslie, Paula
AU - Toto, Pamela
AU - Allias, Mary
AU - Grant, Catherine
AU - Hornyak, Victoria
AU - Klinger, Julie
AU - Nelson, Rhaven
AU - Skledar, Susan
AU - Covaleski, Kylea
AU - Wright, Rollin M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Authors.
PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - Interprofessional, collaborative health care is the ideal standard in geriatrics. Students’ interprofessional practice skills are limited in typical siloed education. An experiential, team-based geriatrics course was designed to improve health professions (HP) students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes about interprofessional practice. Students (n=209) from dentistry, medicine, nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physician assistant, social work, and speech-language pathology were assigned to interprofessional (IP) and medical-student only teams. The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey-Revised (ICCAS-R) was administered pre-and post-course, along with program evaluations. Seventy percent of students completed both pre-and post-surveys. ICCAS-R scores were analyzed comparing the impact of training for medical students (n=78) on IP teams and remaining HP students (n=58). Students rated themselves as improved on all six ICCAS-R subscales (paired t-tests, p < 0.05). Sixty-nine percent rated themselves as better able to collaborate interprofessionally. A competitive team-based learning exercise using gamification was rated as the most authentic skill-building interprofessional activity. Experiential learning where students worked with the same team helped to build interprofessional and teamwork skills. Findings will be used to improve authenticity of the clinical and teamwork content, increase the use of gamification as a teaching technique, and refine students’ practice of IP teamwork competencies.
AB - Interprofessional, collaborative health care is the ideal standard in geriatrics. Students’ interprofessional practice skills are limited in typical siloed education. An experiential, team-based geriatrics course was designed to improve health professions (HP) students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes about interprofessional practice. Students (n=209) from dentistry, medicine, nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physician assistant, social work, and speech-language pathology were assigned to interprofessional (IP) and medical-student only teams. The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey-Revised (ICCAS-R) was administered pre-and post-course, along with program evaluations. Seventy percent of students completed both pre-and post-surveys. ICCAS-R scores were analyzed comparing the impact of training for medical students (n=78) on IP teams and remaining HP students (n=58). Students rated themselves as improved on all six ICCAS-R subscales (paired t-tests, p < 0.05). Sixty-nine percent rated themselves as better able to collaborate interprofessionally. A competitive team-based learning exercise using gamification was rated as the most authentic skill-building interprofessional activity. Experiential learning where students worked with the same team helped to build interprofessional and teamwork skills. Findings will be used to improve authenticity of the clinical and teamwork content, increase the use of gamification as a teaching technique, and refine students’ practice of IP teamwork competencies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090755483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85090755483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18060/23682
DO - 10.18060/23682
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090755483
SN - 1527-8565
VL - 20
SP - 184
EP - 203
JO - Advances in Social Work
JF - Advances in Social Work
IS - 2
ER -