Lightning Talk

Qualitative Analysis of Student Reflections to Assess Leadership Development in an Interprofessional Curriculum

Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CDT

Alicia Williams, EdD, MA, CSAC

Associate Director, Center for Interprofessional Collaboration

East Tennessee State University

Caroline Abercrombie, MD

Director of Community Engagement, Center for IP Collaboration

East Tennessee State University

Amy Johnson, EdD

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University

East Tennessee State University

Trena Paulus, Ph.D.

East Tennessee State University

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Track:

Developing and Sustaining Leadership in Interprofessional Practice and Education

Attendee IPE Experience Track: Significant experience with IPE

Keywords: assessmentleadershipqualitative analysis

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Lightning Talk Live Discussion Recording

Shared leadership in team-based practice helps to improve patient safety and outcomes and enhance provider well-being. Developing future health professionals who incorporate these concepts into their work with colleagues and patients is a crucial component of interprofessional education. Therefore, assessing students’ acquisition of these concepts is paramount and is important not only in assessing student learning but also in program evaluation and improvement. In alignment with the Summit theme, we aim to share our leadership curriculum and our approach to evaluating the attainment of leadership principles through the completion of the IPE modules. We will describe the use of reflection as a summative assessment for health science students at the end of a two-year longitudinal interprofessional education program, and how retrospective qualitative analysis of these student reflections provided an assessment of leadership development in our IPE curriculum for health science students.

First, we will describe the framework of our two-year longitudinal interprofessional education curriculum, elaborating on the second-year experience which incorporates the seven pillars of Servant Leadership as a new lens for learning. Attendees will receive a concise explanation of the mapping of the seven pillars of Servant Leadership to the IPEC competencies and how these were used to create coding categories for qualitative analysis.

Second, we will describe the use of reflection as a summative assessment for students at the end of our two-year IPE experience and their retrospective analysis for program evaluation. Attendees will be walked through the method implemented for qualitative analysis of these reflections and presented with the code frequency results.

Finally, we will discuss our conclusions by describing how the pillars of Servant Leadership representation in the student reflections demonstrate student acquisition of the Servant Leadership principles and how the results inform future practice and continuous program improvement.

Accreditation Details

In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (National Center OICPD). The National Center OICPD is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.

The National Center OICPD (JA#: 4008105) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs).

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

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the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, and the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.

Physicians: The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with their participation.

Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Nurses: Participants will be awarded contact hours of credit for attendance at this workshop.

Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: This activity is approved for contact hours.

Athletic Trainers: This program is eligible for Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.

Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.

IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.

Learners can claim CE credit by completing the Daily Evaluation.