Andrea
Pfeifle,
PT, EdD, FNAP
Associate Vice President
The Ohio State University
Andrea L. Pfeifle is Associate Vice President, Interprofessional Practice and Education at the Ohio State University and Wexner Medical Center and Professor of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Pfeifle has had the privilege of serving as the inaugural leader of university-wide interprofessional practice and education initiatives at three large universities. She is President of the National Academies of Practice and a charter member of its Physical Therapy Academy. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative. She avidly advocates, consults, publishes, and presents to advance interprofessional, integrated, patient-centered care to improve health and healthcare outcomes.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
In the ever-evolving landscape of Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE), it is crucial to prioritize the systematic and longitudinal assessment of IPE program/curricula effectiveness. This approach to assessment is necessary to demonstrate that minimum accreditation standards have been met; but further, it is essential for gathering empirical evidence to inform evidence-based practice and to refine IPE initiatives for quality improvement that meet evolving needs of learners, patients and caregivers. This seminar offers a comprehensive exploration of strategies to best navigate…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to impact interprofessional education and collaborative practice by enabling personalized learning paths, enhancing communication among diverse professional groups, and facilitating more effective, data-driven decision-making. Busy leaders of interprofessional education programs must have opportunities to explore AI tools, which hold promise for streamlining administrative tasks, personalizing learning, and optimizing outcomes, allowing them to manage their demanding roles and time more efficiently. During this seminar, session leaders will present and…
Upon participation in this session, the learner will gain an understanding of the digital health environment and its impact and importance, address the gaps in knowledge across the continuum of health professions learners and practitioners, and identify examples of integrating digital health into health professions interprofessional education and practice. Additionally, this session will also provide insights from the student perspective regarding the importance, utility, and gaps in digital health education in health professions educational programs.
Upon completion of this session, the…
Based on student feedback, leaders from the Doctor of Medicine (MD) curriculum and the Office of Interprofessional Practice and Education (OIPE) at The Ohio State University developed a new module for medical students to learn interprofessional (IP) collaborative competencies within a required clinical experience, Patients with Populations (PWP). The “IPE in PWP: Identifying and Reflecting on Interprofessional Collaboration in Clinical Practice” module aims to enable immersive IP learning that builds knowledge and skills in IP collaboration. This module was designed as experiential learning…
The Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC) 2019 report provides guidance on processes academic leaders can use to establish quality interprofessional education (IPE) programming. Despite a myriad of evidence documenting the need for and benefit of IPE, challenges in the development, implementation, sustainability, and growth of these programs are well documented with a reported 60% of U.S. institutions lacking a systematic IPE plan. Heeding the advice from the HPAC document for institutional leaders to develop systematic approaches and collaborate across institutions, multiple…
Interprofessional education (IPE) is required in most health professional programs, and simulation-enhanced IPE (Sim-IPE) is one method for developing interprofessional competencies in learners. Additionally, teaching about social determinants of health and advancing health equity are required in many accreditation and curricular standards. The Ohio State University has created a robust interprofessional education curriculum, BuckIPE, which is an interactive and experiential program that engages students, educators, practitioners, and community partners while transforming education and…
The goal of this seminar is to provide attendees with a strong understanding of educational scholarship and provide them with concrete next steps for development and implementation of a scholarly project using their own research ideas. While there is no dearth of literature on interprofessional education (IPE), there is a need for rigorous IPE studies that: (1) measure effects on behaviors, organizational change, and delivery of care, (2) develop a firmer understanding of the teaching and learning processes, (3) measure the processes and products of IPE using standardized models, (4) measure…
Attendees will apply their understanding of the digital health landscape and gaps in digital health education to identify opportunities for all health profession learners to be better prepared for digital healthcare. Through interactive discussion, attendees will discuss how digital health currently impacts collaborative practice, brainstorm what learners need to know in preparation for collaborative practice in the digital health era, and identify challenges and resources required to advance digital health education for interprofessional learners. Attendees will be invited to continue to…
A shared experience among institutions advancing IPE is the challenge of developing, implementing and scaling meaningful experiential IPE. The collaborators on this seminar confirm the usual reasons for this issue that have been widely described (Brandt, 2015). However, an additional common observation is the striking paucity of ubiquitous models of interprofessional team-based care across the practice and community settings where health professional learners rotate. Adding to this challenge is the operational difficulties facing practice and health systems, especially after the pandemic.…