Temple
Ratcliffe,
MD, MS-HPEd
Associate Professor/Clinical
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Temple A. Ratcliffe, MD, MS-HPEd, FACP, is an Associate Professor/Clinical of Medicine at the University of Texas Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine. Dr. Ratcliffe joined the faculty of UT Health in July 2014 and serves as both Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship and as the Long School of Medicine’s representative on Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration, UT Health’s interprofessional education council.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Implementing large-scale clinical interprofessional education (IPE) experiences within clinical learning environments (CLEs) remains challenging. We previously piloted an IPE experience to bridge this divide and unite learners across diverse CLEs. In this Lightning Talk, we will report on a large-scale, successful implementation of an interprofessionally designed, para-clinical IPE experience targeting IPEC-derived teamwork concepts involving students at our large public health sciences university in academic year 2023-2024.
Our interprofessional team designed, piloted, refined, and…
The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine (LSOM) is one of six schools at UT Health San Antonio (UTHSA), home to over twenty-five health professions and biomedical research degree programs. Using HPAC guidance as our framework and the IPEC competencies as common language/educational targets, UTHSA established and sustains a centralized coordinating structure that strengthens our capacity for quality IPE. Evidence of success includes a three-part, longitudinal, university-wide IPE series prioritizing interprofessional communication and teamwork, seed grants to support innovations in…