Tracey
Vause Earland,
PhD, OTR/L, FNAP
Associate Professor, Jefferson College of Rehabilitative Sciences and Co-Director, J-SICCC
Thomas Jefferson University
Tracey Vause Earland, PhD, OTR/L, FNAP is an Associate Professor in the College of Rehabilitation Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa. For over 25 years, she has served as a Co-investigator, project coordinator, and research interventionist on various funded studies centered on patients with complex health and social needs, frailty, neurocognitive disorders, low vision, and veterans with traumatic head injury. Tracey is the Co-Director of Jefferson’s Student Interprofessional Complex Care Collaborative. She also is an active member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative and the National Academies of Practice.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Longitudinal experiential interprofessional education (IPE) is one model of IPE where students from different health professions collaborate, often with a patient expert or community volunteer, to learn about, from, and with each other over time. One common goal of longitudinal IPE is training learners to apply teamwork principles, including operating from a shared framework, using shared leadership practices, facilitating team coordination, and reflecting on self and team performance. Theories regarding the stages of team development suggest that skills, attitudes, and behaviors pertaining…