If you missed out on our SOLD OUT Inaugural Faculty Movie Night in May don’t let our SECOND movie night slip past you.

Thanks to a generous donation from the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, we are able to reserve a larger theater room at the Riverdale 10.
Your admission is FREE but seats will fill up fast!

Monday, October 1^st join us as we watch the award winning, “Something the Lord Made” starring Alan Rickman and Mos Def.  This movie tells the emotional true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. (Amazon.com)

An interprofessional pre/post discussion will be held regarding diversity and health disparity issues in the healthcare field.

Register today and reserve your seat (feel free to register a guest!).

Faculty members are encouraged to document their IPE certification and participation in IPE events. If you have questions, please contact the Office of Interprofessional Education at (501)686-5686 or email IPE@uams.edu.

Interprofessional Collaborative Research involves the active engagement of two or more professions or disciplines in a research project, with the highest degree of integrated collaboration — all members of the research team are equally involved in the research process from start to finish.

In this context, profession is defined as a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification and discipline is defined as a branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher education. Thus collaborative researchers might include those from different academic disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology, statistics, computer science, economics, sociology, psychology, education, etc.) or professionals (health care administrator, statistician, educator, researcher, nurse, physician, etc.).

Team-based, interprofessional/interdisciplinary collaborative researchers will work together to:

• Identify common interests, questions, and hypotheses
• Design the research project
• Interpret the results in terms of their significance and implications
• Disseminate research findings broadly across multiple professional groups for maximum impact

Collaborative researchers respect the knowledge that each participant brings to the discussion so that together they might know better how to understand complex problems, and can include a wide range of research areas including basic science, clinical research, educational science, and community research.

Specifically, the Office of IPE provides learning experiences that teach researchers how to create and enhance the quality of their research collaborations. These offerings will assist in promoting more team-based science to collaboratively investigate complex problems and further scientific knowledge. These offerings will underscore the UAMS culture of collaboration, as well as the core competency domains for interprofessional collaborative research that is integrated within that culture.

Patient- and family-centered care is a central tenet in the clinical environment at UAMS. Health care reform has led to the consideration of interprofessional team-based, collaborative care as a way to provide comprehensive care to patients and their families.

Many clinicians at UAMS wish to move from solo practice to an interprofessional collaborative practice, but are unsure of the steps or skills necessary. The Office of Interprofessional Education has developed evidence-based programs dedicated to faculty skill development in how to build an interprofessional collaborative team.

In addition, these offerings will provide activities for faculty to develop the four core competency domains of high-quality interprofessional team-based care that keeps patients and their needs first: teamwork, understanding and coordinating roles/responsibilities, effective communication and developing a culture of shared values/ethics.

Delivery of quality care to provide comprehensive health care services for patients and their families is challenging and complex. Fostering collaborative, integrated care and evidence-based care models that implicate specific skill acquisition in addition to didactic learning that is evidence-based is key. Specifically, we will provide learning experiences that target skills that research has shown to enhance the quality of clinical collaborations and team-based care, reduce safety events and positively impact patient- and family- engagement and satisfaction in the care environment. These offerings will underscore the UAMS culture of patient- and family-centeredness and the core competency domains for interprofessional collaborative practice that are integrated within that culture.

A facilitator skills workshop (IPE 201) is available. Attendees learn facilitator skills needed for working with interprofessional groups of learners.

Also, participants engage in active/experiential learning activities focused on adapting existing learning experiences from solo professional to interprofessional and/or the creative design and implementation of a new IPE event. Further, they will be collaboratively led by an interprofessional group of co-presenters, who will model interprofessional collaboration skills while teaching.

Already facilitating IPE events?  Click here for information about our Exemption Policy

The Office of IPE recognizes that there are UAMS faculty among us who are already engaged in interprofessional education activities and have been for some time.  While you still can participate in our IPE Facilitator and Master Facilitator certification processes, some of you may wish to be acknowledged for your already-existing expertise in IPE facilitation.

If so, please submit the online form found HERE for review by the Office of IPE Faculty Development Committee.  Be sure to be specific and include dates of participation. You will also need to include a PDF version of your current CV.

Information needed for IPE  Certification Special Exemption:

• Please list each of the IPE events you have facilitated (it is acceptable to copy/paste from your CV) and add the name and profession of all co-presenters for that event, as well as the professions in which the student attendees are training. Most importantly, describe how interprofessional learners are learning about, from, and with each other and which core competencies you think are skills being developed during the event (teamwork, shared values/ethics, communication, and/or understanding roles/responsibilities).
• Please note that there are two different types of certification. Effective facilitation of one type of IPE event (e.g., exposure workshop, research project advisor, movie review, 12th Street preceptor, etc) is termed IPE Facilitator Certification.  Effective facilitation of three or more types of IPE events is termed Master IPE Facilitator Certification. If upon review of your materials the Office of IPE Faculty Development Committee is unable to determine the nature/extent of your IPE facilitation activities the Committee may request additional information and/or observe your facilitation of your IPE event.