Abstract
A fragmented workforce consisting of multiple disciplines with varying levels of training and limited ability to work as a team often provides care to older adults. Interprofessional education (IPE) is essential for preparing practitioners for the effective teamwork required for community-based, holistic, person-centered care of the older adults. Despite numerous programs and offerings to advance education and interdisciplinary patient care, there is an unmet need for geriatric IPE, especially as it relates to community-dwelling older adults and caregivers in medically underserved areas. A core group of university faculty from multiple disciplines received funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program to collaborate with community-based providers from several Area Agen-cies on Aging in the creation and implementation of the Interprofessional Curriculum for the Care of Older Adults (iCCOA). This geriatric curriculum is interprofessional, comprehensive, and community-based. Learners include third-year nursing students, nurse practitioner stu-dents, third-year medical students, internal medicine and family medicine residents, master’s level social work students, third-year pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, third-year dental students, dental hygiene students, community-based organization professionals, practicing community organizers, and community health navigators. This article describes the efforts, successes, and challenges experienced with this endeavor, including securing funding, ensuring equal representation of the disciplines, adding new components to already crowded curricula, building curriculum on best practices, improving faculty expertise in IPE, managing logistics, and ensuring comprehensive evaluation. The results summarize the iCCOA components, as well as the interprofessional domains, knowledge, and competencies.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 109-118 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Advances in Medical Education and Practice |
| Volume | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 Schapmire et al.
Funding
secured grant funding for gerontology iPE This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under U1QHP28732 titled Kentucky Rural & Underserved Geriatric Interprofes-sional Education Program and is a 3-year grant of $2.55 million. This information or content and conclusions are those of the authors and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by, the HRSA, HHS, or the US Government. This material is based on the work supported by HRSA, which had no role in the design, methods, participant recruitment, data collection, analysis, or preparation of the manuscript or in decision to submit manuscript for publication. Aspects of this paper were presented as conference talks at the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual meeting in March 2017, the American Society on Aging annual conference in March 2017, and the American Geriatrics Society annual meeting in May 2017. No abstracts were published.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| US Department of Health and Human Services | |
| US Government or NYU | |
| U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | U1QHP28732 |
| Health Resources and Services Administration | |
| American Geriatrics Society | |
| Honeywell Hometown Solutions | |
| American Society on Aging |
Keywords
- Community-based care
- Curriculum
- Geriatrics
- Interdisciplinary education
- Team-based care
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
- Education
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