Foundations of IPE, required for the first time this academic year, consists of two modules in the fall and two in the spring and brings interprofessional education concepts to life.
“The thing with interdisciplinary learning is each discipline comes from a different perspective, and the point of this, in these teams, they’re already divided into different disciplines,” said Jackie Bateman, DNP, RN, CHPN, CNEcl, from UMSON. “We have dental, medicine, nursing, physical therapy, and pharmacy. So they’re learning how to communicate in a basic activity now, putting together dominoes in a set design versus being over top of a patient in a critical situation.”