Sim Interprofessional Education (IPE) connects providers from across different disciplines to impart their knowledge to one another and learn from each other, ultimately creating a more unified healthcare team. The experience helps medical professionals understand the roles, responsibilities, and approaches of their own discipline and those of other healthcare professionals when addressing complex clinical and social problems.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss interprofessional simulation foundations
- Recognize how teamwork and communication affect patient care and continuity of care
- Learn how the process can yield improved teamwork, cross-discipline common language, shared responsibility and an overall enhancement of the provider and patient experience
- Understand the importance of healthcare professionals working together to address patient needs
- Recognize how IPE simulations could be incorporated into professional development