Redesigning the Clinical Learning Environment to Improve Interprofessional Care and Education: Multi-Method Program Evaluation of the iPACE Pilot Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2016, Maine Medical Center received an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Pursuing Excellence in Innovation grant to redesign the clinical learning environment to promote interprofessional care and education. The Interprofessional Partnership to Advance Care and Education (iPACE) model was developed and piloted on an adult inpatient medicine unit as an attempt achieve these aims.

Objective

We describe the iPACE model and associated outcomes.

Methods

Surveys and focus groups were employed as part of a multimethod pragmatic observational strategy. Team surveys included relational coordination (RC): a validated proprietary measure of interpersonal communication and relationships within teams. Pre-iPACE respondents were a representative his

SUBMITTER: Hallen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7594784 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature