Healthcare Workforce Partnership 
Fall 2023
Staff and Faculty Development Program (CAPS® Poverty Simulation)
September 20, 2023 2PM – 5PM at Western New England University
Could you survive a month in poverty?
The Poverty Simulation provides participants with the opportunity to assume the role of a low-income family member living on a limited budget. The experience is divided into four 15-minute sessions, each of which represents one week in which you must provide for your family and maintain your home. As one participant commented, “This poverty simulation dramatically demonstrates how much time and energy many families have to give just to survive from day to day. It quickly dispels the myth “that people would do fine if they would only go out and get a job!”
PURCH Population & Community Health Clerkship at UMMS-Baystate
September 25, 2023 – September 29, 2023
The Population & Community Health Clerkship (PCHC) is a team-based, interprofessional, community engaged experience. Students are placed in small groups directed by academic and community preceptors from a range of professions and disciplines. Each team’s experience is unique. The overarching goal of the PHC is to provide relevant real-world context as students expand their understanding of public and population health concepts. In this clerkship, students will:
- Collect, synthesize, and explain relevant population-level data
- Identify the interprofessional team members who care for the population
- Explore ways organizations advocate for, and with, a population to improve social and structural determinants of health
- Apply knowledge toward meaningful service in a community
Learn More: PowerPoint Presentation to PV-IPEC Activities Committee on June 29, 2021
How to get involved or register students, contact: Lisa Clinton (Lisa.Clinton@baystatehealth.org) or Sarah Perez McAdoo (Sarah.Perez-McAdoo@baystatehealth.org)
This is a program of UMass Medical School and Baystate Health Population Based Urban & Rural Community Health Program.
Student Blog: Beyond Medicine: A Deeper Dive into Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health
Interprofessional Viewing of the “To Err is Human” Documentary
October 3, 2023 (Holyoke Community College)/ October 26, 2023 (virtual)
Your program or facility is invited to participate in the Interprofessional Viewing of the “To Err is Human” Documentary. Sessions are scheduled on the evenings of October 3rd (in person) / October 26th (remote). Multiple sessions are planned to accommodate all participants from all interested programs and facilities. In order to create interprofessional groups, we request that programs and facilities divide attendees across the two sessions, if possible. There will be a separate breakout session for practitioners.
Context – While there has been significant progress over the past decade in improving patient safety, medical errors continue to be prevalent in both acute care settings and ambulatory care settings resulting in deaths, injuries, and healthcare expenditures in the United States. Massachusetts is no different as the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety reported in 2019.
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) has been proven to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and improve job satisfaction. IPCP involves teamwork. However in order to function as a team, members need to maintain a climate of mutual respect and shared values, understand the roles and responsibilities of the members, communicate effectively, and apply the principles of effective teamwork. This movie viewing and discussion are aimed at increasing your awareness of medical errors, considering solutions, and learning from, with, and about your current and future healthcare team members.
Register (registration closed on August 31, 2023)
Baystate Health Free Geri-Pal Immersion Virtual Course
October 19 and 20, 2023 (virtual)
AN interactive 1.5-day virtual course focused on Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and Quality Improvement using an inter-professional team approach of mini-lectures and small group case discussions following the 4M’s Age Friendly Health Care Framework.
Intended for an interprofessional audience including but not limited to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, medical assistants, community health workers, case managers, clinical supervisors, medical directors, quality specialists as well as students and learners from all professions.
Spring 2024
Interprofessional Patient Simulation Experience
February 13th, 14th, & 15th 2024 (virtual)
Interprofessional teams of students will review an ambulatory patient case collaboratively and strategize the roles for each profession. Students will interact remotely (similar to a telehealth encounter) with a standardized patient to gather information based on their professional roles. Students will then develop a team-based care plan and deliver to the patient and participate in a debrief discussion to review the advantages and challenges of team-based decision making in patient care.
Aphasia Virtual IPE Program
February 28, 2024 (virtual)
Interdisciplinary groups of students will engage in guided discussions, facilitated by SLP students. SLP students will have read Dr. Meyerson’s powerful book, Identity Theft, co-authored with her son, Danny Zuckerman, which addresses the understudied emotional and identity aspects of recovery and rebuilding a life post-stroke. Identity Theft centers on Meyerson’s experience, but also draws on her skills as a social scientist to incorporate stories from several dozen fellow survivors, family members, friends, colleagues, therapists, and doctors she has interviewed. Grounded in this diversity of experience and Dr. Meyerson’s expertise as an identity scholar, Identity Theft provides a window into recovery of extraordinary value to interdisciplinary professionals. The program will culminate with a presentation from Dr. Meyerson and her husband Steve Zuckerman. Want to know more? Read the Blog.
PV IPEC Interprofessional Poverty Simulation
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April 3, 2024: Bay Path University at 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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April 9, 2024: Springfield Technical Community College at 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Could you survive a month in poverty?
The Poverty Simulation provides participants with the opportunity to assume the role of a low-income family member living on a limited budget. The experience is divided into four 15-minute sessions, each of which represents one week in which you must provide for your family and maintain your home. As one participant commented, “This poverty simulation dramatically demonstrates how much time and energy many families have to give just to survive from day to day. It quickly dispels the myth “that people would do fine if they would only go out and get a job!”
Poverty Simulation Implementation Guide
PV IPEC Spring Interprofessional Day
April 9, 2024
The complexity of healthcare in the United States has increased the need for health professionals to work together and create new models of team-based care. In order to prepare health profession students for collaborative practice, accreditors of health professions academic programs are requiring the inclusion of interprofessional education. Students from medicine, physician assistant studies, nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, social work and others under the leadership of PV-IPEC work together in activities designed to target the IPEC Core Comps (Teamwork, Roles and Responsibilities, Values/Ethics, and Interprofessional Communication). Interprofessional education is defined as occurring when students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.
Examples
- Ambulatory Care Simulation @ Western New England University
- Opioid Use Disorder vs Addiction @ Western New England University
- Interprofessional Escape Room and Team STEPPS Activity @ Holyoke Community College
- PACE, a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly @ American International College
- Poverty Simulation @ Bay Path University
- Emotional Intelligence Through Visual Learning @ Baystate Medical Center
- To Err Is Human Movie @ Mercy Medical Center
- Ethical Case Deliberation @ Springfield College
- Dementia Simulation @ Westfield State University
- Working While Black
How to get involved: Contact Peta-Gaye Porter (pporter@masshirehcwb.com), Director of Healthcare Workforce Initiatives, MassHire Hampden County Workforce Board.
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