U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration and the Office of Academic Affiliations recognized the need to rapidly transform VA’s clinical education strategies and workplace learning environment to support the preparation of the nation's future health professionals (interns, trainees, residents, fellows) to practice in higher quality, safer and more efficient team-based care and collaborative practice environments.
VA's five Centers of Excellence of Primary Care Education (CoEPCE) in collaboration with academic affiliate partners, each serve as incubators for teaching and learning in VA's Medical Home Model termed Interprofessional Academic Patient Aligned Care Teams (iAPACTs). This compendium of five case studies is written from the voice of those implementing innovative interprofessional education and infrastructure in clinical environments within primary care. With this compendium, teams tell stories rarely published in traditional academic venues. This volume is designed to illustrate five unique strategies by which interprofessional team-based education can occur in clinical settings. The case studies will provide the reader with information and resources to support the implementation of complex interprofessional curricula and practice in their own primary care or other clinical setting.
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About the Enterprise
Foreword: Barbara Brandt, PhD, Director, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (NEXUS), University of Minnesota
Note from the Editors: VA's National CoEPCE Coordinating Center: Stuart Gilman, MD, MPH, Director and Laural Traylor, MSW, Project Manager
Case Study #1: PACT ICU Model: Interprofessional Case Conferences for High Risk/High Need Patients (Boise VA Medical Center)
Case Study #2: The Dyad Model (Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center)
Case Study #3: Huddling for High Performing Teams (San Francisco VA Health Care System)
Case Study #4: Panel Management Model (VA Puget Sound Health Care System-Seattle Campus)
Case Study #5: Initiative to Minimize Pharmaceutical Risk in Older Veterans (IMPROVE) Polypharmacy Clinic (VA Connecticut Healthcare System -
West Haven Campus)
