Interprofessional conflict is a persistent challenge in healthcare, often stemming from communication breakdowns, unclear roles, and unspoken hierarchies. These issues can compromise patient safety, erode trust, and diminish team effectiveness. This seminar explores simulation as a high-impact educational strategy to surface and de-escalate these tensions. Participants will engage with “Whose Patient Is It Anyway?”—a standardized patient (SP) simulation involving a complex hospital discharge…

Children and families affected by serious medical conditions face considerable challenges in navigating the medical and psychosocial aspects of complex chronic illness management. They experience anticipatory grief, isolation, a loss of agency and control, a fear of being misunderstood by their child’s medical team, the burden of decision-making and a fear of decisional regret, all while seeking to be a ‘good parent’ to their child. Palliative medicine principles including an emphasis on…

While some literature and organizational documentation exists describing interprofessional education (IPE) team resources and institutional structures, little is shared regarding the teamwork, communication, and roles and responsibilities within IPE teams. In line with the Nexus Summit theme “Developing and Sustaining Leadership in Interprofessional Practice and Education,” this seminar session presents the perspectives of the University of Minnesota Center for Interprofessional Health (CIH…

This 60-minute seminar will immerse participants in the transformative potential of the metaverse as a tool for advancing interprofessional education (IPE). Building on an institutional case study from West Coast University, the presenters will demonstrate how immersive virtual environments were used to reimagine a traditional IPE Day—creating an inclusive, engaging, and accessible space where learners from multiple health professions could collaborate in real time.Attendees will…

Abstract This interactive skill-building seminar introduces a virtual reality (VR)-based learning experience designed to strengthen leadership and communication skills among interprofessional rapid response teams. Developed through a collaboration between education, internal medicine, critical care, nursing, enterprise rapid response teams, and simulation, our model offers a practical and replicable framework for improving interprofessional collaboration in time-pressured clinical…

Ethical guidelines of principles and standards of conduct for a profession are generally referred to as ethical codes. Gifford (2024) compared the ethical codes of behavior analysts, occupational therapists, school psychologists, and speech-language pathologists, identifying common themes such as confidentiality, informed consent, welfare, and equality. While these professions share core values, differences in their ethical codes can impact collaboration. As healthcare professionals…

This active engagement seminar is designed to guide participants through tangible considerations in the development, implementation, and evolution of quality interprofessional education (IPE) at an academic institution or clinical training site. Guidance from the Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC) and National Collaborative to Improve the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) will be applied within participants’ institutional/organizational context to identify strategies…

This Seminar builds upon a Lightning Talk presented at the 2024 Nexus Summit. The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School has devoted a decade of effort toward bolstering its interprofessional education workforce. At the 2024 Summit, presenters shared results from a half-day workshop with faculty and learners on interprofessional collaborative practice. Feedback from participants following the workshop identified a relative…

Description: The seminar discusses development of robust interprofessional education (IPE) plan evaluation. Presenters will share best practices and program-level examples from Schools/Colleges of Pharmacy that illustrate IPE plan evaluations using a continuous quality improvement (cQI) approach. Examples of best practices discussed will include intentional IPE plan design through use of a blueprint to ensure plan fidelity, leveraging diverse data sources in multiple stakeholder groups to…

Migrant women in Canada —particularly those arriving alone or with dependents— face challenges such as socio-economic hardship, limited social support, and discrimination in the labour market; these co-occurring vulnerabilities can lead some women to engage in sex work for survival. Our research team aimed to examine the health and well-being of migrant women who engage in sex work, highlighting the compounded effects of these intersecting identities and producing implications for an…