Best Practices in Evaluation: A Seminar to Build and Strengthen Existing Interprofessional Education Evaluation Plans
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 triangulate data and determine plan effectiveness, and plan meta-evaluation to ensure the quality and credibility of evaluation practices. Presenters will use their own IPE plan evaluation as a model and will provide tools to help participants critically reflect on and assess evaluation practices at their own institutions. Throughout the seminar, participants will identify specific and actionable next steps to implement at home institutions to increase rigor, reliability, and validity of IPE plan evaluation.
Conference theme: The seminar will address the conference theme by discussing the evidence base for development and refinement of robust IPE plan evaluation, vital to meaningful IPE outcomes aligned with the Quadruple Aim. Through sharing best practices and program-level examples from Schools/Colleges of Pharmacy, the session supports quality improvement initiatives and equips participants with tools to critically assess and enhance their own IPE evaluation strategies in real world education and practice settings.
Learning objectives: After attending this session, the learner will be able to...
1. Discuss three best practices in the development and refinement of robust IPE plan evaluation.
2. Identify diverse data variables for consideration in a robust IPE plan.
3. Evaluate current IPE plan evaluation practices to identify opportunities for enhancing their validity, reliability, rigor, and overall effectiveness.
Actionable skills/practical knowledge: Upon completion of the seminar, participants should have mapped and assessed their home IPE plan evaluation. Participants will identify a minimum of two opportunities to enhance IPE plan evaluation to increase the validity, reliability, rigor, and/or overall effectiveness of their IPE plan evaluation.
Active learning: The seminar will use mixed-educational methods to maximize participant engagement throughout the seminar. Presenters will provide examples of best practices in IPE plan evaluation and will share a framework/worksheet to evaluate effectiveness, rigor, validity and reliability of participant IPE plan evaluation. Participants will be launched into small groups to work through completion of a structured worksheet and will engage in large group learning coupled with discussion and sharing of strategies.
Priority criteria: The seminar supports priority criteria by incorporating measurable learning outcomes through the application of cQI in IPE plan evaluation. Quality evaluation practices are vital to ensuring interprofessional learner engagement and perspective. While the primary focus is on educational institutions, the seminar emphasizes evaluation strategies that shape IPE plans capable of achieving outcomes related to advancement of the Quadruple Aim and addressing health-related social needs through interprofessional collaborative practice.