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Opening the Silo; Building an Interprofessional Resource Focused on End of Life

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Amy Greminger, MD
Faculty, Center for Interprofessional Health
University of Minnesota
Susan O'Conner-Von, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, FNAP
Professor of Nursing
University of Minnesota
Paige Palomaki, DVM
Veterinarian
Camden Pet Hospital
Alejandra Crevier, RN
Library Coordinator
University of Minnesota
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Keywords: interprofessional educationresourceend-of-life

This Lightning Talk has been grouped with others in a common theme. During the Summit session, presenters in this group will share their Lightning Talks in short presentations with a facilitated Q and A or group discussion. Please review the descriptions of the other Lightning Talks during this breakout session:

From Hours to Outcomes: Rethinking IPE Dose, Duration, and Competency Development Across the IPE Curriculum and Between Professions Patient Safety Starts with Us - Training Interprofessional Teams to Respond to Patient Prejudice Stress, Simulation, and Safety: Triangulating the Human Stress Response During Interprofessional Simulation Education

This lightning talk will describe the process of building an interprofessional resource focused on grief and the end of life. Work began in early 2022 to pull together a taskforce on Death, Dying, and Disposition, and this work was subsequently split into 3 subgroups. This group represents the resources/research subgroup.
This group identified a gap in a lack of a national database with an interprofessional focus focused on end of life materials. Members from the taskforce as a whole were asked to submit resources, and then an interprofessional group convened to decide on a forum/site for this, curate resources, and build a database.
This group is unique in its interprofessional approach to grief. We were fortunate to have representatives from library science, medicine, nursing, social work, and veterinary medicine, along with resources selected from a wider variety of professionals.
We are extremely proud to be able to curate this resource for the wider community, and hope that it is a helpful resource for students, faculty, practitioners, and the general public.