Alicia
Williams,
EdD, MA, CSAC
Associate Director, Center for Interprofessional Collaboration
East Tennessee State University
Alicia Williams, EdD, MA, CSAC is the Associate Director of the Center for Interprofessional Collaboration at East Tennessee State University. Dr. Williams earned her BS and MA in Psychology and her EdD in Educational Leadership from ETSU. She now specializes in interprofessional curriculum development, faculty development, online learning and course development, and educational program implementation. She serves on numerous advisory and planning committees as the IP representative at both ETSU and at the state level with TIPEC. Dr. Williams is also on the TIPEC Board of Directors. Her research interests are around Teaching and Learning in Interprofessional Education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background, including statement of problem, and aims:The WHO (2010) called for preparing faculty to facilitate IPE. However, faculty feel ill-prepared to facilitate IPE (Ratka et al., 2017). Most health professions students are not trained as IPE facilitators. IPE Programs are challenged to hire faculty ready to facilitate IPE. Hoffman, Harris and Rosenfield (2009) have outlined the importance of mentorship in IPE. DrPH students participated as part of a larger cohort of advanced learners to receive IPE facilitator training. Additionally, DrPH students committed to a second year of training…
This Lightning Talk describes an exercise for 3rd-year medical students- adaptable to other health professions clinical placements – that fosters intentional interprofessional engagement for learners and prepares them for collaborative practice. Objective: Great concern around the gap between IPE and IPCP experiences has been shared in the interprofessional community. Further, the LCME requires medical students to complete IPE/IPCP experiences with learning objectives and assessments prior to graduation. Increasing emphasis is being placed upon these activities occurring in clinical (as…
This lightning talk describes the creation of an interprofessional faculty fellowship through the collaboration of a College of Health Sciences and a Center for Interprofessional Collaboration at a state university. We cover the rationale, logistics (finances & faculty time allotment/distribution), proposed structure and intended measurable outcomes for success of the program.Recent publications have called for the systematic approach to advancing IPE research, suggesting findings should have reproducibility, replicability, and generalizability of findings (Gunaldo et al. 2023). More…
This lightning talk describes training for interprofessional cohorts of advanced learners. We cover the rationale, pilot and full implementation of the program, training topics, and assessment. Finally, we share lessons learned and modifications from initial implementation. The WHO (2010) called for preparing faculty to facilitate IPE. However, faculty feel ill-prepared to facilitate IPE (Ratka et al., 2017). Clinicians are not trained as educators or IPE facilitators. IPE Programs are challenged to hire faculty ready to facilitate IPE. We developed an innovative program training advanced…