
Jennifer
Evans,
MMS, PA-C
Assistant Professor, Clinical Coordinator
Gannon University
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Physician Assistant, Physical Therapy, and Occupational Therapy students participated in Tone Day: A Collaborative IPE experience, working as interprofessional teams to best manage simulated patients with tone dysfunction.
Design: Students dispersed into pre-assigned groups where they collaborated to best manage patient/client cases. Cases provided information on patient/client roles, functions, and goals. Prompts were designed to facilitate collaborative considerations of medical and therapeutic interventions.
Results: Student groups again demonstrated improved competencies in…