Vani
Patterson,
MPH, FNAP
Administrative Director, Center for Interprofessional Education
University of Michigan
Vani Patterson, MPH, is the Administrative Director for the University of Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education (CIPE). Her early career spanned working in the U.S Senate to community nutrition in Detroit. When she returned to the University of Michigan, she provided consultation to health care teams across the country to improve patient-centered care for adolescents. In witnessing the profound impact of collaborative care, Ms. Patterson was drawn to the work of the CIPE. Her current interests are in leadership and culture change to transform practice and education to enable collaborative care and advance the quintuple aims of health.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
A primary objective of the University of Michigan (U-M) Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE) is to equip graduates with the skills and competencies necessary to engage effectively with interprofessional teams, with the goal of improving quality of health and healthcare to patients, families, and communities. To advance this goal, the IPE Curriculum Committee launched a multi-phased initiative to define and implement a comprehensive IPE framework. This initiative focused on identifying necessary competencies and establishing a core curriculum for all relevant health professional…
The Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education (CIPE) analyzed enterprise data, including staff and faculty engagement and patient experience data, to explore teamwork horizontally across these datasets. Based on this approach, we ranked clinical sites in order of high and low performers. In our analysis, one clinic, referred to here as Family Medicine Clinic 1, was ranked among the top primary care clinics at Michigan Medicine and 40th overall among all 251 ambulatory care clinics. While the quantitative data reveals that we seized the opportunity to observe the clinical flow at FMC1…