Advisory Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in the Dietetics program
Description: This course will familiarize dietetics students with IPE through the lens of an allied health team and the patient perspective. Learners will examine their unique role as the nutrition expert on an interprofessional team. Using the IPE online modules, LIFE program and in-person workshops with the instructor.
Learning Objectives: LIFE Learning Objectives:
1.)Articulate understanding of interprofessional team roles and the value of each role in effective healthcare of patients and the community.
2.)Develop team work skills to work cooperatively and interdependently as a team member demonstrating preparedness, engagement and active collaboration using one’s unique professional knowledge and skills.
3.)Identify and describe responses, reactions, interactions of the various professional service providers that patients and families found beneficial or non-beneficial in their healthcare experience.
4.)Examine and articulate increased awareness of one’s own beliefs, culture, values and biases and how these impact engagement and care of patients and families.
5.)Identify and articulate an understanding of the social determinants impacting an individual patient’s illness experience and the impact on patient coping and functioning across the continuum of diagnosis, treatment and health outcomes.
6.)Consider a social-ecological model to reflect on diverse and multi-faceted dimensions of an individual patient-experience of illness including one’s sense of self, relationships, physical, mental and spiritual functioning, coping, etc.
IPE module Learning Objectives:
-Understand the value, context, and significance of IPE during health professional training to improve future licensed practice and patient health outcomes
-Recognize and describe the 5 IPE competencies
-Identify the attributes of a functioning interprofessional team, including how you might contribute to an effective team
-Identify how diverse social identities and backgrounds of an interprofessional team (including the patient) will impact how care is delivered and received
Overall course Learning Objectives:
-Learn about and engage in interprofessional education (IPE)
-Utilize reflective skills for lifelong learning
-Express yourself as the nutritional professional
-Seek feedback to meet and exceed personal standards of performance
-Articulate the impact that your public health nutrition experiences have on yourself and society
-Build and sustain a network of professional relationships
