SCALING UP BEST PRACTICES IN COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION1
A Public Workshop of the Global Forum on
Innovation in Health Professional Education
May 1–2, 2014
The Keck Center of the National Academies
Washington, DC 20001
DAY 1: MAY 1, 2014
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1 There are many opinions on what constitutes “community-based” health professional education (HPE). For the purposes of this workshop, community-based HPE includes education and training that takes place anywhere outside of the hospital setting (e.g., health clinics, churches, schools, health departments, and government offices).
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| 8:30am | BREAKFAST | |
| 9:00am | Welcome and orientation to the workshop | |
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- Warren Newton and Susan Scrimshaw, Workshop Co-Chairs |
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| SESSION I: ESTABLISHING A FRAMEWORK | ||
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Objective: To provide a framework for a common understanding of (1) the community context of health; (2) terminology; and (3) responsibilities of health professions, institutions, and students to the communities they serve. |
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| 9:10am | Responsibilities of and for the community | |
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- Jehan El-Bayoumi, Rodham Institute out of George Washington University |
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| Q&A | ||
| 10:00am | What I wish the health professional knew: Views from the street | |
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- Lisa Fitzpatrick, Daveda Hudson, and Marjorie Cooper-Smith, Care Center |
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| 10:15am | Facilitated table discussions. Question: Given what you heard, how would you educate health professionals in order to develop these qualities or skills? | |
| 10:25am | Reporting back | |
| 10:45am | BREAK | |
| SESSION II: SKILL SETS AND PEDAGOGY | ||
| 11:15am | Competencies for work in communities | |
| Objective: To identify and discuss competencies needed to engage with communities for improving health and health outcomes: What knowledge and skill sets are needed? How might these be imparted through learning? Facilitator: Beth Velde, Public Service and Community Relations, East Carolina University Speakers: | ||
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- Jusie Lydia Siega-Sur, University of the Philippines Manila School of Health Sciences |
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- Jennifer Morton, University of New England |
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| 12:15pm | LUNCH | |
| 1:15pm | Community-based HPE pedagogy: Framing foundational issues through debate | |
| Objective: To debate the pros and cons of how and when to expose health professional students to community-based experiences | ||
| Three short debates with facilitated discussion Facilitator: Warren Newton | ||
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- Admission Versus Training (Rick Kellerman and Sarita Verma) |
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- Longitudinal Versus Block (Lucinda Maine and Holly Wise) |
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- Virtual Versus Real (Pam Jeffries and Eric Holmboe) Voting Proposition: A priority in the development of health professions education should be development of robust simulations that can train and assess the variety and complexity of behaviors necessary to implement the Triple Aim. |
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| 2:35pm | Introduction to spreading and scaling up community-based HPE |
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- Warren Newton |
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| 2:45pm | BREAK |
| SESSION III-A: SPREAD AND SCALE-UP | |
| Objective: To discuss methods of improving population health outcomes by identifying and addressing gaps and by scaling up best practices in community-based experiential learning, and where along the pipeline from education to practice efforts might be concentrated. | |
| 3:15pm | Spreading community-based innovations |
| Moderator: Zohray Talib, Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center, George Washington University | |
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- Scott Hinkle, National Board for Certified Counselors’ Mental Health Facilitator Program |
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- Ruth Wageman, ReThink Health |
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| 4:15pm | Technology and innovations in community-based HPE |
| Moderator: Gillian Barclay, Aetna Foundation | |
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- Jeffrey Brenner, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers |
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- Sarah Freeman, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium |
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| 5:30pm | Closing remarks and adjournment |
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- Susan Scrimshaw |
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| 5:30pm | Poster session and reception (Keck Atrium) |
| DAY 2: MAY 2, 2014 | ||
| 8:00am | BREAKFAST | |
| 8:30am | Welcome back and instructions | |
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- Warren Newton, Workshop Co-Chair |
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| SESSION III-B: SPREAD AND SCALE-UP OF IPE | ||
| 8:45am | Breakout groups: | |
| Objective: To hold focused discussions on increasing the number of available interprofessional, community-based learning experiences through (1) scale-up of current, successful programs and (2) the introduction of new opportunities for community-based experiential learning. | ||
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| Main room: Innovations in community-based HPE | ||
| A webcast of community-based HPE examples (presentations are by invitation only) | ||
| Moderator: Stephen Shannon, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine | ||
| 10:45am | BREAK | |
| SESSION IV: IMPACTING OUTCOMES | ||
| 11:10am | How do we improve community outcomes? | |
| Introduction and remarks by Afaf Meleis, Global Forum Co-Chair | ||
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- Ruth Lubic, DC Developing Families Center |
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| 11:30am | Breakout group report back and discussion | |
| Moderator: Marietjie de Villiers, Stellenbosch University, South Africa | ||
| 1 – Group 1 leader: Donna Meyer | ||
| 2 – Group 2 leader: Kathy Kolasa | ||
| 3 – Group 3 leader: Virginia Adams | ||
| 12:15pm | Spreading innovations in HPE: Lessons learned over the last 2 days | |
| Objective: To discuss how the ideas presented in the workshop could be taken forward in an organized, systematic fashion that could enhance opportunities for education and training in communities that benefit both the community and the learner | ||
| Facilitator: Warren Newton, Workshop Co-Chair | ||
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| What are the three most important lessons learned for health professional engagement of and for the community? | ||
| What are the three most important lessons learned for how these can be accomplished through HPE? | ||
| 1:00pm | LUNCH AND ADJOURNMENT | |
| Room 100 will remain open until 5:00 pm for networking opportunities. | ||
