Health IPE Day
Preparing a Collaborative Health Care Workforce
Fall HIPE Day
Fall HIPE Day is held annually in September and focuses on Teamwork Strategies and Tools in Health Care Practice. Students across 9 health professions programs at UT, in addition to clinical pastoral education residents from Ascension Seton, work together on teams to examine how using TeamSTEPPS tools can positively impact teamwork behaviors and team performance to improve interprofessional collaborative practice and patient outcomes. The session is a 3-hour in-person experience that includes didactic learning, hands-on activities, and facilitated discussions. A faculty facilitator guides each team with their learning. Professions involved are athletic training, audiology, dietetics, medicine, nursing (BSN and Master's), pastoral care, pharmacy, psychology, social work, and speech-language pathology. Dan Richards, MD, Dell Medical School, and Veronica Young, PharmD, MPH, Center for Health IPE and College of Pharmacy, lead this session.
Spring HIPE Day
Spring HIPE Day is held annually in February and focuses on Access to Health Care Services Using an Interprofessional Lens. Students from across 9 health professions programs at UT, in addition to clinical pastoral education residents from Ascension Seton, work together on teams to understand how systems and environmental factors can impact health care services. This session is a 3-hour experience where interprofessional teams applied principles of ecological systems theory and trauma-informed care to a simulated family experience within health care; identified opportunities to facilitate access to different health care services, considering cost and insurance coverage, and explored challenges and solutions to accessing health care services through interprofessional discussions. Professions include athletic training, audiology, dietetics, medicine, nursing, pastoral care, pharmacy, psychology, social work, and speech-language pathology. Joan Asseff, LCSW-S and Sarah Sloan, LCSW-S, both with the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, and Veronica Young, HIPE Center and College of Pharmacy, lead this session.
Health IPE Microcredential Program
Both Fall and Spring HIPE Days are required for students to earn the IPE Foundations microcredential, which is a part of the Health IPE Microcredential Program. You can read more about this program and IPE Foundations here.