Students Research in Progress
Sunday, October 13, 2024
12:45 PM–02:15 PM
Abstract
Introduction:
Healthcare professionals in all disciplines employ a variety of communication techniques to facilitate collaborative patient care within their specialties. Learning how the flow of communication works between these disciplines can be a daunting task for new practitioners. The objective of this study was to examine if a virtual interprofessional education (IPE) event with pharmacy and medical students, involving inpatient/outpatient asynchronous opioid cases, would enhance students’ comfort levels of interacting with other healthcare professionals.
Research Question or Hypothesis: Does a virtual, asynchronous, inpatient/outpatient opioid IPE event enhance students’ comfort level of interacting with other healthcare professionals?
Study Design: This cohort study was completed between 2021 and 2023 with pharmacy and medical students. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted.
Methods: As part of Principles of Clinical Medicine and Interprofessional Education and Clinical Simulation courses, fourth-year medical students and second-year pharmacy students were randomly assigned into small, mixed discipline groups of two to three students. Each group was assigned the same activity comprising of both an asynchronous messaging component and a synchronous debriefing session both regarding the care of a patient with opioid use disorder. Students were surveyed before and after the event took place using a consisting of the revised IPEC Competency Self-Assessment Tool and 3 free-response questions. Student responses to scale questions were statistically analyzed and free-response answers were analyzed using thematic analyses.
Results: Qualitative and quantitative results will be presented
Conclusion: To be presented
Presenting Author
Ashlyn Man BSUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy
Authors
Leslie A. Hamilton PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FNCS, BCPS, BCCCP
University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy
Thaddeus McGiness PharmD
Carrie Stallings MD
University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine