News & Events

Here we will provide ongoing updates about inteprofessional news and events at Stony Brook, announcements for upcoming regional, national and international IPECP conferences and requests for abstract submissions, as well as newsworthy research and innovations in interprofessional education and collaboration.

Excellence in Interprofessional Collaboration digital badge

The Center for Interprofessional Innovation is now offering an opportunity for students to earn a digital badge for Excellence in Inteprofessional Collaboration!  See info below to find out how to apply for this recognition!

This badge is awarded to students at SBU who have participated in interprofessional activities, including at least 1 experiential immersion (w/ or w/o simulation), demonstrated excellence in interprofessional collaboration with peers across professions, and submitted personal reflections about their experience.

The Center for Interprofessional Innovation defines an IPE learning experience as an activity that meets the following criteria:

• Involves learners from two or more health professions.

• Makes interprofessional learning explicit as one of its goals.

• Includes interactions among learners from different professions, intentional debriefing and reflection of their experience learning from, with and about each other.

• Intended outcomes explicitly address at least one of the four IPEC core competencies.

Earning Criteria

• Documented participation (faculty acknowledgement or copy of sign in for activity) in at least 3 interprofessional collaborative learning activities.

  • Non-experiential learning activities (for example, IP seminars or lectures) must total at least 5 hours.

  • At least 1 of the 3 IPE activities must be an immersion or experiential learning activity that includes faculty led debriefing and must be at least 6 hours.(2 shorter immersion activities may be used to fulfill this requirement - min 3 hours each)

    • Practicum

    • Service or community-based learning (i.e. PT, Med and Dental students provide functional assessments for older adults at Jefferson Ferry; Healthy Libraries Program)

    • Case-based learning (i.e. student teams are charged with developing a plan of care for patient with complex social and health needs)

    • Interprofessional project (i.e. participating in IPE graphic novel project; PT, OT and PA students collaborate to develop and deliver an innovative way to prevent falls in older adults)

    • Patient simulation

    • Problem-based learning (i.e. Hackathon, climate crisis summit workshop, "wicked problems" discussion groups)

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and respect peers across health professions.

• Reflections about their experience of each activity, particularly focusing on at least one of the IPEC competencies.

Application Process

• Complete and submit the Excellence in Interprofessional Collaboration Badge application.

• Contact Kelli Star Fox at kelli.fox@stonybrookmedicine.edu to obtain and application or to find out more information. 

• A completed Application includes:

  • A brief statement of why you wish to earn an IP Honors Distinction including your motivations and future aspirations as a future health or healthcare professional.

  • Documentation that you attended and participated in the IPE activity (faculty verification, copy of sign in sheet, or seminar agenda).

  • Individual reflections on each of the interprofessional educational activities in which you participated.

  • Final reflection on what you have learned about interprofessional collaborative practice, how your interprofessional educational experiences will serve you as you move into the professional realm, and what you have come to understand about the impact effective team collaboration has on patients’ care and their health outcomes, as well as on provider wellbeing and job satisfaction.

 

Interprofessional Graphic Novel Project

Interested in a fun and different interprofessional opportunity? Looking for students across professions to work on creating a graphic (cartoon) book about students', faculty, providers' and patients' experience working with an interprofessional healthcare team to produce a user friendly, easy to engage with resource for those interested in learning more about interprofessional collaborative learning and practice. We are collecting stories of people's positive, negative, funny, sad and neutral moments of being part of or treated by an interprofessional team. Please join us for sharing stories, conversation, and creating some engaging images to illustrate the aha moments and pitfalls of interprofessional collaboration.

Contact Kelli Fox at kelli.fox@stonybrookmedicine.edu