Class Descriptions

Team-Based Clinical Decision Making

SW714

Credits:	2
Prerequisites:	None

Pathway Associations

Community Change
Global
Interpersonal Practice	Elective (Host)
Mgmt & Leadership
Policy & Political
Program Evaluation
Older Adults
Children & Families

Course Description

This interprofessional course is for student learners in the areas of advanced practice providers (medicine and advanced-practice nursing), dentistry, pharmacy, and social work. The course allows health professional students to gain an understanding of how each discipline contributes to the healthcare team, the importance of effective communication, and the role of team collaboration to clinical decision making.
Active participation in interprofessional groups which focus on clinical case discussions and team-based decision making is a focus.The course promotes health professional students gaining an understanding of how each discipline contributes to the healthcare team and the importance of effective communication and team collaboration to clinical decision making.

Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Define the unique roles that advanced practice providers, dentistry, pharmacy, and social work bring to the healthcare team.
2. Examine how differing viewpoints can affect patient-care decisions.
3. Recognize personal and team attributes that improve or compromise team effectiveness.
4. Develop team-based care plans for healthcare situations that synthesize available evidence and incorporate multiple perspectives (individual, family, providers).

Design

Through course activities that have students working in fixed interprofessional teams, several IPE competencies are reinforced including roles/responsibilities, teams/teamwork, values/ethics, and interprofessional communication. In addition to the weekly team assignments, all students participate in a simulation of a critical care patient in the simulation center, allowing for an opportunity to practice teamwork skills in a more real-word setting.

Intensive Focus on Privilege, Oppression, Diversity and Social Justice (PODS)

This course integrates PODS content and skills with a special emphasis on the identification of theories, practice and/or policies that promote social justice, illuminate injustices and are consistent with scientific and professional knowledge. Through the use of a variety of instructional methods, this course will support students developing a vision of social justice, learn to recognize and reduce mechanisms that support oppression and injustice, work toward social justice processes, apply intersectionality and intercultural frameworks and strengthen critical consciousness, self-knowledge and self-awareness to facilitate PODS learning.