Interprofessional Innovation: Healthcare Where People Live, Work, and Play
A transformed healthcare system will require radically reformed student thinkers. To begin to meet this need, the schools on the Indianapolis campus developed a course, called “Interprofessional Innovation Challenge: Healthcare Where People Live, Work and Play” to graduate students across disciplines beyond the traditional cluster of Health professions schools in the spring of 2015. The schools participated in this course based initiative were: IU School of Nursing, IU School of Medicine, IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, IU School of Informatics & Computing, Purdue School of Engineering Technology, Kelley Direct MBA Program, IU School of Liberal Arts, Herron School of Art & Design.
I, as a representative of Herron, contributed by incorporating a design process framework in the course design. The design process provided a shared process of inquiry and a cohesive user point of view that allowed students from diverse backgrounds to translate and integrate the disciplinary knowledge to solve a problem.
The faculty framed the course learning with the concept of interprofessional learning laboratory that is rooted in real-life innovation, discovery, and collaboration. Graduate students in collaborating schools joined a cohort and solved a real-world problem for over 16 weeks. The problems were presented in the case study format in partnering with the following community organizations.
- Improving patient medication adherence, MedRegister™, Spring 2015
- Implementing screening for lung cancer in VA patients, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Spring 2016
- Implementing New Global Guidelines for Injection Safety Pilot Country: Egypt, World Health Organization, Fall 2016
- Tackling Opioid Crisis, Governor’s Office of Drug Prevention, Treatment, and Enforcement, Spring 17
