Interprofessional Education (IPE) at PCOM's Philadelphia Campus
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Interprofessional Education 
IPE at PCOM's Philadelphia Campus

We at PCOM seek to train healthcare professionals who can provide person-centered, interprofessional, collaborative care across the life span; driven by osteopathic principles to optimize the wellness of the diverse population we serve.

PCOM will be a national leader in training healthcare professionals who can provide person-centered, interprofessional, collaborative care across the life span; we are driven by osteopathic principles to focus on patient safety, healthcare quality improvement, and optimizing the wellness of the diverse population we serve.

In pursuit of this vision, our graduates will become competent in the following domains through comprehensive and integrated curriculum, experiential learning, and patient care:

  1. Values, ethics and social justice;
  2. Roles and responsibilities;
  3. Interprofessional communication;
  4. Interprofessional, collaborative teamwork; and
  5. Collaborative decision-making clinical reasoning and critical thought informed by interprofessional education.

To intentionally develop collaborative healthcare practitioners by having them learn from, with, and about each others’ professions in relation to optimize patient-care that is evidence-based and in consideration of social determinants of health, professional, ethical, and cultural considerations in holistic health care.

  • Interact with mutual respect and appreciation for others’ roles and responsibilities to enhance the following practice areas: interprofessional and patient-provider communication about patient care, research and advocacy.
  • To establish shared values and ethical decision making and practice among healthcare professional students toward holistic patient-centered care, best patient outcomes, and multidisciplinary problem solving across the biopsychosocial cultural continuum of care.
  • To foster relationship-building values and the identity of a teamwork approach to patient care, community service and teaching, and clinical research for the betterment of the populations we serve, with an emphasis on underserved and disadvantaged populations.
  • For students to have ongoing self-reflection on thoughts, feelings and behaviors that enhance or inhibit interprofessional education and practice, and commit to lifelong learning toward ongoing awareness and openness to providing interprofessional education and care for the betterment of the community they serve.

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) and Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) students have IPE curriculum throughout their four years at PCOM. Physician assistant studies students participate during their didactic year, and mental health counseling students participate throughout their two years at PCOM.

Stephanie H. Felgoise, PhD, ABPP
Chief of Team-Based Care and Director of Interprofessional Education, Philadelphia Campus
Department Chair and Director of Clinical PsyD Program
Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology

Michael A. Becker, DO, MS, FACOFP
Associate Dean of Clinical Education
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Nikki Daher, MS, PA-C
Associate Professor, Department of Physician Assistant Studies

Ashley Poole, PsyD, LPC
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology

Alexis Bracy
Course Coordinator

Melanie Fields, MBA
Coordinator of Recruitment, Technology & IPE

Students in the following programs currently participate in interprofessional education courses at PCOM:

These courses include case reviews, seminars, medical crisis simulation, interprofessional experiences in healthcare clinics, research review, and a full-day symposium and discussion groups on sexual orientation and gender nonconformity.

Felgoise SH, Branch J, Poole A, Levy L, Becker M. Interprofessional Education: Collaboration and Learning in Action. J Am Osteopath Assoc 2019;119(9):612–619. doi: https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2019.109

 

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