Course Description & Speaker Bio
Interprofessional Collaborative Health Care Model
Presented by Blase Brown, DDS, MS
Course Description
Health care leaders within the U.S. and beyond recognize the need for team-based and collaborative care models – starting with students and continuing into professional settings – to ensure the highest quality of care and lowest cost in all
settings and professions. Although the idea of interprofessional education and care has been voiced for over 50 years, it was not until the early 2000s when the Institute of Medicine issued a series of reports that raised concerns about medical errors,
patient safety, and the quality of health care delivered in the United States, and noted a link to the need for health professionals to work better together in teams. This lack of teamwork, collaboration, and communication was leading to a variety
of issues: suboptimal patient experience, challenges in our population’s health, spiraling costs, medical errors, and provider burnout.
Adopting the WHO framework for action on interprofessional education and collaborative practice
and paralleling changes in healthcare education/practice within the developed world, six U.S. healthcare education organizations created the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC). The original 2011 collaborative focused its recommendations
on the professions of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and public health. IPEC continues to engage multiple health professions in its efforts to guide curriculum development across health professions schools. IPEC now represents 21 national
health professions associations and, together with NEXUS (National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education), aims to link interprofessional education and health systems redesign with an emphasis on community and practice. The course will
further describe the goals and challenges that the dental profession has within this IPE framework, given the historically insular position oral healthcare has within healthcare systems. Examples of IPE oral health educational initiatives will be
highlighted with an emphasis on their intended outcomes for practice and community health.
Current community models of care being implemented will be presented as examples of real-world outcomes from IPE initiatives. These models will be
contrasted with traditional and contemporary dental practices, discussing the challenges for oral healthcare to be effectively integrated in collaborative healthcare within our communities.
Course Objectives
After this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the development of interprofessional education and collaborative practice to transform healthcare education and care together.
- Describe the role of dentistry and the American Dental Education Association in the Interprofessional Education Collaborative.
- Describe models of practice that challenge tradition and create deeply connected, integrated interprofessional healthcare.
- Describe the challenges for dentistry to effectively integrate in collaborative healthcare.
About the Speaker
Blase Brown, DDS, MS, is Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Small Group Facilitation in the Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences Department at UIC College of Dentistry. Dentistry combined Dr. Brown’s interest in science, ability, and fine motor activities, and he saw healthcare as a part of a meaningful life where he could contribute to the welfare of his community. Originally, he wanted to help with special patient education and had previously taught histology at University of Detroit. However, he wanted to continue his activities in dental education and since then has spent 17 years at UIC. Dr. Brown’s professional interests include Education and pedagogy, faculty development, moral philosophy, ethics of healthcare financing, special patient care education and advocacy, and the history of science.