Brian
Cross, PharmD, BCACP
East Tennessee State University
Dr. Cross is currently an Associate Professor and Vice-Chair for the Department of Pharmacy Practice at ETSU College of Pharmacy. He is also the Director for Interprofessional Education at the ETSU Academic Health Sciences Center, which includes fifteen professional programs. He has practiced in many areas including the Indian Health Service, the VA Health System, Endocrinology and Cardiology, Academic Practices, and Multispecialty Private Practice Medical Groups. He has been involved in the creation of new clinical practices in all of these arenas. He has extensive clinical experience and scholarly activity in collaborative practice.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The lack of interprofessional training for providers entering the healthcare system was identified as a major omission in the preparation of healthcare workers in the early 2000's. Subsequently, the World Health Organization identified a need for the development of Interprofessional education (IPE) programs to adequately prepare providers to work in teams. Since then, the pedagogy and evidence base for IPE has grown. However, there has been little focus on preparing faculty to teach from an interprofessional model. Ratka et al. conducted a literature review of articles appearing in several…
ETSU implemented the first year of a 2-year longitudinal IPE experience within the five colleges of the ETSU Academic Health Sciences Center (AHSC). The four educational competencies of IPEC were used to create experience threads. Each semester two experience threads are covered; one consists of a simulation experience to practice the foundational principles in a safe environment, and the other a field experience to implement the foundational principle in a clinical setting. The majority of the content for experience threads and simulation experiences were implemented for three cohorts of…