Joy
Bohannon, MALS
East Tennessee State University
Joy Bohannon earned a BS in Public Health from East Tennessee State University, where, as a student, she first encountered interdisciplinary education through the Community Partnerships Program, a forerunner of the current Interprofessional Education (IPE) program at the University. Her interdisciplinary experiences eventually led her to complete a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies in Gender and Diversity. Currently she serves as Center Coordinator for the Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Disease, and Immunity (CIIDI), an interprofessional research center. She is the IPE community site coordinator for the Ryan White Center of Excellence in HIV, CIIDI’s clinical arm.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Workshop Description:East Tennessee State University has successfully integrated clinical environments into its IPE curriculum, providing over 200 students from several different health professions training programs with first hand experiences in team based care. Seven partner sites host IPE groups comprised of entry-level students, providing opportunities to interact with members of the health care team, tour the active facility and interact with a patient. Our team will discuss how we navigated complex logistics and partnerships to build these experiences into our paradigm. Attendees will…
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…