APTR held the first Institute for Interprofessional Prevention Education on September 6-7, 2007 in Washington, DC. The goal of the Institute was to increase the emphasis on prevention in health professions education programs.

 

Download Files: Agenda Planning Committee & Faculty Post-Institute Projects 2008 Institute

The APTR Institute for interprofessional Prevention Education was designed to help members of academic health care faculties develop and promote projects that would be conducted by interprofessional teams of students in their local communities. Applicants were encouraged to focus on prevention areas cited in Healthy People 2010 and Steps to a HealthierUS. The criteria set forth for the post-Institute projects included both a curricula component and a community-based, service learning component. Applicants consisted of 3-member teams from the same Academic Health Center with each member representing a different health profession.

 

A variety of resource materials were made available for attendees to enable further refinement of the interprofessional prevention initiatives they were planning to implement on their campuses and in their communities. Many of the handouts and PowerPoint slide presentations can be found on the PERC--Prevention Education Resource Center website.

 

Through a team-based approach, attendees had the opportunity to become highly visible advocates for interprofessional prevention education at their Institutions, which could possibly lead to an expansion of similar approaches at academic centers throughout the U.S. During the past three years, APTR has planned and initiated enhanced preventive educational efforts in collaboration with the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force, an interprofessional group with representatives from  nursing, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and physician assistants.

 

Participating Institutions & Post-Institute Projects
The following institutions participated in the 2007 Institute. Applications were selected based on several criteria among which were diversity of the teams, strength of the proposed post-institute projects, and evidence of institutional support.

 

• Creighton University Medical Center, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions (.ppt)
• East Carolina University, The Brody School of Medicine and Greene County Health Care Inc. (.pdf)
• Loma Linda University (.ppt)
• Medical College of Georgia, Research Institute, Inc. (.pdf)
• Medical University of South Carolina (.ppt)
• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (.ppt)
• Thomas Jefferson College of Health Professions (.pdf)
• University of Connecticut College of Pharmacy (.pdf)
• University of Illinois at Chicago (.pdf)
• University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy (.ppt)
• University of  Missouri-Kansas City, School of Nursing
• University of Oklahoma, College of Nursing at Tulsa
• University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, School of Nursing (.ppt)
• Yeshiva University, Institute for Public Health Sciences (.pdf)

Funding

Funding for the Institute and its activities is provided in part through cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and in cooperation with the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.

 

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