Welcome

Welcome to the BuckIPE Facilitator Resource Page

BuckIPE is the Ohio State University’s framework for interprofessional education. The BuckIPE Common Curriculum provides an evidence-based foundation for students to learn, practice, apply, build upon, and integrate interprofessional collaborative practice competencies into their respective professions and disciplines. Through BuckIPE, we aim to improve health and health outcomes for everyone by preparing a resilient, agile, and innovative healthcare workforce. 

BuckIPE Facilitators are faculty, staff, preceptors, community partners, graduate students, residents, fellows, and peer leaders who enable interprofessional learning and are passionate about teaching and learning. 

Facilitators teach and coach interprofessional collaborative practice competencies, ensure all learners can participate in a psychologically safe environment, share their experiences and lessons learned about effective interprofessional teamwork, and invite team members to share their varied perspectives. 

Specifically, facilitators: 

  • Support students’ attainment of interprofessional collaboration competencies.
  • Ensure teams operate effectively by coaching collaboration, communication, and teamwork. 
  • Engage students in a manner that leads them to a better understanding of interprofessional collaboration. 
  • Answer questions about the case/activity or the expected learning outcomes. 
  • Provide feedback and strategic input throughout the learning process. 
  • Evaluate and assess students to ensure that the core competencies of IPE are met. 

Qualifications  

Facilitators have some experience working in interprofessional teams (as a patient, client, care provider, educator, or community sector leader) and have good communication skills. Effective facilitators are non-authoritarian, curious, patient, flexible, intuitive, organized, confident, respectful, and open-minded. In addition, they are agile, able to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty, and eager to learn. Facilitators do NOT need to have a named clinical profession or discipline. 

Time Commitment 

In general, facilitators spend approximately 1.5 hours in preparation for each IPE learning experience they facilitate; detailing the logistics, reviewing key content and teaching/learning points, and reviewing their role in assessing and evaluating students and programming. In the clinic or community, the amount of time facilitators spend in preparation is entirely individually based and grounded in the setting in which interprofessional learning and care occur. 

 

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