Coaches for the Interprofessional Case Competition
A coach is assigned to each student team to serve as a resource person to assist them in developing their plan of care and presentation for the case competition. Coaches will attend a coach orientation and team orientation session on the same day.
Key Points:
- Coaches will attend the team orientation and meet with their teams to help them get started.
- Coaches will encourage the team to develop a quick plan at the orientation regarding how they will function, how they will communicate with each other, etc.
- Coaches should plan to meet at least one additional time with their team, or additionally as mutually determined by the team and coach.
- One week before their presentation date, the teams should send their presentation draft to their coach and, if they wish, the coach can help them schedule a rehearsal.
- The coach can assist the team by:
- Encouraging them to set their first meeting
- Keeping the team on track
- Helping the team remain focused on the collaborative competencies
- Advise the team regarding available resources (personal contacts, journal sources, books, individuals from other professions, etc.)
- Encouraging the team to work together collaboratively
- Helping teams set up a presentation rehearsal and offering feedback if they wish
It is important for faculty/professional coaches to allow students to do their own research, develop their own recommendations, and create their own presentation for the case competition.
Judges for the Interprofessional Case Competition
Judges will view the student presentations, score the presentations using a standardized rubric, and provide feedback to student teams. Judges need to be available to attend student team presentations. Judges are expected to attend a brief orientation session immediately prior to the team case competition day, beginning 4/7/20 at 4:30 p.m. The competition starts at 5:30 p.m.
Key Points:
- Review the case information provided.
- A team of four to five students from different professions are asked to develop a comprehensive, interprofessional plan of care for the patient in this case to care for this patient and plan for discharge back to the community. The team has one month to meet, work together, conduct research, and devise the plan of care they will present to you.
- Their presentation should meet the criteria laid out in the case grading rubric.
- We will provide an orientation prior to the presentations (food will be provided). This orientation is useful because you will get a brief overview of the case and be ready to score.
General Comments on Judging:
- Some students are undergraduates or are at the beginning of their discipline-specific professional education and have little experience in clinical settings. You can adjust your expectations accordingly and do not need to worry about the quality of the details or discipline-specific information.
- Students may not always be 100 percent accurate with their medical suggestions, but should show evidence of reasonable rationale for planned actions.
- We hope to see that the team presentations make a good attempt at the following:
- Adequate analysis of the information provided to identify patient problems.
- Clear evidence that the patient and care partners were the focus of care.
- Recommendations for care interventions unburdened from concerns about health care financing or years of experience with entrenched beliefs.
- Evidence of developing interprofessional competencies – working together as a team, valuing their own and others’ contributions, respectful teamwork, communication, values and ethics.
- Ideally, teams will come up with some innovative strategies for managing challenges of care and teamwork in caring for the patient and family.
- The presentation should indicate that there was intentional/deliberate interprofessional collaboration.
- Evidence that team members learned more about each other and additional disciplines as they prepared their plan.
- Evidence of self- and team-reflection on challenges and rewards of a variety of viewpoints and strengths on team and collaboration.