IPE Talks and Presentations

MD-NP Inter-professional Clinical Performance Development (IPCPD) Initiative
University of Virginia Schools of Medicine and Nursing

Consistent with national and local efforts to promote advancements in Inter-professional Education (IPE), a logical first step at the clinical level is to establish a baseline comparison of nurse practitioner students' and third year clerkship students’ clinical performance.  This initiative is a collaborative research project between the Clinical Performance Education Center in the School of Medicine and the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing.  

The study will run from Spring, 2011 through Spring, 2013 starting with a baseline assessment of Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) students using the Clinical Performance Exam (CPX) required of all medical students at the end of the third year clerkships. Nurse practitioner and medical students will then be integrated in variable clinical education and evaluative experiences, selected on the bases of the baseline evaluation. Second year PNP and FNP student performance will then be compared with third year medical student performance on CPX after participation in integrative experiences. Following this evaluation, these educational and evaluative components will be maintained with an ongoing effort to revise to more appropriate practice level comparison, e.g., graduating NP students and first year residents. Dissemination of research findings will be accomplished via publications and presentations in Medical, Nursing, Education, and IPE literature and conferences.

Inter-professional education of NP students and MD students will improve understanding of professional knowledge and roles, thereby enhancing team work and health-care delivery in the future.  Funding for Phase I was obtained from Dr. Eugene Corbett’s Brodie Fund in the SOM and from Dean Fontaine in the SON to begin this process of inter-professional education at the logical first step of baseline evaluation.  Results of this baseline performance evaluation of second year (graduating) nurse practitioner students and third year medical students will be used to identify and plan appropriate inter-professional educational and evaluative experiences for Phase II.  Clinical Performance Examination dates are April 29 and 30, 2011.

For further information, contact the MD-NP Inter-professional Clinical Performance Development Committee:

Linda Eastham, MSN, RN, FNP
Instructor, UVa SON

Yvonne G. Newberry, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, AAHIVS
Clinical Instructor & Assistant Clerkship Director – OB/GYN – SOM
Assistant Professor – SON

Amy D. Boitnott, DNP, RN, FNP-BC
Assistant Professor & Director - Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program- SON
Nurse Practitioner UVA Department of Pediatrics
Anne Chapin
Assistant Professor in Medical Education – SOM

Eugene C. Corbett, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.P.
Bernard B. and Anne L. Brodie Professor of Medicine
Professor of Nursing
Assistant Dean for Clinical Skills Education
Director, UVA SOM Clinical Performance Education Center

We have 3 winners in the Collaborating Across Boarders III abstract competition. They are:

1. Heisterman, A.T., Manning, C. and Geldmacher, D., Transcending Boarders in Professional Education: A Model for Cross Disciplinary Education in a memory and Aging Care Clinic
2. Turner, H. Improving Acute Stroke patient Care with the Establishment of an Interprofessional Stroke Quality Support Team
3. Dwyer, E.J., Wilson, S. M., and Kaurfan, D., The Golden Hours: A multidisciplinary Intiative to Improve Outcomes and Decrease Length of Stay for the Extremely Premature Infant.

Each team will receive $1,000 to attend the conference in Tucson, AZ this fall. Congratulations!