Lauren Collins, MD is Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Geriatrics at Thomas Jefferson University, Co-Director of Jefferson’s Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE) and former Director of Jefferson’s Health Mentors Program. In 2015, she was selected as one of five recipients of the Macy Faculty Scholars Program from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and selected as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice in Medicine in 2018. In addition, she has received the American Academy of Family Physicians' Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education, Jefferson’s IPE Education Award, three AAMC/Macy Collaborative Development Awards and a HRSA Geriatric Academic Career Award. Dr. Collins has served as Principal Investigator of a five year HRSA-funded undergraduate medical education grant, The Jefferson Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Predoctoral Education Project. Dr. Collins serves as a peer reviewer and/or editorial board member for six peer-reviewed journals, has over 20 peer-reviewed publications and over 50 national presentations, teaches and advises students, and serves on multiple committees for interprofessional education, practice and research. Dr. Collins’ career focus and passion is for IPE, curricular innovation and scholarship. Dr. Collins received her undergraduate degree with honors from Princeton University, and she completed her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College and a family medicine residency and geriatric medicine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
There remains a significant gap in the literature regarding validated tools to assess interprofessional education core competencies (IOM, 2015). Educators and clinicians at Jefferson University sought to address this gap by leveraging the IPEC competencies to create an easy-to-use tool: the Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide™ (JTOG). Initially used for the formative assessment of student teams, the application has been enhanced to allow for the 360-degree observations of teamwork behaviors in a multitude of educational and clinical settings.
This workshop takes a deep dive into the fifth and final “Practical Guide” in the series launched in 2017 by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, providing a value-added catalyst for its practical application. This Guide helps provide guidance for evaluating programs designed to strengthen teamwork capacity and performance. In this workshop, principles of evaluation are taught through didactics, examples, and experiential exercises rooted in real-world examples.