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  Dismantling The Hierarchy: Interprofessional Collaboration For Best Patient Outcome

  Krysten Abboud, Carmen Guerra, Hannah Jones, Diana Liu, and Claire Puffer

  Research poster documenting a collaborative case reflection: Students learning to utilize interprofessional team collaboration to develop skills among Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Osteopathic Medicine, Allopathic Medicine, Dentistry, and Social Work fields to create the best plan of care for our Telehealth patient, Amanda Berry-Mantel.

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  The Impact Of Interprofessional Team Immersion On A Patient With Long-Term COVID

  Magaret Adeloye, Brian Lamboy, Leocadie Ngeufack, Hanna Roan, and Susan Rhodes

  Our project talks about how we utilized teleheath during our IPTI case centered around Long-Covid and the advantages/disadvantages to using telehealth within our team.

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  It’s About Connection! Lessons From Interprofessional Immersion

  Jordan Agabin, Jillian Battista, Isra El-Khateeb, Joanna Lamboy, Shannon McCrillis, and Dave Norman

  Poster representing the collaboration of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy students to bring monthly wellness seminars to the older adult population residing at Westbrook Housing Authority. Wellness series topics included pain management, balance, and nutrition with more to come in the spring semester.

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  Service Learning: Pamphlet Project - Malaria Prevention And Treatment

  Rene Agbortarh, Anna Beaudet, Katherine Kukay, Victoria Mitchell, Kirsten Sullivan, and Marissa White

  Video presentation of the new patient educational material on malaria prevention and treatment designed for the Ghana Cross Cultural Immersion program. The product was developed and designed in collaboration with students from the public health, pharmacy and nursing disciplines.

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  Cross-Disciplinary Care After ACL Rupture From A Telehealth Perspective

  Hannah Akre

  A multi-disciplinary team worked together to determine a care plan for a simulated client who was status post-anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Effective care and communication were evaluated by the care team and the patient following two telehealth consults. Social determinates of health were addressed as the client could not afford co-pays to receive rehabilitation services or follow-up appointments with the surgeon. The care plan for the patient was directed based on the health professional schools represented in the care team.

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  Adapting Motivational Interviewing To Telehealth: An Interprofessional Approach

  Nehal Basti, Alison Crooker, Zainab Jabor, Jacob McHugh, and Sneha Patel

  Research poster describing the following: Implementing telemedicine group dynamics to address chronic pain for individuals experiencing Long-COVID. How do we overcome the barriers of tele-health and use motivational interviewing across professions when few viable treatments exist for Long-COVID and how does rapport building come into play in these scenarios?

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  Westbrook Housing Authority Educational Seminar Series

  Jillian Battista, Merima Kulosman, Angela Marquez, Alexandra Rahilly, Erika Simburger, Gunner Vallatini, and Miguel Vidal

  Poster representing the collaboration of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy students to bring monthly wellness seminars to the older adult population residing at Westbrook Housing Authority. Wellness series topics included pain management, balance, and nutrition with more to come in the spring semester.

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  Interprofessional Approach To Long Covid Through Telehealth

  Elisabelle L. Bocal, Annelise DePaulo, Eram Fatima, Nicholas Goodrich, Brenna Keefe, Anna Mirianashivili, and Cam Thai

  This study examines diverse perspectives with which each member of an interprofessional healthcare team approaches a telehealth based, clinical simulation with a standardized patient and collaborates to accomplish the best possible care for their patients. Healthcare professions represented are: Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Social Work, Physical Therapy, Allopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine practitioner and Physician’s Assistant. The clinical case concerned a 40 year old female patient presenting with illness consistent with Long Haul Covid and is seeking treatment for her chronic fatigue, headaches, and overall restlessness. Team members met with the patient for two sessions. Each session consisted of a 20 min patient encounter followed by a 10 min team debrief and then another 20 min patient encounter. The team had time to meet before the first encounter and in between the two encounters to plan an IP approach to treatment. The team also debriefed afterwards regarding challenges and opportunities. Team interactions ultimately highlighted interprofessional interactions to efficiently and effectively care for the patient and her partner. The opportunities and challenges of working as an interprofessional team using a telehealth platform will also be discussed.

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  Social Determinants of Health Month: An Expansion Into Interprofessional Education

  Elisabelle L. Bocal, Jesse Katon, Katie Santanello, and Austin Vaughan

  Throughout the month of November, various student groups will host guest lecturers, student and physician panels, and alternative opportunities for the UNE community to learn about factors impacting health. During SDoHM, UNE graduate students, faculty, staff and community members will explore conditions in which people live, grow, work, learn, practice religion, and age that impact individual health, while also learning about systems of oppression that perpetuate those conditions and disparities in healthcare. The events will encourage participants to think about how we might affect positive change in our communities and in our future patient populations. Furthermore, throughout SDoHM, students will be provided resources and virtual learning opportunities about the intersections of healthcare and social injustice, environmental racism, and disenfranchisement, underrepresentation, and discrimination in medicine.

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  Student Involvement in Interprofessional Work & Perceived Impact On Future Collaboration

  Elisabelle L. Bocal, Michaela Myerson, William Rinaldi, and Katie Santanello

  After experiencing the multifaceted benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to pandemic planning, our multi-disciplinary team will conduct further research on interprofessional academic programming. Through this experience, we noticed that interprofessional work has benefited our education. Specifically, we seek to understand if our experiences, which influence our proposed hypotheses, align with the broader population and indicate a trend. We hypothesize that an interprofessional approach to educating the next generation of healthcare leaders will (1) enhance the pedagogical methods of multiple healthcare disciplines, thus addressing current knowledge gaps across silos; (2) improve students’ experience; and (3) improve and impact the effectiveness of the delivery of services and patient care from providers in the future. The team stipulates that interprofessional education, referenced as an intervention, addresses interprofessional challenges, which normally hinder professional practice. Additionally, interprofessional education has the potential to enforce provider attention to healthcare outcomes such as access and inequity.

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  The Many Consequences Of Long Term COVID: A Team Effort

  Kari Brown, Kassi Brandow, and Alec Daigle

  Long COVID is a newly emerging diagnosis in the healthcare world. Due to the diversity of symptoms, an interprofessional approach to patient care is necessary to provide the best care to patients. This poster discusses the many possible consequences of long COVID and how our team approach was used to provide treatment to our patient. Our team included a variety of professions and engaged through a telehealth platform in a simulated case.

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  Navigating Mistrust Of The Healthcare System Through Interprofessional Collaboration

  Skylah Buchanan, Angeline Harville, and Lindsey Robinson

  Research poster describing the following: The mistrust of patients towards healthcare professionals most of the time is caused by past negative medical experiences. Also, the level of trust in the health care system varies with age, race, gender, geography, and socioeconomic status. Generally, low-income patients trust the healthcare system less than higher income patients; those who are less healthy trust it less than those in better health; racial and ethnic minorities are more concerned than the general population about racial inequities when they receive healthcare. For instance, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment was conducted on African-American males between 1932-1972 by United States PHS and CDC. The study population was a group of nearly 400 African Americans with syphilis. The purpose of the study was to observe the effects of the disease when untreated, though by the end of the study it was entirely treatable. The men were intentionally not informed of the nature of the experiment, and more than 100 died as a result. Thus, this decline in trust endangers patient’s lives and well-being. Our research poster is designed to help healthcare professionals build trust with those that don’t trust the healthcare system and share our experience from our simulated live patient Amanda.

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  Interprofessional Adaptive Sled Hockey Program

  Maddie Caron, Emily Foy, Meghan Hickey, Jadin James, Abigail Leclerc, Kailey McCrorey, Kaline E. Mulvihill, Kaitlyn Knox, Kaleigh Swainamer, Theresa Thierer, and Jillian Witwicki

  Our interprofessional team is working to develop an ongoing adaptive sled hockey program at UNE’s Biddeford campus. It is our goal to facilitate recreational activities for individuals with disabilities to develop skills, enhance independence, and provide enjoyment through active recreation. Having access to and participating in recreational sports is integral of a well-rounded life for every person. We hope to create a collaborative experience for all UNE students and for individuals with disabilities within our community.

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  Expanding Our Scopes Through Interprofessional Care In Long-Haul COVID

  Kelsey Christensen, Arjumand Fatima, Madeline Kelchlin, Kelsey Pelletier, and Reilly Staples

  The objective of this project was to approach a patient case from an interprofessional team approach to collaboratively address the multiple health needs as a result of long-haul COVID.

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  Service Learning: Ghana Cross-Cultural Health Immersion: Medication Label Redesign

  Shannon Fitzpatrick, Meghan Larson, Sarah Mayrose, and Lyse Munezero

  Video presentation detailing the work of an interprofessional team of UNE students and healthcare professionals from Ghana to redesign medication labels, develop instructions for use, and create a label usability evaluation tool. These products are intended for use on future service trips to community health clinics in Ghana in the cities of Sekondi and Takoradi through the UNE Ghana Cross-Cultural Health Immersion program.