The Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice (CAIEP; formerly Center for Excellence in Collaborative Education, CECE) holds poster sessions to share the research and scholarship of student teams who participate in Interprofessional Team Immersion, Student-Led Mini-Grants, Clinical Experience, Event-Related and Service Learning community projects. The 2022 Spring session will be held Wednesday, April 27 at 12 p.m. on Facebook Live and UNE Livestream.
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness
Stephanie Burns and Danielle Clymer
We are an interprofessional team that worked together to educate and bring awareness to FASD. There are a lot of misconceptions regarding this disorder. After learning that there are no medical trainings for physicians regarding diagnosing which results in a lack of therapy, we were eager to bring awareness to this serious matter.
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Telehealth Strategies for a Long COVID Patient
Bianca Bustamente and Natalie Kieruzel
The implementation of telemedicine has risen greatly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and has prompted healthcare professionals to learn to adapt to this new environment, all while treating a new illness. As the pandemic progressed, practitioners began to treat patients with “long haul” COVID, or those who have experienced COVID symptoms for more than 4 weeks.
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The Power of Interprofessional Collaboration in Building Rapport: Addressing Long-COVID Through Telehealth
Molly L. Cherny, Jennifer Dunphy, Abigail Bloom, Devon Tomasi, Billy Hickey, and Angela Yu
Research poster detailing interprofessional collaboration between multiple healthcare fields in building rapport through motivational interviewing. Students learn to develop interprofessional skills collaborating with Osteopathic Medicine, Allopathic Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work fields to create the best plan of care for our Telehealth patient, Amanda. A focus is placed on remaining patient-centered when approaching our patient's struggles with long-COVID symptoms and exploring practical... Read More
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Telehealth for Dummies: A Novice’s Guide to Interprofessional Telehealth
Hanna Freeman, Sarah Haase, Kailey Hart, George Jarrouj, Meredith McCue, and Tali Twomey
This project provides a foundation for future interprofessional cohorts to navigate the complexities of telehealth for a team-based approach. We used a retrospective review of our interprofessional team immersion project (IPTI) to determine what we would continue in the future and what we would do differently to provide the best care for our patient.
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An Interprofessional Care Approach to Long COVID Treatment
Mary A. Garside, Kellianne Kinane, Kathryn Ryan, Swathi Bhuma, Kendra Sloan, and Megan Eagleston
An interprofessional approach to providing care to patients struggling with long COVID is superior in quality than individualized care. In a collaborative effort, we provided the three pillars of biological, social, and psychological support to our patients struggling with this disease. We did this by providing resources available in Maine that were aimed to provide personal structural support to our patient, categorized in all three pillars. We determined that... Read More
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Utilizing a Health Care Team to Foster Trust Through Telehealth Visits
Nicole G. Gosselin, Amelia Keane, Hope Pryor, Raissa Igihozo, Jason Angellano, and Jessica Creelman
Research presentation discusses care coordination for a patient with long COVID. The team utilized open-ended questioning to understand the patient experience in order to establish patient-directed care goals in collaboration with the health care team to foster trust, establish a cohesive care plan, and effectively address social determinants of health.
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Peer Health Education
Hannah Hutchins, Michaela Svendsen, and Madison Willis
The mission of the Peer Health Education program is to promote healthy choices and lifestyles through educating and empowering the campus community on a variety of health-related topics. A survey was distributed through the UNE community to learn what health topics students would want to learn about.
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UNE-WHA Wellness Fairs: Insight Into Aging Culture From An Interprofessional Student Team Perspective
Hannah Jones, Anna Cook, Mora Judd, Elisabelle Bocal, Joolie Geldner, Margaret Bolger, Jaia Hudson, Jennifer Vasquez, Todd Enders, Anne Thomas, Gregory Violette, Madeline Chase, and Caitlin Farrington
A poster highlighting the work of three interprofessional groups of students with the common goal to provide engaging, informative, and fun events to the residents of the Westbrook Housing Authority (WHA) in Westbrook, ME. Each interprofessional team worked together to plan a Mini-Wellness Fair at various Westbrook Housing buildings during the Summer and Fall of 2021, and the current team is in the process of planning the Spring 2022... Read More
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Multidisciplinary Telehealth Care Approach for our Patient with Long COVID
Megan A. Kain, Luke Davis, Lien Lintean, Andrea Stemm, Haley Yarber, Sophia Jones, and Bridget Kelly
This poster is a reflection and summary of our multidisciplinary telehealth approach to caring for a Long-COVID patient. Students in Allopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Physician Assistant, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Dentistry, Social Work, Nursing and Pharmacy programs at UNE & Rosalind Franklin University collaborated as a virtual primary care team. Our goal was to create a holistic plan of care that sought to address the most distressing concerns of... Read More
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Storytelling of Interprofessional Teamwork
Jessica Lee, Ashley Ronzo, Kendall Dolan, and Daniel Bergeron
We are an interprofessional team that worked together to discuss and treat a patient suffering from Long COVID-19. At the beginning, we came in with assumptions of other professions and carried our biases into the group. However, as we witnessed these professions interact with our Long COVID-19 patient, Amanda, our views and biases began to change. We were privileged to see how interprofessional teams interact and come together for... Read More
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Dental Health is Medical Health
Grace Linder and Hannah Post
In this presentation we seek to explore the intersection of dental and medical health and its implications on prevalent diseases in America. We have also developed an educational pamphlet dentists and physicians can provide to their patients with strategies for patients to maintain their oral and medical health.
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Dental Health is Medical Health
Grace Linder and Hannah Post
We discuss the overlap between dental and medical health as well as convey the need for an interdisciplinary approach to patient's care for optimal health outcomes. An educational pamphlet for dental and medical facilities to provide to patients accompanies this presentation.
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Interprofessional Team Immersion: Team Resilience
Megan Macfarlane, Sarah Kelley, Courtney Carver, Quinlan Cacic, Amanda Castle, and Emma Horne
Healthcare practitioners take on the responsibility of helping clients maintain or improve their quality of life. Interprofessional collaboration is a key aspect of treating clients in order to provide them with the best possible care. Each healthcare profession has their own therapeutic process, yet they compliment each other very well. The state of the research shows that high functioning healthcare teams can improve the quality of care provided to... Read More
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Client Centered Care through a Collaborative Lens to treat symptoms of Long Haul Covid
Kelsey N. Moulton, Eliza Burwell, Kennedy King, Zoi Sideris, and Brooke Sorbello
Research poster reflecting on the benefits and challenges of interprofessional collaboration in caring for a patient dealing with long term COVID-19 via simulated Telehealth appointments. Multiple discoveries were made as different professions worked together to overcome technological and educational barriers to care for a patient diagnosed with a poorly understood and novel medical condition. Health professions Involved included: Allopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Physician Assistant, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Dental Hygiene,... Read More
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Interprofessional Peer Leadership in Support of Teaching First Year Students
Carolyn S. Nevin, Colleen Moody, and Collyn Baeder
The Westbrook College of Health Professions (WCHP) has recruited a highly motivated group of sophomore, junior, and senior students, from across the health professions majors, to serve as Peer Teachers for the IHS 130 Interprofessional First Year Experience course for first-year health professions students. Peer Teachers are responsible for attending their weekly course section to co-lead the class with the instructor.
As Lead Peer Teachers, Colleen Moody and Carolyn... Read More
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How Word Choice Affects the Relationship Building Process with Patient/Clients
Kassandra Pierce, Morgan Voight, Madison Champagne, Tess Saibert, and Alexander Ferreira
An inter-professional discussion on the affects of word choice on the relationship building process with patient/clients.
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Improving Pharmacy Education and Patient Centered Care Through Virtual Reality
Kirsten Sullivan, Stephanie Nichols, Kenneth Lee McCall, Brian Piper, and Susan Woods
This qualitative research explored the impact of immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences on student pharmacist knowledge, attitudes, and anticipated behaviors, when used as a supplement to traditional didactic education. Participants completed one or more simulated VR experiences role-playing a person with Alzheimer's Disease, which included experiencing realistic visual and auditory disturbances, struggling with language comprehension, and displaying symptoms of aphasia. Post experience, students completed several short essay prompts. Overall,... Read More
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LGBTQ Health: Effective Training for Interprofessional Emerging Health Professionals
Evelyne Tchokochoua, Austin Vaughan, Austeja Subaciute, Emme MacDonald, Sarah Kelley, Connor MecSweeneey, and Eric Senneville
Studies find that cultural competency in healthcare practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients is significantly lacking across health professions’ curricula.1 LGBTQ patients are vulnerable to uninformed care as well as to biases and discrimination that, as a consequence, may result in healthcare avoidance and/or poor outcomes.2,3 Further, lack of knowledge regarding LGBTQ health contributes to practitioner discomfort and low confidence when addressing LGBTQ needs.1 The... Read More
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Promoting Optimism: An Interprofessional Approach to Treating Long Covid-19 via Telehealth
Kursten M. Tenhoor, Emily Hash, Emily Howe, Hannah Zazulak, Olivia Doran, Alana Bochanis, and Shruthi Bhuma
A poster entitled: Promoting Optimism: An Interprofessional Approach to Treating Long Covid-19 via Telehealth
The objective is to approach a case of chronic illness using an interprofessional team in order to collaboratively and positively address the holistic needs of a patient as a result of long-haul COVID-19
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Westbrook Housing Authority (WHA) Educational Seminar Series
Gunner Vallatini, Merima Kulosman, and Miguel Vidal
Students presented within the WHA and got the opportunity to perform a series of Health and Wellness seminars for the residents. Within each seminar, we presented on a specific theme and came with raffle prizes that were associated with that theme.