1. Describe the health care needs of older adults and family caregivers.

2. Describe new paradigm of care for older adults.

3. Differentiate emerging principles in healthcare for elders.

1. Outline elements of a curriculum in chronic illness prevention model.

2. Formulate an action plan to incorporate chronic illness education into individual professional programs.

1. Describe an example of a longitudinal interprofessional education curriculum.

2. Identify strategies to evaluate outcomes of interprofessional education curricula.

3. Distinguish barriers and facilitators of an interprofessional education program.

1. Explain the complexity of healthcare and the impact on patient safety.

2. Describe the relationship between patient safety and an interprofessional approach to health care.

3. Identify elements of successful interprofessional patient safety programs.

1. Categorize the elements of successful interprofessional curricular design.

2. Produce an interprofessional action plan for existing courses.

1. Discuss the role of verbal and nonverbal communication skills in the patient encounter.

2. Adopt new tools for teaching and assessing communication skills with health professions students.

3. Devise an action plan for one strategy to promote training of culturally and linguistically competent healthcare professionals.

1. Demonstrate the utility and power of simulation and simulation scenarios in teaching and evaluation.

2. Discuss the development and implementation of selected interprofessional curricula.

Objectives:

1. Describe what interprofessional education entails.

2. Discuss the rationale for interprofessional education experiences.

3. List the elements of successful interprofessional programs.