Using a Complexity Tool with Geriatric Patients Teaches Residents Roles of Interprofessional Teams
Start Date
5-19-2012 2:00 PM
End Date
5-19-2012 2:15 PM
Description
Purpose: To improve Internal Medicine (IM) resident recognition of roles of interprofessional teams (IPTs).
Background: The Minnesota Complexity Assessment Method (MCAM) tool evaluates person-specific factors that interfere with usual decision-making and can highlight roles for IPTs.
Description: For this mini-course, IM residents completed an online, audio, PowerPoint lecture describing the MCAM tool and roles of IPTs. IM residents met with the geriatrician faculty member who demonstrated how to use the MCAM tool and residents practiced with the tool. During the IPT conference the MCAM tool was applied.
Results: Twenty IM residents completed the mini-course. Results comparing pre- and post-tests demonstrate movement towards greater understanding of IPT care. There were higher average agreement ratings in the post-test compared to the pre-test for: “interdisciplinary health professionals know each other’s roles,” “I know when my patient needs an interdisciplinary team” and “interdisciplinary information tells us about disease progression;” Residents agreed that the mini-course was useful to their practice (40% agreed and 60% strongly agreed) and that MCAM was a useful tool (70% agreed, 25% strongly agreed and 5% undecided).
Conclusions: For IM residents, using the MCAM tool for evaluation of patient complexity in an IPT setting appears to be a successful strategy to highlight the roles of IPT care. Response to this mini-course suggests that residents may be receptive to additional opportunities for learning about, from, and with other health professionals to improve outcomes for at risk seniors.
Relevance to IPE/IPP: IM residents will learn roles of interprofessional teams.
Learning Objectives: After this presentation, participants will:
1. Recognize a useful definition for patient complexity.
2. State characteristics that make a patient complex.
3. Describe how a complexity tool can be used to highlight the roles of interprofessional teams.
Using a Complexity Tool with Geriatric Patients Teaches Residents Roles of Interprofessional Teams
Purpose: To improve Internal Medicine (IM) resident recognition of roles of interprofessional teams (IPTs).
Background: The Minnesota Complexity Assessment Method (MCAM) tool evaluates person-specific factors that interfere with usual decision-making and can highlight roles for IPTs.
Description: For this mini-course, IM residents completed an online, audio, PowerPoint lecture describing the MCAM tool and roles of IPTs. IM residents met with the geriatrician faculty member who demonstrated how to use the MCAM tool and residents practiced with the tool. During the IPT conference the MCAM tool was applied.
Results: Twenty IM residents completed the mini-course. Results comparing pre- and post-tests demonstrate movement towards greater understanding of IPT care. There were higher average agreement ratings in the post-test compared to the pre-test for: “interdisciplinary health professionals know each other’s roles,” “I know when my patient needs an interdisciplinary team” and “interdisciplinary information tells us about disease progression;” Residents agreed that the mini-course was useful to their practice (40% agreed and 60% strongly agreed) and that MCAM was a useful tool (70% agreed, 25% strongly agreed and 5% undecided).
Conclusions: For IM residents, using the MCAM tool for evaluation of patient complexity in an IPT setting appears to be a successful strategy to highlight the roles of IPT care. Response to this mini-course suggests that residents may be receptive to additional opportunities for learning about, from, and with other health professionals to improve outcomes for at risk seniors.
Relevance to IPE/IPP: IM residents will learn roles of interprofessional teams.
Learning Objectives: After this presentation, participants will:
1. Recognize a useful definition for patient complexity.
2. State characteristics that make a patient complex.
3. Describe how a complexity tool can be used to highlight the roles of interprofessional teams.
