SIMULATED PATIENTS, REAL IPE LESSONS

There's no denying that we need to teach professionals-in-training how to work with professionals in other fields to achieve better outcomes for clients, as called for by-among others-the World Health Organization (bit.ly/who-ipe), the Institute of Medicine (bit.ly/iom-ipe) and ASHA's Strategic Pathway to Success (on.asha. org/ASHApathway). At JMU, our collaboration among the departments of communication sciences and disorders, nursing, and psychology explored these questions, with students consulting with faculty and each other on complex cases involving patients with multiple chronic conditions, such as brain injury, congestive heart failure and stroke. The project was part of a federal Health Resources and Services Administration training grant that supports cultivating interprofessional competencies of students training to work with patients with multiple chronic conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, congestive heart failure and stroke.