Novel interprofessional collaborations – where technology and physical therapy meet.
Purpose: The purpose of this educational session is to share insight into our experience with developing interprofessional experiences between PT and Information Systems during a multi-year project that incorporated both simulated and real clinical patients.Methods and/or Description of Project: The role of emerging technologies in the rehabilitative care of patients continues to grow. In order to effectively provide rehabilitative care in a complex medical system, rehabilitative specialists need to be fluent in how technology can enhance their delivery of patient care. Establishing mechanisms for physical therapy students to gain fluency in the use of 3D technology is one such avenue. In an effort to facilitate our student’s competence with employing technologies, we developed an interprofessional series between students and faculty within our DPT program with students and faculty within the Department of Information Systems. Students from both disciplines had the opportunity to generate 3D technologies for simulated and real patients with medically complex issues. This presentation will review the challenges, strengths and outcome assessments of this multi-year collaborative project embedded into our DPT didactic curriculum.Results/Outcomes: Student surveys were distributed at key points during the multi-year project to evaluate PT student experiences with the interprofessional series, student understanding of 3D technology and its implications for patient care as well as obtain data from the patient's relative to their perception of the interprofessional experiences and generated 3D printed adaptive equipment.Conclusions/Relevance to the conference theme: Our Leadership Landscape: Perspectives from the Ground Level to 30,000 Feet: Consistent with the conference theme, “Leading Through Innovation And Simulation”, we believe these integrated interprofessional educational training opportunities are reflective of an innovative way to enhance PT’s understanding of how emerging technologies can be incorporated to improve patient care. The ability to include both simulated patient cases as well as real patients within the training program was a valuable component of this educational training series.References: HealthCare Technology Today. PT in Motion, (2015),vol. 7(10), 3644. McDonald, S., Comrie, N., Buehler, E. Carter, N., Dubin, B., Gordes, K. McCombeWaller, S., & Hurst, A. (2016). Uncovering challenges and opportunities for 3D printing assistive technology with physical therapists. ACM, Assets 2016, Reno, Nevada. Michalski, M.H., & Ross, J.S. (2014). The shape of things to come: 3D printing in medicine. Journal of American Medical Association, 312(21), 22132214.doi:10.1001/jama.2014.9542 Mota, C. (2011). The rise of personal fabrication.C&C ’11, Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on creativity and cognition, 279288. doi:10.1145/2069618.2069665. Paterson, A.M., Donnison, El, Bibb, R.J., & Campbell, R.I. (2014). Computer aided design to support fabrication of wrist splints using 3D printing: A feasibility study. Hand Therapy, 19(4), 102113. doi:10.1177/1758998314544802 Phillips, B., Zhao, H. (1993). Predictors of assistive technology abandonment. Assistive Technology, (5.1), 3645. Sheldon, M., Cavanaugh, J.T., Croninger, W., Osgood, W., Robnett, R., Seigle, J. & Simonsen, L. (2012). Preparing rehabilitation healthcare providers in the 21st century: Implementation of interprofessional education through an academic clinical site partnership. Work, 41(3), 269275. doi:10.3233/WOR20121299. Wise, H.H. Frost, J.S. Resnik, C., Davis, B.P., & Inglarsh, Z.A. (2015). Interprofessional education: An exploration in physical therapist education. Journal of Physical Therapy Education, 29(2), 7283.Course Objectives: 1. Identify the role of 3D technology in physical therapy education 2. Identify a minimum of 2 methods of incorporating 3D technology into a DPT program 3. Identify a minimum of 2 learning opportunities for PT students to collaborate with information system specialists in a rehabilitative setting 4. Identify a minimum of 2 learning experiences to incorporate interprofessional training between PT and Information Systems with real patientsInstructional Methods: Lecture with Question and AnswerTentative Outline/Schedule: 1. Introduction to 3D technology (10 min) 2. 3D technology and PT education (10 min) 3. Review of interprofessional educational series (40 min) 4. Review of assessment (strengths, areas for improvement, patient experiences, recommendations) (20min) 5. Question/Answer (10 min)