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Interprofessional Education and the Profession of Medicine. Mark Earnest MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Director of Interprofessional Education University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Lindbergh vs Sullenberger. “The Lone Eagle” Hypercompetent Compulsive micromanager
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Interprofessional Education and the Profession of Medicine Mark Earnest MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Director of Interprofessional Education University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Lindbergh vs Sullenberger • “The Lone Eagle” • Hypercompetent • Compulsive micromanager • Routinely Heroic • “Captain Cool” • Competent always • Focus on Systems and Safety • Heroism necessary once
"One way of looking at this might be that for 42 years, I've been making small, regular deposits in this bank of experience, education and training. And on January 15 the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal.“ • Chesley Sullenberger
How did aviation succeed? A change in culture... …not people Natural Selection?
What’s our problem? Our own mythology and archetypes
What’s our problem? A stunted and flawed notion of leadership • “Give orders” • “Facilitate, create, gather, negotiate…”
Power and performance • Those at the top are poor judges of team function • Power = Knowledge • Collective intelligence > Individual intelligence • Insecurities and power relationships
What’s our task? • Recognize our critical role in collaborative practice and IPE • Suit up • Be champions
What’s our task? Professional identity development • “Not what do I do, but what am I a part of?” • Professionalize students in context • Learning in a team context
How do we foster this? • Shared curricula • Communication, ethics, team function, leadership… • Other core offerings? • Team-based pedagogies • Co-curricular offerings • Safe opportunities for practice (simulations)
Challenges • Culture of education • Persistent passive pedagogies • Stubborn content • Assessment • Information management > mastery • Institutionalized priorities • NBME • Faculty roles and rewards • Legacy expectations
Challenges • Culture of practice … can we wag the dog? • Lack of leaders for leadership Clinical competence = Organizational competence Expanded definition of clinical competence • Misalignment of clinical and educational missions
IPE = Frequent deposits of experience… So that they need only very rare withdrawals