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LINC Executive Director Featured in Academic Pharmacy Now Cover Story
April 17, 2024
Published by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the news magazine Academic Pharmacy Now highlights the work of AACP member pharmacy schools and faculty in advancing pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice, and service. The April 2024 issue, “The Intricacies of Aging,” explores how student pharmacists benefit from a curriculum that integrates components of [...]
UT Health San Antonio Contributes to Successful International Interprofessional Case Competition
March 19, 2024
The 3rd Annual International Interprofessional Case Competition (I2C2), which UT Health San Antonio helped launch in 2021, recently concluded with 62 students from 11 universities assigned to 12 interprofessional teams. This year's I2C2 asked students from diverse professions, institutions, and countries to tackle a complex clinical case using innovative interprofessional solutions. Each team submitted a [...]
LINC Members Contribute to 2024 Shine Academy Conference
March 12, 2024
The University of Texas System’s Kenneth I. Shine, MD, Academy of Health Science Education (Shine Academy) supports and promotes excellence in all aspects of health science education, including educational research, scholarship, and leadership at the eight UT System Health Science institutions. The Shine Academy’s 2024 Innovations in Health Science Education Conference was held on February [...]
LINC Seed Grant Program Manuscript Highlights IPE Innovations & Success at UT Health San Antonio
February 29, 2024
One critical component of UT Health San Antonio’s Quality Enhancement Plan was the development and implementation of a seed grant program to incentivize faculty engagement and innovation in interprofessional education (IPE). A team of LINC contributors led by Drs. Rekha Kar and Rebecca Moote recently analyzed outcomes from the first four annual funding cycles, which [...]
Highlights from January’s LINC Community-Building Events
February 16, 2024
In January, the LINC Student Council hosted its second event in the LINC Interprofessional Student Social Series. 104 students from 9 programs across 5 schools collaborated in interprofessional groups to create Valentine’s Cards for distribution to patients at Methodist Children’s Hospital. The event showcased different programs and healthcare perspectives coming together to support a charitable [...]
LINC Executive Director Co-Authors 2023 Update to IPEC Core Competencies
January 8, 2024
The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) is a coalition of 22 health professions education associations and partner organizations dedicated to shaping the future of interprofessional education and practice. Central to IPEC's influence is the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. This seminal report, first published in 2011, is updated every 5-7 years to reflect contemporary [...]
LINC Team Awarded IPEC Best Poster
December 19, 2023
The LINC Simulation IPE Initiative presented their most recent dissemination product, “A telehealth caregiver simulation to improve interprofessional communication and teamwork,” at the 2023 IPEC Poster Fair on November 29, 2023. The team, led by Dr. Sadie Trammell Velasquez, Associate Professor/Clinical and Assistant Dean for Preclinical Curriculum in the Long School of Medicine, was awarded [...]
October LINC Events Build Community
December 4, 2023
Inspired by the faculty- and staff-focused Community of LINC Scholars events, the LINC Student Council launched an interprofessional networking series for students on October 25. A total of 39 students representing 5 schools and 12 educational programs participated in the event, where they learned about, from, and with one another through conversation and games, including [...]
2022 LINC Seed Grant Project Data Leads to 2023 ASAHP Interprofessional Collaboration Research Grant
October 6, 2023
Each year, the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) selects 2-3 projects to award the ASAHP Interprofessional Collaboration Research Grant. This grant program, led by ASAHP’s Research Committee, was created to support innovative research projects with the highest potential to generate new knowledge and paradigms toward success in interprofessional collaboration. Drs. Catherine Torrington Eaton [...]
August Community of LINC Scholars Event Celebrates Issues in Mental Health Nursing Publication
September 20, 2023
The second Community of LINC Scholars event took place on August 4. This event provided a forum for collaborative engagement, networking, and updates from a wide variety of LINC teams. A highlight of the occasion was the recognition of Dr. Pamela Recto and co-authors for their publication in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, "Teaching Person-Centered Care [...]