Enhancing Interprofessional Education and Healthcare: Certificate in Advanced Behavioral Interventions among Multiple Populations

Overview: Certificate in Advanced Behavioral Interventions among Multiple Populations (CABISAM) is an interprofessional education initiative with didactic and simulated learning to enhance student training across professions and prepare them for the healthcare workforce in practice among diverse populations.Proposal text: The Certificate in Advanced Behavioral Interventions among Multiple Populations (CABISAM) is a social work-led interprofessional education (IPE) initiative. Students and faculty from social work, nursing, and medicine engage in didactic and experiential education to gain advanced clinical and leadership knowledge of interprofessional approaches to screening, brief intervention, and referral for treatment (SBIRT) (Barr et al., 2005; Jones & Phillips, 2016). CABISAM enriches IPE, focusing on healthcare interventions for marginalized populations across diverse practice settings, including critical care units, school health clinics, and primary care. The initiative was developed and executed over six years based on a literature review and rapid-cycle evaluation during the implementation process, including community, field, and university leadership input and participation. An interprofessional team comprised of faculty from each discipline was involved throughout the development and planning process to consider accreditation, cultural, scheduling, and logistical issues unique to each profession. The CABISAM example focused on addiction due to the national need and the interprofessional applicability (Gotham et al., 2015).

CABISAM includes four vital IPE education components: an initial one-day raining, interprofessional field experience (in person or via simulated patients), a poster presentation, and a university conference or capstone practice seminar event. Ten students from each profession are recruited by the faculty team members and are placed in interprofessional teams with one student from each participating profession. The initial one-day training includes the following events: interprofessional didactic and experimental instruction on SBIRT, alcohol, drugs, stages of change, motivational interviewing, interprofessional practice with simulated patients, a panel on interprofessional practice, guest trainers, and interprofessional team building. The interprofessional student teams (IST) then engage in a three-hour field experience practicing the SBIRT model while demonstrating motivational interviewing and interdisciplinary team skills. The field experience occurs in a community-based primary care setting or social service organization to capture respondents with various backgrounds. The third component is for each IST to develop and present a poster incorporating their implementation of SBIRT and field experience. The fourth component is the university conference led by the students attended by community organizations, clinicians, and faculty. Students present their posters, process their experiences, and attend break-out groups at the conference. Upon completing the IPE model, the students receive a certificate from the Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Practice (ITIE). During the COVID-19 pandemic, all components of the CABISAM model were moved online from the initial training day events to the field practice experiences, and the student poster presentations evolved into a capstone practice seminar event.

CABISAM is an effective and evidence-based IPE model that incorporates interprofessional practice focusing on student training in unique settings with diverse patient populations, simulated patients, and field experience. CABISAM is designed to enhance patient engagement and outcomes, predominantly among marginalized patients, through interprofessional practice teams (World Health Organization, 2010). This presentation will examine the creation of an impactful certificate program and training experience and an adaptable and generalizable approach that can be utilized for similar certificate programs (both in-person and via online delivery models) across other undergraduate and graduate IPE programs.