Woltenberg Leslie, Taylor Stacy
University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences, 900 S. Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40536-0200, United States.
University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, 789 S. Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40536-0596, United States.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2018 May;10(5):662-668. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2018.01.003. Epub 2018 Feb 15.
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Standards 2016 established a new standard on interprofessional education (IPE) to place specific emphasis on developing interprofessional competence among pharmacy graduates.
Interprofessional Collaboration And Team Skills (iCATS) serves as the core interprofessional curriculum for nearly 700 first-year students in seven participating health professional programs. The curriculum was developed around the four Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Competencies to develop foundational interprofessional knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Pharmacy students build preliminary competence in interprofessional roles and responsibilities, team dynamics, values and ethics, communication, and conflict resolution (ACPE Standard 11.1) and have an opportunity to learn about, from, and with other interprofessional students (ACPE Standard 11.2).
Refinement of the iCATS curriculum has been an iterative process over the past four years. For iCATS 2016-2017, all Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Scale (ICCAS) evaluation items indicated significant changes in pre- and posttest indicating targeted IPEC Competencies were addressed through the iCATS curriculum.
The 2016-2017 revision of iCATS resulted in the most effective iteration of this core interprofessional curriculum to date. Clearer course objectives, a compressed schedule, employment of a variety of teaching/learning methods, and greater schedule cooperation among the colleges have contributed to the success and delivery of an IPE curriculum. Additionally, iCATS provides a unique opportunity for pharmacy students to interact with health professions students from six other programs while making significant progress toward competence in ACPE Standards 11.1 and 11.2 on interprofessional education (IPE).
药学教育认证委员会（ACPE）2016年标准制定了一项关于跨专业教育（IPE）的新标准，特别强调培养药学专业毕业生的跨专业能力。
跨专业协作与团队技能（iCATS）是七个参与健康专业项目中近700名一年级学生的核心跨专业课程。该课程围绕四个跨专业教育协作（IPEC）能力构建，以培养基础跨专业知识、技能和态度。药学专业学生在跨专业角色与职责、团队动态、价值观与伦理、沟通以及冲突解决方面建立初步能力（ACPE标准11.1），并有机会向其他跨专业学生学习、与他们一起学习（ACPE标准11.2）。
在过去四年中，iCATS课程的完善是一个反复的过程。对于2016 - 2017学年的iCATS课程，所有跨专业协作能力达成量表（ICCAS）评估项目均表明，前后测有显著变化，表明通过iCATS课程实现了目标IPEC能力。
2016 - 2017学年对iCATS的修订产生了迄今为止该核心跨专业课程最有效的迭代。更清晰的课程目标、紧凑的时间表、多种教学/学习方法的运用以及各学院之间更大程度的时间表协调，促成了IPE课程的成功实施。此外，iCATS为药学专业学生提供了一个独特的机会，使其能够与来自其他六个项目的健康专业学生互动，同时在ACPE关于跨专业教育（IPE）的标准11.1和11.2方面朝着能力提升取得显著进展。
