Publications by authors named "K Varaklis"
Article Synopsis
- The iPACE model was launched in 2016 at Maine Medical Center to enhance interprofessional collaborative care training for residents, focusing on patient safety and quality of care through team-based approaches.
- It incorporates systems engineering principles to allow ongoing customization and improvement, beginning as a pilot on a single inpatient unit and expanding into standard practice for bedside rounds.
- The model has received positive feedback, benefiting patients and care teams, while also achieving reduced care costs and length of patient stays, aiming to strategically redesign clinical learning environments for improved resident education and collaborative patient-centered care.
Purpose: Obtaining high quality feedback in residency education is challenging, in part due to limited opportunities for faculty observation of authentic clinical work. This study reviewed the impact of interprofessional bedside rounds ('iPACE™') on the length and quality of faculty narrative evaluations of residents as compared to usual inpatient teaching rounds.
Methods: Narrative comments from faculty evaluations of Internal Medicine (IM) residents both on usual teaching service as well as the iPACE™ service (spanning 2017-2020) were reviewed and coded using a deductive content analysis approach.
Background: In 2016, Maine Medical Center received an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Pursuing Excellence in Innovation grant to redesign the clinical learning environment to promote interprofessional care and education. The Interprofessional Partnership to Advance Care and Education (iPACE) model was developed and piloted on an adult inpatient medicine unit as an attempt achieve these aims.
Objective: We describe the iPACE model and associated outcomes.