{"id":509,"date":"2018-03-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/?p=509"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:00:00","slug":"beyond-our-walls-csd-embraces-interprofessional-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/2018\/03\/08\/beyond-our-walls-csd-embraces-interprofessional-education\/","title":{"rendered":"BEYOND OUR WALLS:  CSD EMBRACES INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>I didn\u2019t know that speech pathologists dealt with cognitive disorders<\/em>.\u201d That was a comment heard from several health professional students at the annual Chronic Care Day at Texas Tech at Abilene this week. According to Dr. Terry Baggs, CSD Co-Chair and member of the IPE Chronic Care Day Committee, the department has participated in numerous interprofessional education experiences through the years but Chronic Care Day, Stroke Day, and Trauma Day are cooperative efforts between ACU and Texas Tech and provide students targeted training in working with other professionals while assessing simulated patients. <em>\u201cIn some ways, simulated patients are better than actual patients during training because<\/em> t<em>he use of simulated patients allows the faculty to develop specific diagnostic scenarios for our students to enhance specific skills while working with other disciplines,<\/em>\u201d says Dr. Baggs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-510 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/files\/2018\/03\/Chronic-Care-Day-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/files\/2018\/03\/Chronic-Care-Day-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/files\/2018\/03\/Chronic-Care-Day-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/files\/2018\/03\/Chronic-Care-Day-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/files\/2018\/03\/Chronic-Care-Day-490x327.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Communication Sciences and Disorders at ACU has utilized simulated patients for several years. Almost a decade ago, ACU was one of the first universities to utilize computer based simulated patients in an avatar format called SimuCase.\u00a0 The department has expanded to other opportunities, an example being a patient simulated competency exam in swallowing disorders. And, the faculty continue to consider new methods of teaching skills while appreciating the roles of other disciplines.\u00a0 Dr. Baggs says \u201c<em>the healthcare environment for a patient is improved when disciplines respect and understand each other<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know that speech pathologists dealt with cognitive disorders.\u201d That was a comment heard from several health professional students at the annual Chronic Care Day at Texas Tech at Abilene this week. According to Dr. Terry Baggs, CSD Co-Chair and member of the IPE Chronic Care Day Committee, the department has participated in numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/communication-disorders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}