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Portland, Maine

CAIEP Announces Fall 2024 Interprofessional Exchange Events

CAIEP

The Center to Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice (CAIEP) at the University of New England has announced the topics for the fall semester Knowledge Exchange events. 

The Knowledge Exchange events address contemporary issues with emphasis on strategies for interprofessional health care practice teamwork, when workers from multiple professions work together to improve health outcomes. Programming includes lectures and discussion groups featuring local and national experts from a variety of fields and those with real world experience. All events are free and open to the public.

CAIEP will offer a mix of online and face-to-face programming for the fall 2024 semester. Topics raise awareness of critical issues affecting health and include collaborative strategies for:

  • Providing harm-reduction tools for health care workers
  • Partnering with clients with disabilities
  • Understanding sexual-assault forensics and better patient outcomes
  • Navigating the health and business of aquaculture
  • Seeing racism through an interprofessional health care lens

CAIEP has been a key hub for interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice at UNE for almost 15 years and fosters teamwork among health care professionals and students through various initiatives, including the Knowledge Exchange events, immersive simulations, cross-professional service-learning opportunities, and collaborative research projects. 

The center engages with most health profession fields, as well as many arts and sciences programs, to enhance skills for clinical and community practice and improve health care for all. Knowledge Exchange events are typically offered to students for credit toward earning an Interprofessional Honors Distinction. Select Knowledge Exchanges offer Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Education Units for professionals.

For more information about the events and to signup, visit www.une.edu/caiep/events. For additional questions, contact Michelle Cote at mcote8@une.edu.

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About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.