Title

The Interprofessional Diabetes and Education Awareness (IDEA) community program

Authors

Sandee M. Dunbar, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Harvey Feldman, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Terry Morrow Nelson, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Patricia Vargas, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Linda Fritzinger-Hearn, Nova Southeastern University
Andrea Levin, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Leon Nehmad, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Elizabeth Swann, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

ISBN or ISSN

2405-4526

Publication Title

Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice

Volume

7

Publication Date / Copyright Date

6-2017

First Page

75

Last Page

77

Publisher

Elsevier

DOI Number

10.1016/j.xjep.2017.03.006

Abstract

This report describes the Interprofessional Diabetes and Education Awareness (IDEA) program that was developed in partnership with the Broward County American Diabetes Association and Nova Southeastern University Health Profession's Division. The intent of the program is to increase engagement and collaboration of students and faculty from multiple professions in providing free community education related to diabetes prevention and management. The education is provided to individuals who are interested in knowing about diabetes, or who actually have a diagnosis. The presentations are done through lecture, active learning, table top displays and discussions, in a variety of community venues throughout an academic year, with the goal of increasing community awareness and appropriate management of diabetes. The variety of presentation methods are available to address different health literacy and age levels.

Interprofessional health care groups of faculty and students meet the goals of increasing team functioning awareness and collaboration, as well as increased knowledge of diabetes in the community, as indicated by student focus group results at the end of the academic year. Participant surveys also overwhelmingly reveal satisfaction with the community presentations. Information regarding program replication is available through our Train the Trainer Coordinator – Alison Herman Alison.herman@nova.edu.

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Keywords

collaboration, diabetes, education, faculty, interprofessional education, students

NSUWorks Citation

Dunbar, Sandee M.; Feldman, Harvey; Nelson, Terry Morrow; Vargas, Patricia; Fritzinger-Hearn, Linda; Levin, Andrea; Nehmad, Leon; and Swann, Elizabeth, "The Interprofessional Diabetes and Education Awareness (IDEA) community program" (2017). Faculty Articles. 367.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_corx_facarticles/367