Collaborative Co-Teaching: Engaging Learners across Health Care Professions

Course Overview

Collaborative Co-Teaching: Engaging Learners across Health Care Professions is a unique course aimed at nurses, physicians, and all allied health care professionals who wish to learn how to use the knowledge and skills of multiple disciplines to collaboratively teach in an interactive and engaging manner. 

Learners will come away from this course with practical methods to start a Collaborative Co-Teaching initiative at their own institution. They will additionally be given a toolkit of interactive teaching techniques to make these educational sessions engaging, active, and high yield. 

Participants will attend explanatory lectures as well as choose from multiple breakout sessions during which they can experience Collaborative Co-Teaching teams in action and observe how they successfully lead their sessions. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panel of experts who created the highly regarded Collaborative Co-Teaching Initiative at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. 

Who Should Attend

• Primary Care Physicians
• Family Medicine Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Pharmacists
• Specialty Physicians
• Emergency Department Physicians
• Cardiologists
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Physicians
• Geriatric Physicians
• Hematologists
• Gastroenterologists
• Endocrinologists
• Oncologists
• Rheumatologists
• Psychologists
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physical Therapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Speech Pathologists
• Social Workers
• Others

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Design a collaborative nurse-doctor co-teaching session.
• Utilize interactive educational methods that lead to effective and vibrant co-teaching.
• Recognize the essential role that rehearsals play in teaching success.