Team-based, Effective, Collaborative, Healthcare (TECH) Ready Interprofessional Education Initiative, the Quality Enhancement Plan at TTUHSC El Paso
- Quality Enhancement Plan:
- As part of the reaffirmation of accreditation process by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), TTUHSC El Paso is required to develop a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) to improve a specific aspect of student learning or student success across the institution. TTUSHC El Paso faculty, staff, and students developed a five-year plan to focus on interprofessional education (IPE). By selecting IPE for its first QEP, TTUHSC El Paso is building upon its institutional mission, enhancing its academic programming, and demonstrating leadership in healthcare
- TECH Ready IPE Initiative:
- Mission: The mission of TTUHSC El Paso’s QEP IPE Initiative, TECH Ready, is to prepare TTUHSC El Paso graduates for success in dynamic healthcare environments through the acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors necessary for successful interprofessional teamwork.
- Vision and Purpose:
- The overarching vision of TECH Ready is to establish an institutional culture committed to the values of IPE. These values promote safe, effective and compassionate patient-centered health care through teamwork and include mutual understanding and respect, trust, integrity, high ethical standards and the deliberate consideration of the knowledge, skills and perspectives of all team members.
- The purpose of the TECH Ready initiative is to promote core competencies for collaborative practice, in order to prepare all TTUHSC El Paso graduates for enhanced team-based care of patients and improved population health outcomes and to become future leaders in dynamic health care environments.