Enhancing the academic-clinical partnership

ACAPT is identifying opportunities for deeper engagement with clinical partners and their affiliated academic programs.

• NCCE leadership is working with the New England Consortium of Clinical Educators to host an inaugural roadshow (November 2022) to generate strategies for enhancing communication and networking among clinical education stakeholders.
  

• A partnership with Exxat has been established to collect critical baseline data in clinical education that will promote better outcomes within the academic-clinical partnership.
  
• A new clinical education glossary is now available!

Strategizing for best placement & observation hours practices

Academic programs require an extensive network of clinical education sites and clinical instructors to provide adequate clinical education experiences for their students.  In recent years, the availability and challenges with clinical education placements have grown and ACAPT is responding:

• A task force on Clinical Education Placement Capacity and Process Innovation began in March 2022 and is gathering data, conducting a survey of site coordinators of clinical education (SCCEs) and exploring options for transforming the current placement process to maximize availability and efficiency.
  
  
• An ACAPT group is investigating pre-admission observation hours practices and helping to determine if alternative experiences are a better way for incoming students to prepare.  ACAPT members approved this policy on Observation Hours in Admissions in 2020.  Review more in the Observation hours section on the clin ed resource page.
  

Encouraging interprofessional education (IPE) and integrated clin ed (ICE)

Through ACAPT’s National Consortium of Clinical Education (NCCE), we developed the following webinars:

• Fostering student professional behaviors & skills with early part-time ICE - integrated clinical experience.  See more guidelines for ICE on the ACAPT clinical education page.
  

• Addressing interprofessional education (IPE) practice in clinical education. More IPE resources are also available.
  

• See a full list of recorded events.