Who it's for

The course is beneficial for both health professionals and health professions students in all clinical, behavioral and social care fields. Health professionals seeking continuing education credits may earn 8 credit hours for course completion (see below for specialties). 

What will learners gain?

I-TEAM By Design™ is designed to cultivate and optimize interprofessional skills related to empathy, connectivity, emotional intelligence, humility, and self/other awareness. The essentiality and value of these skills is consistently highlighted through team-based, collaborative healthcare scenarios threaded throughout the course. Learners have the opportunity to develop these skills and strategies through "workouts" in the I-TEAM gym.

Course Overview

Select topics include:

• Science of the empathy experience as it relates to interprofessional care delivery and building "empathy muscles"
• Role and impact of emotions, emotionality, emotional labor, and vulnerability in interprofessional team-based healthcare
• Value of recognizing and engaging with others’ emotional states using high-level communication skills
• Science of the humility experience and building "humility muscles"
• Mindfulness as it relates to interprofessional health care and its value to promote high levels of self-, other-awareness, and overall well-being

Key Features

• 8 Continuing Education Credits
• Digital Badge issued by the ASU Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research (CAIPER)
• Personalized ASU CAIPER Certificate of Completion
• Can be integrated in pre-existing courses, stackable credentials or other offerings within clinical, professional and academic settings
• Includes both individual and group exercises
• Self-paced and asynchronous
• Mobile-friendly

Digital Badge and Certificate

Learners who successfully complete the course will earn a digital credential in I-TEAM By Design™: Interprofessional Training in Empathy, Affect and Mindfulness.

Personalized Certificates of Completion are also awarded for successful completion of the course, formalizing a learner’s efforts and providing documentation that can be submitted to instructors or employers.

Continuing Education Accreditation

Upon course completion, learners are eligible for 8 continuing education credits in 6 different health and social care professions.

1. AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ – CME: 8 credit hours for course completion.
2. Nursing Continuing Professional Development – NCPD: 8 credit hours for course completion.
3. Continuing Pharmacy Credit – CPE: 8 credit hours for course completion.
   Universal Activity Numbers (UAN) for activity 0122-21 only:
   Pharmacist:  JA4008217-0000-21-007-H04-P                             
4. Psychology – APA: 8 credit hours for course completion.
5. Social Work – ACE: 8 credit hours for course completion.
6. Interprofessional Continuing Education – IPCE: 8 credit hours for course completion.

In support of improving patient care, Arizona State University is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Pharmacist UAN: JA4008217-0000-21-007-H04-P.

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the  Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Arizona State University is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Board’s (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program.  Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.  Arizona State University maintains responsibility for this course.  Social Workers completing this course receive 8 credit hours of continuing education credits per individual session.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 8 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.