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I-TEAM: Interprofessional Training in Empathy, Affect and Mindfulness

I-TEAM By Design™ educates individuals and teams in core concepts of patient-centered, team-based healthcare delivery, and provides training opportunities to enhance interpersonal and interprofessional communication and connectivity. Get ready to strengthen your empathy and humility muscles, cultivate heightened self- and other-awareness, and build emotional attunement.
With a solid 80's montage vibe and snippets of the videos in the program - the I-TEAM By Design™ teaser below will introduce you to some of the characters and the vibe of this fully animated and accredited short course.
![]() | Who it's forThe 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 OverviewThis highly engaging course keeps learners actively involved (and entertained) through animated modules that include pause activities for reflection and gamified knowledge checks to reinforce key concepts. The course is comprised of four core modules approximately 45 minutes in length. Shorter introductory and concluding modules set the stage and provide additional resources. In each core module, there are associated "workouts" to try out and practice strategies around concepts such as emotional states, humility, and mindfulness. Select topics include:
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![]() | Digital Badge and CertificateLearners 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 AccreditationUpon course completion, learners are eligible for 8 continuing education credits in 6 different health and social care professions.
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. |
Interprofessional Training in Empathy, Affect and Mindfulness (I-TEAM By Design™) was developed by CAIPER, under the registered trademark CAIPER Interprofessional By Design®, and with support from the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation Learning Enterprise and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, and is offered through Arizona State University Continuing and Professional Education.
Financial Disclosure: Planning Committee Member, Teri Pipe, PhD, RN, and The Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience at Arizona State University served as an unpaid resource and content expert.
Team Package pricing is available for courses, educational institutions, professional organizations, non-profits and businesses. Please email caiper@asu.edu for details.
Considering I-TEAM By DesignTM for your course or professional group? Contact Yvonne Price for a free trial version.
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