IPE Collaboration

Jody Delp, Clinical Assistant Professor of Respiratory Therapy, said her junior students are completing an online case study with Food and Nutrition students to understand the importance of nutrition in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Delp and Dr. Julie McCullough, Associate Professor of Nutrition and chair of Food and Nutrition, partnered to give online lectures, create a case study and assign groups so students in their respective programs could collaborate on the study.

“The students have found innovative ways to communicate, with many learning how to use all the features of Zoom and document sharing,” said McCullough.

Sarah Hicks, a student in McCullough's Medical Nutrition Therapy II class, said the use of Zoom meetings and ability to share documents in Microsoft Office online were important for her and her project partner to successfully complete the case study. "With the sharing of the document, we were able to work on it at the same time and read through the work that the other person was doing," she said. "Also, if we noticed a question the other person had answered but maybe had missed the mark on a little or hadn't answered in enough detail, we could add to it and expound upon it a little further.

Hicks said the Zoom meetings were very helpful "just for us to talk through everything together, and voice any questions or concerns." She said they also used the screen share feature when meeting over Zoom so that they could look through the document together.