Grantee Spotlight: A mixed-methods program evaluation of the Alda Healthcare Experience- a program to improve healthcare team communication

The team at Stony Brook University, led by project director Dr. Susmita Pati, have published their first article from their project!

See part of the abstract below.

"Communication among interprofessional healthcare worker teams is critical to ensure a thriving and resilient workforce. We will evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the Alda Healthcare Experience (AHE), a novel medical improvisation (improv) workshop designed to improve interprofessional communication skills among healthcare professionals. The AHE workshop includes a two-hour experiential training workshop led by an improv specialist and a clinical co-facilitator. In July 2022 we began implementing the AHE workshop by training 18 clinical co-facilitators who will co-facilitate the workshops for 550 healthcare workers from five hospital departments at Stony Brook University Hospital over the course of a year and a half. Using mixed-methods, we will conduct an Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Design project that includes an outcome evaluation (effectiveness) and a process evaluation (implementation)."

The full article can be accessed here: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-022-03972-w