Alexa
Valentino,
PharmD, MBA, BCACP, TTS
Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Director of BuckIPE Curriculum
The Ohio State University
Alexa Valentino, PharmD, MBA, BCACP, TTS is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and the Director of the BuckIPE Curriculum at The Ohio State University. She is a Clinical Pharmacist at a community health center, where she cares for underserved patients as a part of an interprofessional team. She has coordinated and facilitated numerous IPE activities, including three IPE courses and the inaugural offering of the BuckIPE curriculum for all health science students at Ohio State. She is a published scholar in IPE and has been recognized for her research in this area.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Building from an existing module, an interprofessional team of faculty, staff and students created a longitudinal, five-part module entitled, “Anti-Racism in Action” involving over 1000 second year learners and 76 facilitators from six Ohio State health sciences colleges. Learning objectives spanned five IPE competencies (Evidence Based Practice, Collaborative Leadership, Interprofessional Communication, Roles and Responsibilities, and Teams and Teamwork). Over seven weeks, students: (1) completed individual readings and videos and a quiz on definitions of racism and its impact in health care…
The BuckIPE curriculum is an integrated, longitudinal interprofessional (IP) curriculum for health professions programs at The Ohio State University, including the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry, Pharmacy, Public Health, Social Work, and Veterinary Medicine. The curriculum is purposefully designed to be progressive; students advance across three levels: foundation, immersion, and mastery. In the foundation level, students learn rationale, supporting evidence, and foundational knowledge and skills for collaborative practice (IPCP). In the three…
Peer review has been identified as a critical element of the publication process. (JF Polak, 1995). However, the continued growth of scientific submissions puts an increasing burden on the demand for peer review (M. Kovanis etal., 2016). Reviewer fatigue has become evident in trying to meet the review demands(C. Fox et al., 2017). It is therefore critical that new manuscript reviewers are trained to add diversity to the mix of reviewers and increase the number of skilled reviewers to reduce the burden and control burnout of current reviewers.
Reviewer development and mentorship comes in many…