Amber
King,
PharmD, BCPS, FNAP
Associate Provost for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Co-Director, Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Associate Professor, Jefferson College of Pharmacy
Thomas Jefferson University
Amber King, PharmD, BCPS, FNAP is Associate Provost for Interprofessional Practice and Education,Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at Thomas Jefferson University, and Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Jefferson College of Pharmacy at Thomas Jefferson University. Amber is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at the University of the Sciences, and completed pharmacy residencies in Pharmacy Practice and Critical Care at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Her recent scholarly activity has focused on teamwork, patient safety and interprofessional education. She is experienced in uni- and interprofessional curricular development and delivery.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Faculty development is a priority for our teamwork simulation programs. Student final evaluations of our programs previously included assessment of student knowledge and attitudinal change but not feedback about facilitator quality. We rapidly expanded our program from 148 students in March 2021 to 738 students in March 2022 with a concomitant increase in facilitators, many of whom were new. Therefore, we wanted to assess quality and effectiveness of faculty development, faculty experience as facilitators, and student experience with faculty. Methodology: To gauge the success of…
Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Interprofessional Substance Use Disorder Symposium
Description: This seminar will highlight the pedagogical development, implementation, and evaluation of an interprofessional substance use disorder (SUD) symposium for nurse practitioner, pharmacy, and physician assistant studies students. The intent of the SUD symposium was to prioritize self-discovery of stigma and its impact on how we care for persons with SUDs. The pedagogical approach for the SUD symposium was to emphasize collaborative practice with the aim of increasing appreciation of the interprofessional aspects of SUD patient care. The half-day symposium included a panel of…
The events of spring and summer 2020 called attention to the racism and social injustices that still exist in our country, along with their impact on patient and population health and on interprofessional healthcare teams and team members. In the wake of these events, at one University Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, team members were compelled to create a Racial and Social Justice Task Force (RSJT) to address issues of racism and social injustice within ourselves, our team, our programs, and Center. Task force members appreciated the interconnectedness of…
Over the last two years, staff and faculty members of a university Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Racial and Social Justice Task Force (RSJT) have worked together to extend our systems thinking relative to interprofessional collaboration and our understanding of effective teamwork to examine and dismantle systemic injustice in our individual and team practices. To aid in this work, the team created a curriculum self-study tool, intended to guide critical thinking and facilitate idea generation around issues of racial and social justice within and across the Center’s…