C. Phifer Nicholson | Nexus Summit 2022

C. Phifer Nicholson

Medical Student

Duke University School of Medicine

C. Phifer Nicholson Jr. is an MD candidate at Duke University School of Medicine. He is also a current Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow at Duke Divinity School. He has a BA in Religion and Middle Eastern Studies from Wofford College, with professional and research interests including health equity, theology and medicine, ethnography, global health, and social medicine. Phifer is an executive board member of the Duke Hotspotting Initiative.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Creating Opportunities for Telehealth Education, Assessment, and Care Through Hotspotting (CO-TEACH): Student-Led Development of a Telehealth Access Screener

Winner of the 2022 Interprofessional Student Achievement Award Background: CO-TEACH is a compact telehealth curriculum delivered to 36 interprofessional students across ten health professions from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2020-21 academic year. Student leaders and faculty collaborators from both universities partnered to create this novel curriculum. Course objectives included conducting effective, multidisciplinary telehealth consultations and recognizing issues of access and equity in telehealth utilization. Many CO-TEACH students…