Carissa
van den Berk Clark,
PhD
Deputy Director of AHEC Program
St. Louis University - AHEC Program Office
Carissa van den Berk Clark, PhD, MSW, is a social worker and an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at St. Louis University. Carissa is deputy director of the Saint Louis University AHEC Program Office, and currently focuses on access to and follow-up with primary care among low-income populations with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders and organizes a St. Louis based Primary Care Research Network, ARCHNet to improve care for these populations.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
o Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is critical to preparing health professions (IP) students to be effective members of the healthcare workforce. Missouri AHEC (MAHEC) offers AHEC-affiliated HP students several interprofessional (IP) programs, utilizing a combination of didactics, experiential training and clinical exposure in rural and underserved settings. One IP program has the HP students participate in IPE training experience in a clinical training site. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of this program on IPE outcomes.o Design or methodology: Pre-…