Emelyn
Zaworski,
B.S.
Medical Student
Medical College of Wisconsin
My name is Emelyn Zaworski. I am a rising third year medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin passionate about improving medical and interprofessional education for all healthcare team members. In the future, I hope to complete residency and work in affiliation with an academic institution to continue improving medical and interprofessional education methods.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Social workers are integral healthcare team members and are often overlooked for interprofessional education (IPE) with medical students. At the time of project development, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) did not offer a medicine/social work (SW) IPE. An interdisciplinary team including 1 SW professor, 1 SW student, and 6 MCW students identified this as an area for curricular improvement. Our team conducted a needs assessment by interviewing various stakeholders (n=48). From these interviews, we learned that students would prefer a human-centered approach to IPEs where they could get…