Gretchel
Gealogo Brown,
PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
UT Health San Antonio
Gretchel Gealogo Brown is an assistant professor at the School of Nursing. She led the LINC Faculty and Staff Development Initiative, which provides IPE-related continuing education and mentorship for UT Health San Antonio faculty and staff. Her research focuses on the analysis of unstructured data in EHRs for improved patient-centered clinical decision-making and care outcomes. Her work with LINC has given her an opportunity to expand her program of science to include establishing a holistic framework for IPE faculty and staff programming development, evaluation, and quality improvement.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Members of Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), UT Health San Antonio’s institutional initiative to advance interprofessional education (IPE), developed the university-wide LINC Common IPE Experience for all incoming learners. Launched in 2020, this foundational IPE activity involves three case-based online modules focused on teamwork and communication competencies completed synchronously in interprofessional groups of 3-4 students. In 2021, as COVID-19 social distancing restrictions loosened, student groups were encouraged to complete the modules online…
Background: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has a dedicated university-wide initiative to advance interprofessional education (IPE) called Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC). Started in 2019, the annual LINC Seed Grant Program offers a competitive funding opportunity for interprofessional teams of faculty and staff intended to support pilot testing of novel IPE activities that meet an identified educational need and demonstrate potential for long-term scalability, sustainability, scholarship, and integration into…
Background: Generating scholarly output is a perpetual challenge for health sciences faculty who often juggle heavy teaching and practice workloads. At UT Health San Antonio, where clinical faculty are the primary drivers of interprofessional education (IPE) activity across campus, this challenge resonates. In response, members of Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), an institution-wide initiative to advance IPE, developed and implemented a pilot writers’ workshop targeting faculty currently engaged in IPE projects and disseminating their results in the IPE literature…