Jacqueline Smith, Ed.D, MHA, MSL
Dir, Assessments & Evaluations
Duke IPEC Center
Dr. Jacqueline Brown Smith is the Assistant Director of Assessment and Evaluation for Duke Interpressional Education Care Center and Duke Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from Gardner-Webb University with a Doctorate of Education, Pfeiffer University with a double Masters in Health Administration and Organizational Leadership, and an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a background in health care quality improvement, programmatic evaluation and assessment as well as research.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Description: This session will describe a year-long professional development program for experienced educators from multiple health professions and disciplines. This program provides both didactics on adult learning principles and practical instruction on curriculum development through a team-based project. Instructional methods for this virtual program included interactive presentations, small group discussion, mentoring, and project-driven activities. Instructional content includes a stepwise approach to curriculum design and implementation as well as professional development around…
The Covid pandemic has had a profound effect in many ways. For health professions educators, the stress of caring for their patients, each other, and often finally themselves and their families, has left little time to consider professional development. Resources for such development have also been limited more than in the past. Duke AHEAD, an academy of interprofessional educators at Duke University Health System has the mission to support and promote health profession educators with opportunities for education innovation and faculty development. With over 950 members, this can be a…
Duke AHEAD (Academy for Health Professions Education & Academic Development) is an interprofessional education academy with over 950 members from the health professions programs at Duke University designed to offer faculty development, highlight education research and innovation and promotion and recognition of our health professions educators. Entering the second year of the pandemic, the academy continued to explore ways to achieve our mission remotely. An education expo was held to promote the ongoing work of our community of educaors. A call was forwarded to members to share…
Using the framework known as SBAR, situation, background, assessment and recommendation, Duke AHEAD(Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development), an interprofessional academy established in 2014 with over 950 members developed a pilot mentorship process that will be offered to health professions educators. This method of program development is unique as the SBAR framework is often used in clinical decision making and as a quality and safety guide for process improvement and not as often for mentorship programs. In this particular situation(S), a need for a formal…
Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing developed an interprofessional student clinical experience which brings together students and faculty from their professional programs including doctor of allopathy (MD), advanced bachelors of science in nursing (ABSN), nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA), physical therapy (PT) to provide collaborative care to patients in the Duke emergency department (ED). The IPE experience focuses on team-based, hands-on patient care as well as learning from and with each of the professions. As this is a patient care experience, there is…
Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing developed an interprofessional student clinical experience which brings together students and faculty from their professional programs including doctor of allopathy (MD), advanced bachelors of science in nursing (ABSN), nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA), physical therapy (PT) to provide collaborative care to patients in the Duke emergency department (ED). The IPE experience focuses on team-based, hands-on patient care as well as learning from and with each of the professions. We sought to understand the impact this 4-hour…
Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing developed an interprofessional student clinical experience which brings together students and faculty from their professional programs including doctor of allopathy (MD), advanced bachelors of science in nursing (ABSN), nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA), physical therapy (PT) to provide collaborative care to patients seeking care in the Duke emergency department (ED). The IPE experience focuses on team-based, hands-on patient care as well as learning from and with each of the professions. Many of the involved learners are early…