Jasmine Yumori, OD, FAAO
Course Director, Interprofessional Education
Western University of Health Sciences
Dr. Yumori is an Associate Professor at the Western University of Health Sciences. She has a joint appointment with the College of Optometry and the University’s Department of Interprofessional Education. Within the Department of Interprofessional Education, Dr. Yumori leads 2 required for-credit courses that involve over 600 graduate health professional students across 8 programs.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Goals of the Study/Hypothesis: The Covid-19 pandemic negatively impacted education at all grade levels. Specifically, we highlight two health sciences graduate programs and aimed to deduce if coping mechanisms varied based on if their curriculum was taught primarily in-person or via a virtual platform. We hypothesize that the program that spent more time in a virtual learning environment will have maladaptive coping mechanisms compared to the other program. Materials & Methods: University Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval was obtained prior to participant recruitment. Current…
A variety of factors have been identified in the literature as limiting or facilitating IPE program success (Abu-Rish et al., 2012). Factors such as learner-level compatibility and perceived relevance to students’ future practice may influence student reactions to IPE curricula (Abu-Rish et al., 2012; McGregor et al., 2018), thereby negatively influencing student-centered outcomes of program success. The present research examined factors that may influence students’ perceptions of interprofessional education and collaborative practice within a comprehensive, two-year IPE curriculum involving…