Jennifer
Swails,
MD, FACP
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center, McGovern Medical School
Jennifer Swails, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, the Co-Director of Interprofessional Education, and Program Director of the internal medicine residency program at McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston. Dr. Swails received her bachelor’s degree in biology from Davidson College and her M.D. from Weill Cornell. She then completed residency training in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women's Hospital and joined the faculty at UT Health Houston in 2012. Dr. Swails has received numerous awards for teaching and patient care, including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the Dupont Master Clinical Teaching Award, and the John P. McGovern Outstanding Teaching Award.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Our Lightning Talk will address how health disparities and bias, especially in underserved and marginalized populations, can be addressed in an Interprofessional Simulation through telehealth. The coronavirus pandemic shifted our interprofessional (IP) simulations from in-person to virtual environments. We analyzed the qualitative differences and impacts of two complex simulations involving students and Standardized Patients (SP) before and during the pandemic. The two simulations included an angry inpatient with a medical error and a low-income, geriatric woman seeking pain medication in a…