Kathleen
MacMillan,
BSc. Pharm, MD Candidate 2023
Medical Student
Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Dalhousie University
Kathleen MacMillan is a licensed pharmacist who obtained her degree from Dalhousie University. She is currently a Medical Student at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick (Dalhousie University) and serves as Co-President of the Dalhousie Medicine Class of 2023. As a member of Interprofessional Research.Global, Kathleen has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and led the collaborative writing of a textbook chapter on interprofessional student leadership. She also co-founded the Dalhousie University interprofessional mini-course, Battling the Burnout Epidemic, which teaches students about wellness strategies.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
In this Lightning Talk, the evolution and vision of InterprofessionalResearch.Global’s (IPR.Global) Knowledge Network will be presented. IPR.Global is an international network of scholars, leaders, service providers, decision-makers, administrators, service-users, and students that promote and advocate for evidence-informed, theory-driven, methodologically rigorous interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) research, practices, and policies. Originally formed as an IPR.Global knowledge exchange working group in early 2019, the purpose was to ensure that the most relevant…
System resilience is characterized by institutional capacity to recover from adversity, restabilize, and return to a functional normal. There’s much confusion however about what system resilience looks like, how it should be implemented, and if, in fact, we should reconceptualize what the post-pandemic workforce needs to support overall wellbeing, improve retention, and maintain optimal patient care.
A retrospective analysis of workforce resilience finds that worker burnout was a significant problem prior to the pandemic, affecting health providers across professions, status, levels, and…