Kristin
Dickerson
Program Director
Duke AHEAD - Duke University School of Medicine
Kristin serves as a liaison between Academy members and Duke AHEAD leadership, and is responsible for the planning, development, and coordination of faculty development activities. She serves as a resource to members and facilitates Duke AHEAD communications and oversees financial management of the program.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
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…