Sara
North,
PT, DPT, PhD, MEd, PNAP
Co-Director, Center for Interprofessional Health; Director of Ed. Innovation & Eval., Division of PT
University of Minnesota
Sara North PT, DPT, PhD, M.Ed., PNAP serves as Co-Director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Interprofessional Health and the Director of Educational Innovation and Evaluation and Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy in the Medical School. She completed her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree at Northwestern University, Masters of Education Community Health Educator degree at Carroll University, and PhD degree in Evaluation Studies at the University of Minnesota. Dr. North’s passion for the development and assessment of innovative pedagogy focuses on collaborative initiatives to move interprofessional education forward through academic-clinical partnerships and data-informed curricular design and assessment.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This seminar is designed to explore one large academic institution’s recent centralization of interprofessional efforts through the creation of a university-wide Center for Interprofessional Health. Participants will consider a variety of factors including institutional leadership buy-in, Center leadership models, faculty and staff roles in the Center, creation of an Executive Committee, strategic planning, curricular development, operational decision-making structures, branding, web and social media presence, and more. The journey and lessons learned in the implementation of the Center for…
Development and Implementation of a Criterion-based Interprofessional Education Experience Inventory
This lightning talk presents one large academic institution’s efforts to collect, categorize, and evaluate interprofessional education (IPE) experiences occurring across the University. Often, IPE activities within programs or schools may not be known to those implementing the centrally offered IPE program. After four prior unsuccessful attempts to collate such experiences, the author University’s Center for Interprofessional Health created a new approach to discover existing IPE activities, evaluate them against standard criteria, make them available to other schools, and track participation…
This lightning talk describes an innovative continuing education curriculum for health professionals to develop and apply the IPEC competencies in their roles as providers and preceptors within interprofessional clinical learning environments. Preceptors create powerful influences on their learners via modeling and the hidden curriculum (Bartlett et al, 2020). Considering the scope of this influence, there is minimal existing content created for preceptors to enhance their skills for interprofessional precepting (Barnes et al, 2017). This session will summarize the hybrid curriculum content…