Shoshana
Sicks,
EdD
Director of Curriculum & Administration
Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at Thomas Jefferson University
Shoshana Sicks is Director of Curriculum and Administration for the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE) at Thomas Jefferson University. Her experience in higher education administration includes interprofessional education, curricular affairs, program and curriculum development and management, admissions and student services. Her recent work focuses on higher education mergers and teamwork and communication curricular innovations and evaluation. Shoshana holds an AB in Spanish from Bowdoin College, an EdM in higher education administration from Harvard University and a EdD in higher education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model, developed at the University of New Mexico, aims to build healthcare workforce capacity and improve access to specialty care using videoconferencing technology to provide frontline clinicians with the knowledge and support they need to manage underserved patients in their own communities. The ECHO model has been widely utilized across the globe focusing on complex conditions that require a team-based approach.This lightening talk describes how the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE) partnered with a…
The events of spring and summer 2020 called attention to the racism and social injustices that still exist in our country, along with their impact on patient and population health and on interprofessional healthcare teams and team members. In the wake of these events, at one University Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, team members were compelled to create a Racial and Social Justice Task Force (RSJT) to address issues of racism and social injustice within ourselves, our team, our programs, and Center. Task force members appreciated the interconnectedness of…
Over the last two years, staff and faculty members of a university Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Racial and Social Justice Task Force (RSJT) have worked together to extend our systems thinking relative to interprofessional collaboration and our understanding of effective teamwork to examine and dismantle systemic injustice in our individual and team practices. To aid in this work, the team created a curriculum self-study tool, intended to guide critical thinking and facilitate idea generation around issues of racial and social justice within and across the Center’s…