Amber
King,
PharmD, BCPS, FNAP
Associate Provost for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Thomas Jefferson University
Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Amber King, PharmD, BCPS, FNAP is Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education; Associate Provost for Interprofessional Practice and Education; and Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Thomas Jefferson University. She is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and completed pharmacy residencies in Pharmacy Practice and Critical Care at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. King has received the James B. Erdmann Award for Excellence in Interprofessional Education and the Fred and Sadye Abrams Award for Excellence in Clinical or Laboratory Instruction.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Seminar Description: Proponents of interprofessional education and practice have great opportunity to think beyond the traditional health care team by considering the wide variety of health and social care professionals who serve our communities in their unique and distinct ways. For example, graduates of health-related programs from community colleges provide many of these essential services; yet, they are frequently missing from interprofessional discussions.
When these professions are not included in important conversations about health and social care services, then how inclusive is…
The Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative's (HPAC) guidance document on developing quality interprofessional education (IPE) for the health professions underscores the importance of utilizing shared terminology, providing clear rationale, and intentionally and longitudinally integrating interprofessional learning activities into professional curricula. To provide a consistent method for all health professions students to receive common foundational knowledge of IPE and collaborative practice (CP), an interprofessional team at the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and…
Lightning Talk Description: This lightning talk will describe the launching of formal, centralized interprofessional education (IPE) at Clarkson University through the adaptation and implementation of Team Care Planning (TCP). TCP is a simulated clinical discharge planning meeting where students experience working in an interprofessional team to plan the discharge of a patient from the hospital. Before the simulation, students review the patient’s medical record and watch a video about the hospital stay. The simulation involves students from different health professions meeting with the…
Seminar Description: The need for intentionally structured IPE experiences with clear goals and metrics across the learning continuum has been nationally and repeatedly endorsed. The 2019 Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC) report stresses the importance of developing and organizing quality IPE programs, including systematic institutional IPE approaches, collaboration across academic programs to scaffold learning experiences appropriate to learners’ levels, and longitudinal integration into existing professional curricula. However, challenges in designing systematic IPE…
Over the last three years, faculty and staff members of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Racial and Social Justice Taskforce (RSJT) have worked together to actualize the interconnectedness of interprofessional collaborative practice and the advancement of anti-racism in health education and practice. 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 interprofessional education (IPE) programs. The tool…