Angela
Kennedy,
SLPD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education, Speech Language Pathology Program
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Angela Kennedy, SLPD, CCC-SLP, is the Director of Clinical Education and an Assistant Professor for the Speech-Language Pathology program in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She has over 15 years of clinical experience in pediatric speech-language pathology in a variety of settings including school-based, pediatric outpatient, home health, and university-based clinic settings. Her current areas of research interest include increasing access to rehabilitative services for pediatric patients in under-resourced areas, examining the training and equipping of speech-language pathologists specifically in the area of speech sound disorders, and the implementation of interprofessional clinically based activities in graduate-level curriculums.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Poster Description: Background: While critical to improving learning and health care outcomes, large-scale clinical interprofessional education (IPE) within authentic clinical learning environments (CLEs) remains challenging. As a bridge to transition from preclinical to clinical IPE at a large academic health center, our team designed and piloted a self-guided, para-clinical IPE experience that will allow hundreds of interprofessional student groups to apply IPEC-derived teamwork concepts learned together to their individual experiences within CLEs. Results from this initial para-clinical…