Brian
Sick,
MD, FACP, FNAP
Associate Vice President, Academic Health Sciences
University of Minnesota
Brian Sick is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His research, educational work, and leadership over his 19 years on the faculty is within the field of interprofessional education at the University of Minnesota where he serves as the Associate Vice President for the Academic Health Sciences, Co-Director for the Center for Interprofessional Health, and the Medical Director for the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic, which is an interprofessional student-run free clinic.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Interprofessional Student Poster Description:
Background:
Industrialization, population growth, and increased human mobility are increasingly placing humans into contact with animal ecosystems, leading to changing perspectives of human health in relation to the environment. In a world of increasing connectedness between humans, other animals, and the environment, an understanding of One Health is of increasing importance for health professional students. In particular, Zoobiquity, a University of Minnesota student organization composed of 100+ student members from different health professions…
Across the nation, health and higher education systems are under pressure from internal and external forces and demands - financially, politically, demographics, changing public perceptions, pressures from boards of directors, workforce under- and over- supply, and the demand for new business models. With senior leaders setting the organizational tone and culture at the top, where does that leave health teams in practice and the relevance of interprofessional education today? Are we viewed as cost centers living at the margins or contributors to solve today’s challenges? What are the new…
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC) is a student-run free clinic located in the Phillips Neighborhood of south Minneapolis. Starting in 2022, all of the nearly 200 first-year PNC volunteers are required to complete a three-session community engagement training program, developed and facilitated by PNC’s Community Relations team, one session focused on each of the following topics: (1) interprofessional workplace cultural humility, (2) structural competency, and (3) structural humility. The first of these three sessions encourages participants to notice connections between cultural humility…
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC) is a student-run free clinic located in south Minneapolis, led by University of Minnesota health professional graduate students from 14 different health science disciplines. Beginning in the fall of 2022, PNC’s Community Relations team developed and implemented a three-part interprofessional training series required of the nearly 200 first-year PNC volunteers. With interprofessionalism as the throughline, the training modules equipped incoming volunteers with a shared conceptual framework for ethical community engagement and clinical practices that…
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…