Jackie
Zeeman,
PharmD
Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Office of Organizational Effectiveness, Planning, and Assessment
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Jackie Zeeman, PharmD, is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of the Office of Organizational Effectiveness, Planning, and Assessment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Eshelman School of Pharmacy. In her role, she leads the assessment of student learning in the doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program, including assessment of interprofessional education (IPE). Her work extends beyond the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, serving as the Assessment Lead in the UNC Provost’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice to support development and implementation of a coordinated IPE assessment strategy across the health professions education programs.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Intentional longitudinal curricula instilling interprofessional principles, skills, and behaviors is critical to developing a collaborative practice ready workforce. Further, assessment of student learning and competency in interprofessional learning environments provides necessary data to support and demonstrate the impact of interprofessional learning. Although interprofessional education (IPE) is an essential component to building effective interprofessional practices, gaps remain in strategies to design longitudinal IPE curricula and assess student competency.
At UNC Chapel Hill, the…
Poster Description: Evaluations of interprofessional competencies of students in didactic activities often use self-assessment measurements or focus on the whole team rather than individual abilities. Methods to measure interprofessional competencies using objective observers that evaluate individual students are lacking. This study tested a newly-developed evaluation tool called IPEC-Competency Assessment Tool for Individual Students (I-CATIS) used by trained third party observers to evaluate pharmacy, dental, and dental hygiene students collaborating on a patient case for a didactic…