Kimberly
Sanders,
PHARMD, BCPS
Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kimberly Sanders, PharmD, is an assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She also has a shared appointment as an assistant professor in the UNC Adams School of Dentistry. She is primarily involved in maintaining a partnership between the schools of pharmacy and dentistry through initiatives to develop, implement, and evaluate clinical pharmacy services in dental practice clinics as well as teaching on medication management related matters to oral health. She most recently has been more involved in understanding how clinical sites can be developed to help learners be more interprofessional collaborative-ready health professionals.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description: According to the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), the ideal interprofessional clinical learning environment (CLE) is a ‘shared space between various professions collaborating with patients and caregivers, working together to provide the best care possible’ and occurs in any areas where professional students are training1. While great strides have been made in interprofessional education, more work is needed to maximize the CLE to be an ideal interprofessional practice space. Designing an assessment tool to provide…
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…
Interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) can play an important role in creating a robust environment for appreciating health equity (HE), recognizing social determinants of health (SDOH), and teaching health- and social-care learners how to support these considerations for their patients/clients. It’s crucial to create learning opportunities to share the different perspectives each profession brings to the table. Participants will learn how to incorporate aspects of HE and/or SDOH into IPECP training and at the end of this session will be able to:• Describe a structure…