Mitchell
Heflin,
MD, MHS
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Interprofessional Education and Care (IPEC)
Duke Health
IPEC Center
Mitchell T. Heflin, MD, MHS, is Associate Dean and Director of the Duke Health Center for Interprofessional Education and Care (IPEC) and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics for Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing. As a leader in Geriatrics and health professions education, he has focused on development of education programs aimed at interprofessional teams introducing innovative models of care with a specific emphasis on community-based and perioperative care of frail older adults. In his current role, he oversees the design, delivery, and evaluation of interprofessional education programming for health professions students across campus.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description: We will discuss the development and implementation of a virtual, asynchronous, modular “Clinical Essentials of Telehealth” curriculum pilot designed for interprofessional health education students. Its current iteration includes eight modules focused on teaching the logistics of performing a telehealth visit and performing a systems-based virtual assessment.
Existing modules include: A Practical Approach to Performing a Telehealth Visit: Pearls and Pitfalls, General Assessment, Head and Neck Assessment, Cardiopulmonary Assessment, Musculoskeletal Assessment-…
Interprofessional Student Poster Description: Regular exercise has countless health benefits, but many patients face significant barriers to participation including environmental, motivational, and especially socioeconomic. Although dedicated exercise programs exist in Durham, North Carolina for children and seniors of lower socioeconomic status, there are limited initiatives for adults. The aim of Healthy STEPS is to increase exercise accessibility for Durham community members through partnership with Duke University health professional students. Providers at the Duke Cardiopulmonary…
Lightning Talk Description: In collaboration with the Duke University School of Nursing Student Success Center, the Duke Health Interprofessional Education and Care Center, and North Carolina Central University (NCCU), we implemented a positive psychology-informed Stress First Aid (SFA) training program for health professions students, faculty and staff at Duke and NCCU. This program aims to address stress and burnout present throughout the healthcare workforce.
SFA is a pre-clinical, peer-to-peer support training tool that teaches participants to assess and respond to suspected…
In 2018, two educators and a sociologist reflected on the inaugural symposium of the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) in an invited commentary in Academic Medicine. During the symposium, leadership noted that optimizing health care and clinical learning environments required improving interprofessional practice. But historically, physicians have not been at the interprofessional table to advance healthcare teams in practice.
The authors drew upon the classical Greek analogy of the Gordian Knot to describe the complex, “wicked”…