Molly
Smith,
MS
Interim Director, Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development
University of Kansas Medical Center
Molly Smith is a Continuing Education Coordinator in the Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She provides support and leadership for interprofessional continuing education. Before coming to KU, Molly was the Director of Continuing Education at Baker University where she oversaw the planning, development, and implementation of all initiatives associated with continuing education and cooperative partnerships in PK-12 educational communities across the state of Kansas.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description: Traditional approaches to interprofessional education focus on health professions students, who then graduate to find themselves employed in practice settings where the workplace culture does not support collaborative practice. The continuing education team is the missing link to overcoming this hidden curriculum and preparing the current and future workforce for interprofessional collaborative practice. It takes planning and leading by and for the continuing education team and learning with, from, and about each other to transition from siloed uniprofessional to…