Phil Rodgers, PharmD
Director of Interprofessional Education and Practice
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Phil Rodgers is an associate professor and director of interprofessional education and practice at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His areas of scholarship and teaching are in interprofessional education and practice, diabetes management, and innovative pharmacy education programs. He also serves as vice chair of education for the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education at the School. His practice focus has been in primary/ambulatory care in interprofessional practice models in multiple institutions. He has been named a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

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…