Rajesh
Mangrulkar,
MD
Director
University of Michigan
Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education
Dr. Rajesh Mangrulkar is a Professor of Medicine and Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan, and serves as the Director for the Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education. His work focuses on organizational leadership and innovation, transforming education at scale to advance the social good. In 2021, he was charged by the University of Michigan to build an innovative community of practice to transform education and improve health. His role as Director of U-M's Center for IPE is one of three to help foster this goal. For 10 years prior, he served as U-M’s Associate Dean for Medical Student Education. He has published over 60 journal articles, given over 250 presentations, and was the host of the inaugural season of the AMA’s podcast series, “AMA Doc Talk.”
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Poster Description: Background: Interprofessional teamwork within healthcare delivery has been shown to improve patient satisfaction, decrease provider burnout, and lead to improved healthcare outcomes. The patient is a critical part of this team, and their perspective has become an increased focus in health care decision making. At our institution, we found that there was no correlation between staff perception of team functioning and patient perception of team functioning or overall patient experience. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate patients' awareness of team-based…
Across the nation, health and higher education systems are under pressure from internal and external forces and demands - financially, politically, demographics, changing public perceptions, pressures from boards of directors, workforce under- and over- supply, and the demand for new business models. With senior leaders setting the organizational tone and culture at the top, where does that leave health teams in practice and the relevance of interprofessional education today? Are we viewed as cost centers living at the margins or contributors to solve today’s challenges? What are the new…
Centers for IPE have had success in co-developing IPE curricula with student leaders, leading to more meaningful and relevant IPE for health professional students. IPE leaders have also bemoaned the “hidden curriculum” of experiential settings, often undoing the IPE advancements made in the didactic setting. While there is a new opportunity for IPE faculty and centers to transform interprofessional practice and experiential education, we have not discussed how to leverage our students as partners and co-developers in leading this change. We invite students, practitioners, educators and IPE…