Sara
North,
PT, DPT, PhD, M.Ed., PNAP
Co-Director, Center for Interprofessional Health; Director of Ed. Innovation & Eval., Division of PT
University of Minnesota
Sara North PT, DPT, PhD, M.Ed., PNAP serves as Co-Director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Interprofessional Health and Director of Educational Innovation and Evaluation and Associate Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy in the Medical School. She completed her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree, PhD in Evaluation Studies, and Masters of Education - Community Health Educator. Her scholarly and professional passions include interprofessional curriculum development and assessment, systems-level approaches to organizational change, clinical education, population health, diversity in health professions, and collaborative initiatives to move interprofessional education forward through academic-clinical partnerships and data-informed curricular design and assessment.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description: This Lightning Talk describes the inaugural year of an interprofessional education (IPE) workforce development program organized by the Center for Interprofessional Health at the University of Minnesota. This program created a symbiotic relationship between the University’s IPE Center and preceptors in academic and community clinical learning environments. This work is an example of theme 2: Practice-Education Partnerships Advancing Care with People and Communities. Not only does this activity create partnerships across education and clinical practice, it also…
Seminar Description: The need for intentionally structured IPE experiences with clear goals and metrics across the learning continuum has been nationally and repeatedly endorsed. The 2019 Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC) report stresses the importance of developing and organizing quality IPE programs, including systematic institutional IPE approaches, collaboration across academic programs to scaffold learning experiences appropriate to learners’ levels, and longitudinal integration into existing professional curricula. However, challenges in designing systematic IPE…
Lightning Talk Description: This lightning talk revisits an innovative continuing education curriculum for health professionals highlighted at the 2022 National Center Summit with an additional year’s worth of data. This program helps busy clinician-educators develop and apply the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies in their roles as providers and preceptors within interprofessional clinical learning environments. This work is an example of theme 2: Practice-Education Partnerships Advancing Care with People and Communities. Not only does this activity provide…