Shoshana
Sicks,
EdD
Director of Curriculum & Administration
Thomas Jefferson University
Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
Shoshana Sicks is Director of Curriculum and Administration for the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE) at Thomas Jefferson University. Her experience in higher education administration includes interprofessional education, curricular affairs, program and curriculum development and management, admissions and student services. Her recent work focuses on higher education mergers and teamwork and communication curricular innovations. Shoshana holds an AB in Spanish from Bowdoin College, an EdM in higher education administration from Harvard University and a EdD in higher education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative's (HPAC) guidance document on developing quality interprofessional education (IPE) for the health professions underscores the importance of utilizing shared terminology, providing clear rationale, and intentionally and longitudinally integrating interprofessional learning activities into professional curricula. To provide a consistent method for all health professions students to receive common foundational knowledge of IPE and collaborative practice (CP), an interprofessional team at the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and…
Lightning Talk Description: This lightning talk will describe the launching of formal, centralized interprofessional education (IPE) at Clarkson University through the adaptation and implementation of Team Care Planning (TCP). TCP is a simulated clinical discharge planning meeting where students experience working in an interprofessional team to plan the discharge of a patient from the hospital. Before the simulation, students review the patient’s medical record and watch a video about the hospital stay. The simulation involves students from different health professions meeting with the…
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…
Over the last three years, faculty and staff members of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Racial and Social Justice Taskforce (RSJT) have worked together to actualize the interconnectedness of interprofessional collaborative practice and the advancement of anti-racism in health education and practice. To aid in this work, the team created a curriculum self-study tool, intended to guide critical thinking and facilitate idea generation around issues of racial and social justice within and across the Center’s interprofessional education (IPE) programs. The tool…