Amy Greminger, MD
Faculty, Center for Interprofessional Health
University of Minnesota
Amy Greminger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus. She also serves as faculty in the Center for Interprofessional Health. Her clinical practice centers on working with patients and interprofessional teams in the hospice and palliative care context. Dr. Greminger is passionate about teaching, and serves as a course director (Becoming a Doctor), clinical instructor, and advisor for undergraduate medical students.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

This lightning talk highlights the findings of three recent publications in a series of analyses designed to build the evidence base for interprofessional education (IPE). Best practices have not yet been established in the IPE literature to guide the ideal dose and duration of IPE experiences across the curriculum, nor is it known how best to measure interprofessional competency development across experiences and over time. Further, differences in interprofessional competency attainment between health professions and/or learner degree level following participation in a foundational IPE…
Recognizing that in 2020 we would have a new Health Science Education Center (HSEC), we knew this was an opportunity to study the effects of the building on the informal interactions that students have with each other. The 7-story building has state-of-the-art classrooms, a simulation center, an interprofessional lounge, and an interprofessional study area for all schools to use rather than learning and gathering in highly distributed and siloed sites.Our primary questions were whether the HSEC building changes the nature of the interactions among health profession students. We invited…
This lightning talk will describe the IPE Scholars Program, a program designed to foster and recognize IPE excellence in motivated student learners. This program allows students to receive a formal distinction on their diploma in interprofessional practice. Students from any profession are able to elect to apply to this program. While this program is still evolving, it currently focuses on helping students grow in IPE knowledge, skills, and practice. We will describe how we recruit, engage, and track students as they navigate this program. Students from any discipline are welcome to apply…
While some literature and organizational documentation exists describing interprofessional education (IPE) team resources and institutional structures, little is shared regarding the teamwork, communication, and roles and responsibilities within IPE teams. In line with the Nexus Summit theme “Developing and Sustaining Leadership in Interprofessional Practice and Education,” this seminar session presents the perspectives of the University of Minnesota Center for Interprofessional Health (CIH) leadership, faculty, and staff regarding the past, current, and future state of operations in…
This lightning talk will describe the process of building an interprofessional resource focused on grief and the end of life. Work began in early 2022 to pull together a taskforce on Death, Dying, and Disposition, and this work was subsequently split into 3 subgroups. This group represents the resources/research subgroup.This group identified a gap in a lack of a national database with an interprofessional focus focused on end of life materials. Members from the taskforce as a whole were asked to submit resources, and then an interprofessional group convened to decide on a forum/site for…