Christine
Arenson,
MD
Director, National Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education
University of Minnesota
Christine A. Arenson, MD, FNAP is the Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. Dr. Arenson previously served as Alumni Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was the founding Director of the Jefferson Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care and founding Co-Director of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. She has been actively engaged in primary care transformation to meet the Quintuple Aim, including implementation of new Advanced Primary Care Models across the Jefferson primary care network.
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…