Elizabeth
Barnhardt,
DO, MAEd
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University
Dr. Elizabeth Barnhardt is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University. She is passionate about medical education and serves as one of the Interprofessional Education Champions for The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Director of Competency in Interprofessional Collaboration. She has a particular interest in interprofessional collaboration in the care of children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and currently serves as a core faculty member for the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities program at The Ohio State University.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
It is well-established that interprofessional learning must occur in clinical learning environments (IOM, WHO). In 2023, leaders from the Doctor of Medicine (MD) curriculum and the Office of Interprofessional Practice and Education (OIPE) at The Ohio State University developed a new module for medical students to learn interprofessional (IP) collaborative competencies within a required clinical experience, Understanding Patients Within Populations (PWP). The “IPE in PWP: Identifying and Reflecting on Interprofessional Collaboration in Clinical Practice” module aims to enable immersive IP…