Jessica
Stamatis,
MS, PA-C
Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education, School of Physician Assistant Studies
Eastern Michigan University
Ms. Stamatis has previous teaching experience in both the EMU and Wayne State University PA Programs. She is a physician assistant with 16 years of clinical experience in emergency and urgent care medicine, practicing with an urban, underserved patient population in Detroit. She has also previously worked in the field of internal medicine as a PA. She has precepted PA students during their clinical rotations throughout her career. Ms. Stamatis continues to practice clinically in both the urgent care and emergency room settings.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This Lightning Talk will describe how clinical reasoning was applied collaboratively in an interprofessional education (IPE) workshop involving Physician Assistant (PA) and Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) students. The session was designed to help students actively contribute to diagnostic decision-making by applying their discipline-specific skills to a shared clinical case. The talk will highlight how structured team-based reasoning, peer teaching, and discipline-specific knowledge contributed to diagnostic accuracy and decision-making. Attendees will gain insight into an interprofessional…
Rising maternal death rates in the United States necessitates the improvement in quality of care for postpartum patients. Health outcomes are improved by interprofessional practice and collaborative communication. Simulated postpartum complications with healthcare students improved interprofessional communication, and prepared future professionals to increase the quality of postpartum care.Nursing and physician assistant students participated in an event that included two interprofessional simulations where standardized patients portrayed signs and symptoms of postpartum hemorrhage and…