Kathleen
Waite,
MD
Professor Medicine
Duke University
Dr. Kathleen Waite is a Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. She obtained her medical degree from Duke University and Internal Medicine residency at Duke. She is actively involved in medical student education. Served as co-medical director for the Interprofessional Education Clinic that brings together nursing, medical, physician assistant, physical therapy, and pharmacy faculty and students to care for patients in the urgent care setting. She is also course director for the Introduction to Outpatient General Internal Medicine at Duke and teaches in the Duke Capstone course
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing developed an interprofessional student clinical experience which brings together students and faculty from the doctor of allopathy (MD), accelerated bachelors of science in nursing (ABSN), nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA), and doctor of physical therapy (DPT) programs to provide interprofessional (IP) and collaborative care to patients presenting to the Duke emergency department (ED). The IP experience focuses on team-based, hands-on patient care as well as learning from, with, and about each of the professions. At the end of…
Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing developed an interprofessional student clinical experience which brings together students and faculty from their professional programs including doctor of allopathy (MD), advanced bachelors of science in nursing (ABSN), nurse practitioner (NP), physician assistant (PA), physical therapy (PT) to provide collaborative care to patients presenting to the Duke emergency department (ED). The interprofessional experience focuses on team-based, hands-on patient care as well as learning from and with each of the professions. A clinical faculty member is…