Kayla
Street,
MPH, MS, PA-C
Assistant Professor & Faculty Clinical Coordinator, School of Physician Assistant Studies
Eastern Michigan University
Ms. Street is a certified physician assistant with a Masters in Public health. She has clinical experience in primary care, practicing in outpatient non-profit and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) settings. Her special interests include pediatrics and adolescent medicine, as well as public health, health equity, medical ethics, and quality improvement and patient safety. In addition to teaching in the PA program, she is the Lead Clinical Consultant for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Child and Adolescent Health Center Program (CAHC).
Ms. Street is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV), where she served as a health education volunteer in Albania from 2006-2008.
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…