Kimberly
Kascak,
MS
Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Kimberly Kascak is an Assistant Professor in the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She has a background in special education, medical education, academic innovation and online instructional design. She has worked collaboratively with interprofessional teams throughout her career. She has developed and coordinated innovative online academic programs with continual ongoing educational support to programs. She is a certified TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer, currently focusing on collaborative, interprofessional and online instruction. Kimberly directs and co-directs interprofessional courses required of first year students at MUSC to teach introductory concepts related to interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Preparing future health professionals for effective patient communication and interprofessional collaboration remains a central challenge in health education. The authors developed an AI-powered virtual patient platform with support from an NIH R41 STTR grant, aiming to provide scalable, lifelike simulation experiences that foster clinical interviewing and teamwork skills in interprofessional educational settings.This presentation shares findings from two key components of our research and development process. First, we describe outcomes from the R41-funded Phase I study, which involved…
This Lightning Talk will review a newly developed educational tool called Figment Mentor under development at MUSC. Students select and create an interprofessional colleague avatar and ask interview questions to learn more about different professions and how their own profession participates in collaborative practice. The system uses a large language AI model to respond to students’ interview questions. Figment Mentor was used in assignments in two different interprofessional courses. Approximately 200 interprofessional students were enrolled in these courses and completed the assignment.…