Kimberly
Somers,
PT, DPT
Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy
Creighton University
Dr. Kimberly Somers serves as the Director of Clinical Education for Creighton University’s Physical Therapy Program in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a Board-Certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist with a passion for educational research focused on students’ professional formation, moral agency, clinical education, and interprofessional education. Dr. Somers also serves as the Director of Assessment for Creighton University’s Center for Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research. In this role, she engages students in uncovering the complexities and power of interprofessional collaboration to prepare them to advocate for their patients, themselves, and the broader health of society.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Management reasoning—the cognitive and contextual processes that guide patient care decisions after a diagnosis—is an essential yet underdeveloped element of interprofessional education. It connects treatment planning, care progression, patient preferences, and resource use with the realities of collaborative clinical decision-making. Aligned with the Nexus Summit 2025 theme of preparing students for interprofessional collaborative practice, this 60-minute seminar introduces management reasoning as a critical mindset that bridges clinical reasoning and interprofessional team-based care.While…
Interprofessional education (IPE) assessment is inherently complex and prickly. Challenges arise from the need to analyze data across diverse health professions, various levels of learners, numerous learning environments (e.g. classroom, simulation, clinical practice) and in contexts where competence in teams and teamwork, rather than individual performance, are the focus of evaluation. This complexity is compounded by the wide range of learning activities used to meet interprofessional competencies and the substantial time required for faculty to meaningfully review large volumes of data. At…