Raina
Leckie,
DSW, LCSW
Unity Clinic Program Manager
Office of Interprofessional Programs
Dr. Raina Leckie, DSW, LCSW, has worked at the University of Oklahoma for 10 years, and brings expertise in social work, mental health practice, and higher education to her new role as Unity Clinic Program Manager. She is passionate about interprofessional education, student engagement, and patient-centered community health practice. Raina joins the IPE team in a full-time staff position focused on managing Unity Clinic, our award winning interdisciplinary learning and practice clinical educational experience for students. Raina completed the Master of Social Work degree at the University of Oklahoma, and the Doctorate of Social Work at the University of Tennessee.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Behavioral Health is an underexplored opportunity for interprofessional student clinics and experiences. This is due to a number of reasons including the private nature of behavioral health sessions and lack of access to students who are in behavioral health programs. Incorporating social work students as leaders and providers of clinical interventions is often difficult in health systems that focus on prescribing as the main form of intervention for improving health outcomes. To address this gap, our team focused on identifying best practices for behavioral health interventions in an…
Fostering collaborative competence among future health professionals is essential for high-functioning, patient-centered care. Virtual synchronous simulation has emerged as a reliable and accessible method for developing interprofessional team skills. At the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences, the Interprofessional Education (IPE) program has implemented a structured virtual simulation framework designed to promote rapid team formation and collaborative practice across diverse health disciplines. During the 2024–2025 academic year, over 1,800 students from the Colleges of Allied Health,…
Background• Unity Clinic is the student-run, faculty facilitated interprofessional clinical experience at the University of Oklahoma.• Unity’s mission is to promote clinical interprofessional collaboration between current and future healthcare providers while delivering patient-centered, high-quality health care to under-served populations of Oklahoma.• Unity at Crossings provides team-based primary care services to under-served and underinsured populations in the Oklahoma City area. Patients receive services from medicine, nursing, nutrition, dentistry, and social work. The collaborative…