Roberta
Rusch,
MPH
Assistant Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Roberta Rusch, MPH has been the Assistant Director at the University of Wisconsin Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE) since 2017. Prior, Roberta was the Phase 2 Curriculum Manager and Director, Longitudinal Thread Integration, and in earlier roles, as the Clerkship Curriculum Manager and Director, Core Curriculum Days in the Medical Education Office at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH), Roberta’s extensive experience in IPCP includes curriculum design, program evaluation, faculty development and administrative programming. Her MPH degree focused on maternal and child health and previously worked in women’s health education at the national level.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
As evidence mounts for the positive patient and workforce outcomes of interprofessional education (IPE), educators must not only offer comprehensive instruction of IPEC competencies but also nurture the next generation in IPE leadership and scholarship. To achieve this latter goal, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE), in collaboration with its ten program/school partners, developed the longitudinal UW Interprofessional Practice and Education Path of Distinction (UW IPE PoD) Program (https://cipe.wisc.edu/education/#pod). The UW…
This Lightning Talk will describe how our institution uses a mock debate between various interprofessional health profession learners to explore the ethical considerations of whether an individual should be listed on a transplant registry. This unique format simulates discussions that often take place during ethics consults and challenges students to apply their individual professions’ codes of conduct to a realistic case while working as part of an interprofessional team. Students gain important experience collaborating with peers from other health professions and are challenged to consider…