Sarah Garber, PhD
Professor, Director Interprofessional Studies COP
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Sarah S. Garber, PhD, is currently the Director of Interprofessional Studies and Professor in the College of Pharmacy, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. Dr. Garber received her Bachelor‘s degree in Biology and Chemistry from Barnard College and her PhD in Biochemistry from Brandeis University. Dr. Garber maintained an NIH funded research program focusing on ion channel physiology and cellular volume regulation for 15 years before focusing her scholarship and research of metacognitive learning within interprofessional team activity. She continues to be committed to promoting interprofessional student and faculty involvement in biomedical research, scholarship, education and assessment.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Healthcare curricula and education becomes more focused and challenging as students’ progress through their programs to become fully trained clinicians. Similarly, the inclusion of interprofessional knowledge and skills in healthcare curricula should match the development and complexity of students as they progress through their programs. This lightning talk will expand on data collected as healthcare students progress through their programs and focus on IPEC competencies students considered important as their knowledge and skills developed throughout their program. Changes in how students…