Shea Sawyer, BA
University of Minnesota
Shea Sawyer is the Behavioral Sciences Education Coordinator in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota. In this role, Shea supports educational initiatives and training for clinical educators and learners. She played a key role in the development of the Crucial Conversations Retreat, which serves as the foundation for this abstract.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

This Seminar builds upon a Lightning Talk presented at the 2024 Nexus Summit. The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School has devoted a decade of effort toward bolstering its interprofessional education workforce. At the 2024 Summit, presenters shared results from a half-day workshop with faculty and learners on interprofessional collaborative practice. Feedback from participants following the workshop identified a relative weakness in communication - particularly related to conflict - in comparison with other IPEC competencies.…