Alyssa Yeager, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Thomas Jefferson University
Alyssa Yeager, MD is a hospitalist and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. She is faculty co-lead for TeamSAFE programming at Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, an interprofessional student program that enhances communication, leadership, and patient safety skills in a simulated environment. Dr. Yeager earned her B.A. and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her scholarly interests include interprofessional simulation, quality improvement, and health equity.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Background: Microaggressions are commonplace indignities that communicate negative slights or insults against a particular group of people. Microaggressions impede healthcare professionals’ effective interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), which can have detrimental implications for patient outcomes.   IPCP microaggression training is proposed to facilitate structural change by mitigating implicit bias in healthcare. Existing educational frameworks aim to increase knowledge of microaggressions through lectures, problem-based learning, and discussions, but these approaches have…