Cynthia Andrews, DDS MEd
University Teaching Fellow & Faculty of Dentistry IPE Coordinator
Dalhousie University
Dr. Cynthia Andrews is a University Teaching Fellow in the Department of Dental Clinical Sciences and the Coordinator of Interprofessional Education in the Faculty of Dentistry at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is a member of the Dalhousie IPE/Sim-IPE Academic and Research Steering Committee, is a Director at the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) and chairs the CIHC Accreditation Standards Committee. Her research focuses on early professional socialization, psychological safety in facilitation of Sim-IPE, accreditation of IPE in Canada, integration of interprofessional education into curriculum design and delivery, and student experiences in interprofessional education.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Purpose: Interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), occurs when health professions work collaboratively with the goal of improved quality of care and services. IPCP is reported to enhance patient outcomes and care providers’ professional and workplace satisfaction, yet there exist myriad challenges to enacting it. Interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) is considered foundational for promoting collaboration among healthcare students yet there is a gap in understanding how IPECP contributes to students’ professional and interprofessional identity development and…