Elena
Riccio Leach,
DDS, MS
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Dr. Elena Riccio Leach is a full-time Assistant Professor at UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry. She is the director of the International Dentist Education Program and course director of the Clinical Patient Management course for the junior dental students.
Her service commitments, among others, include being part of the LINC Clinical IPE group with the intent of researching and informing best practices in clinical interprofessional education at the university level.
Dr. Riccio Leach also practices as a provider at the UT Dentistry Faculty Practice Clinic.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Implementing large-scale clinical interprofessional education (IPE) experiences within clinical learning environments (CLEs) remains challenging. We previously piloted an IPE experience to bridge this divide and unite learners across diverse CLEs. In this Lightning Talk, we will report on a large-scale, successful implementation of an interprofessionally designed, para-clinical IPE experience targeting IPEC-derived teamwork concepts involving students at our large public health sciences university in academic year 2023-2024.
Our interprofessional team designed, piloted, refined, and…