Karen
Dickinson,
MBBS, BSc, MD, MEd, CHSE-A, FRCS
Director of IPE Simulation and Clinical Skills Training
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Dr Dickinson is Assistant Professor of Surgery and the Director of IPE Simulation and Clinical SkillsTraining at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, AR. She is Surgical Director and Associate Medical Director of the American College of Surgeons Accredited Educational Institute (ACSAEI) the UAMS Centers for Simulation Education. She completed her surgical training in both the UK and US, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is board certified in general surgery, and has completed a General Thoracic Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester. Subsequently she completed an AACSAEI Surgical Simulation Fellowship at the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology Innovation and Education. She matriculated with Honors from the University of Houston with a Masters in Education. She is a Certified Simulation Healthcare Educator-Advanced (CHSE-A). She received the 2022 Linnea Hauge PhD Promising Educational Scholar Award from the Association of Surgical Education and the 2024 UAMS Educational Research Award for the quality of her educational research. Her research interests include surgical simulation, interprofessional simulation education, patient education and virtual learning.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Advancing health science, clinical care, and health system research is essential for healthcare effectiveness and efficiency. Health research includes bench/lab science, clinical science, community-based science, population science, implementation science, translational science, etc. Our interprofessional curriculum incorporates all students, healthcare professions and graduate school scientific disciplines, to consider health influencers and their impact from bench to bedside to breadth of population health. We incorporate activities inclusive of basic science disciplines and create…
Patients with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) have specific healthcare challenges and needs. Students infrequently receive training/have opportunity to interact with patients with ID in the absence of a specialty training site. Simulation education affords opportunity for deliberate practice regarding identification of challenges, development of appropriate management plan and anticipation of potential issues. In the spirit of “Person, Family and Community-Engaged Practice and Education,” we partnered with the Special Olympics Arkansas (SOA) chapter Director to pair goals for health…
Education regarding best practices managing health and disease of older adults is needed. Escape rooms are an effective Sim-IPE strategy. We describe a workshop-based peer-learning experience using a workbook where interprofessional geriatric-focused scholars are preceptored to create and deliver an educational escape room focused on the 4Ms of Age Friendly Healthcare (AFHC), ie what Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility. This work supports “Preparing Students for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice” on two fronts. One builds collaborative skills to design interprofessional…