Kathleen
Waite,
MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University
Dr. Kathleen Waite is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. She obtained her medical degree from Duke University and Internal Medicine residency at Duke. She is actively involved in medical student education. Currently she is the co-medical director for the Inter-professional Education Clinic that brings together nursing, medical, physician assistant, and physical therapy faculty and students to care for patients in the urgent care setting. She is also course director for the Introduction to Outpatient General Internal Medicine at Duke and teaches in the Duke Capstone course.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Duke Interprofessional Education (IPE) center, situated in the Duke emergency department, fosters interprofessional health education for pre-licensure students across various Duke medical programs (DPT, MD, PA-C, NP, and ABSN). Acknowledging high patient referrals for physical therapy, IPE leadership integrated the Duke Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program into the experience. Qualtrics surveys captured patient perspectives, including physical therapy (PT) interactions, shaping this lightning talk's exploration of PT's role in the IPE clinic and its impact on patient outcomes.…
Established in 2015 within the Duke Emergency Department, the Duke Interprofessional Education (IPE) Clinic fosters interprofessional collaboration and clinical skill development through direct patient care. Serving patient populations that tend to be at-risk and underserved, the IPE clinic familiarizes future healthcare providers with collaborative care during pre-licensure education. In 2017, Duke Doctor of Physical Therapy students and faculty were integrated into the clinic. Overall student experiences in the clinic are evaluated via an end-of-clinic Qualtrics survey. This Lightning Talk…
Telehealth has become a mainstream form of patient engagement since the pandemic. Prior to COVID, health profession students had limited or no exposure to telehealth. Currently, health profession programs are increasingly adopting telehealth training into their curriculum. Given the "newness" of telehealth curricula, there is an opportunity to train health profession students in the use of telehealth utilizing an interprofessional collaborative practice model. Such an approach will benefit students and patients as this "frontier" form of patient engagement will be populated with providers who…