Kimberly
Kascak,
M.S.
Assistant Professor, Office of Interprofessional Initiatives
Medical University of South Carolina
Kimberly Kascak is an Assistant Professor in the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She has a background in special education, medical education, academic innovation and online instructional design. She has worked collaboratively with interprofessional teams throughout her career. She has developed and coordinated innovative online academic programs with continual ongoing educational support to programs. She is a certified TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer, currently focusing on collaborative, interprofessional and online instruction. Kimberly directs and co-directs interprofessional courses required of first year students at MUSC to teach introductory concepts related to interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background (Part of the AIHC Mentoring Program)The Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine has embarked on an ambitious project to enhance the interprofessional education (IPE) of public health students through the creation of innovative online modules. The need for this project stems from a recognized gap in interprofessional competencies among public health graduates, which hinders effective collaboration in real-world settings. To address this, we collaborated with experts from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical Branch at…
In November 2023, the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Executive Board released version 3 of the IPEC Core Competencies to reflect the changing IPEC membership and to advance current research, policy, education, and practice realities. Given the changes to the competencies and lack of current assessment tools, this seminar will provide participants with much needed opportunity to discuss application of the competencies to the interprofessional learning continuum model (IPLC) (Institute of Medicine, 2015) and how this might be useful for evaluating application of the…