Lindsay
Van Dam,
BA, DDH, MHS, RDH
PhD Student
Dalhousie University
Lindsay Van Dam is a PhD in Health student at Dalhousie University and registered dental hygienist. She has experience in IPE events and curriculum as a faculty member and dental hygiene educator. Lindsay’s areas of research include IPE and the integration of oral health professionals into interprofessional teams. She is supervised by Dr. Sheri Price, an expert in IPE and professional socialization for collaborative practice. In addition to contributing to Dr. Price’s longitudinal, qualitative program of research on pre-licensure IPE and professional socialization across 5 health programs, Lindsay’s doctoral research plans extend this research to include oral health professions.
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…
Background: Interprofessional collaboration between oral and health professionals supports enhanced patient care and outcomes. IPECP in pre-licensure education supports professional/interprofessional socialization. Within IPECP, students develop understanding of their professional role, identity and begin developing an interprofessional identity where collaborative attitudes, behaviours, and skills are developed. IPECP literature in oral health education is limited. It is not well understood how dental hygiene (DH) and dentistry (DDS) students are educated in IPECP and prepared for…
Purpose: Interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) within pre-licensure health education supports professional and interprofessional socialization where understanding of roles, scopes and collaboration are developed. IPECP also promotes interprofessional identity development where students come to embody collaborative skills, attitudes and behaviors that enable collaboration in practice. Medical students are involved in IPECP, however few studies have followed students longitudinally into practice to understand impacts of interprofessional practice experiences on…