Rachel
Larson,
DVM
Clinical Assistant Professor and Doctoral Candidate
Washington State University
Rachel Larson is a small animal veterinarian by training and a doctoral candidate in mathematics and science education. Her passions include One Health, comparative medicine and K12/University partnerships. She is the developer and instructor of the One Health curriculum at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. In this role she offers a virtual, summer time elective for second year medical students as well as the interactive One Health Day that is featured in this talk. While she is no longer a practicing veterinarian, she enjoys discussing the similarities and differences of the species divide academically.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
There are 22 fields represented in the Interprofessional Educators Collaborative; of these, 21 are human medical fields, and only one represents veterinary medicine. Owing to this disparity, interprofessional education (IPE) is often used to describe learning that occurs between fields of human medicine, but rarely crosses the species divide. Responding to the importance of the Summit theme, Navigating Complexity to Advance Outcomes, One Health Day challenges the status quo and dives into addressing the complexity of the species divide in not just IPE but in the health sciences as a whole, by…