Stefanie
Ellison,
MD, FACEP
Associate Dean for Learning Initiatives
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Stefanie R. Ellison, M.D FACEP is an emergency physician and the Associate Dean for Learning Initiatives at the UMKC School of Medicine where she is responsible for Service Learning for the School of Medicine and to develop and implement Interprofessional Education curriculum and assessment across the UMKC Health Sciences professional programs in dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. She has ten years of experience in implemeting IPE at UMKC. She also contributes to grant-based research activities to improve health inequities in the Kansas City area. She has expanded community engagement activities for medical students to improve access to Covid-19 vaccinations, testing and screening for c hronic disease for under-represented minorities in Kansas City. Her research interests include Interprofessional education, social determinants of health, health equity, service learning and curriculum development and management.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Dr. Hotspot event is the second of four interprofessional education (IPE) activities integrated across a four-year curriculum and engages learners from schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and social work. The annual event was initiated in-person fall of 2013 and transitioned online in 2018 secondary to the pandemic. The same assessment tools to gauge learner attitudes have been utilized for ten years. Learner-perceived value of the IPE experience for education and future practice readiness has declined. Since the transition to a virtual event, the data has not been analyzed…