Amy
Blue,
PhD
Associate Vice President for interprofessional education
University of Florida
Amy Blue, PhD, is the associate vice president for interprofessional education in the UF Health Office- Senior Vice President for Health Affairs. She is also a clinical professor in the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ Department of Environmental and Global Health. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Interprofessional Care and the Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice. Dr. Blue served on the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel that wrote the Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Report. In 2013, she was elected Distinguished Scholar and Fellow in the National Academies of Practice, Dentistry Academy. An initial founder of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC). Dr. Blue is currently an Advisory Board member and recently was selected as Chair Elect of the organization.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Master adaptive learning has been adopted as a conceptual underpinning for professional development and continuous lifelong learning. The ability to adapt expertise to routine and uncommon situation is essential in all the health professions. Master adaptive learning encourages agility and creativity and provides ways to do this across the continuum of learning and clinical situations. To date, however, the concepts and strategies associated with master adaptive learning have been applied primarily at the level of individual learner.
This seminar explores how elements critical in developing…
Note: This event is open to all IPE institutional leaders; Nexus Summit 2021 registration is not required.
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Recognizing the needs of IPE institutional leaders, we are hosting an initial meeting to explore development of an IPE Institutional Leader Community. All IPE institutional leaders are welcomed to attend; membership in the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) is not necessary.
We envision our purposes are to:
a) serve as a mechanism for IPE institutional leaders to gain advice and share strategies for success and overcoming…
In the health professions pipeline, attrition of Black students is a substantial issue. Black college students face several challenges, including a lack of academic integration and institutional support, resource barriers, and few role models. Nationally, Black students enter college at a similar rate to White students but change majors or leave college before receiving a degree (Wilbur et al., 2020). Black students often present high distress, isolation, depression, and anxiety (Soto et al., 2016). These factors, combined with systemic racism and overlapping crises, fail to encourage Black…