Caroline
Jaeger
Osteopathic Medical Student, OMS-II
University of New England
Caroline is an osteopathic medical student in her second year who chose to pursue a career as an osteopathic physician because of the holistic approach to medicine that it exemplifies. Prior to medical school, she earned her bachelors of science degree from University of New England in Medical Biology and two minors in Nutrition and Health, Medicine, & Society. Caroline is an EMT and uses that license to provide medical care in both pre-hospital and hospital settings, locally and abroad.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) research has primarily concentrated on classroom, service-learning, and simulated student learning outcomes. Less is known about how IPE impacts future practice and whether and how knowledge gained in controlled academic environments is positively and enduringly transferred to the workforce. Presentation: This lightning talk offers findings from a mixed-methods study aimed at understanding the transfer of IPE knowledge, attitudes, and skills from campus to collaborative workforce practice. Participants included university alumni who had…