Daniel
Kruger,
PhD
Research Investigator
University of Michigan
Daniel J. Kruger is based in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He uses evolutionary theory to advance understanding in a wide range of areas in human psychology and behavior, and also conducts collaborative and applied projects to help understand and improve community health. He collaborates with researchers around the world and has written over two hundred articles and book chapters in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Housing and Urban Development, Michigan Department of Community Health, and other agencies and foundations. He has taught graduate and undergraduate coursework in statistics and research methods and has mentored students at the undergraduate, Masters, Doctoral, and Post-Doctoral levels. He has written over two hundred articles and book chapters in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Dental medicine students often rate Interprofessional (IP) educational experiences as a lower priority for their curriculum than peers in other health professions. This may be due to the lack of exposure to other professions in standard dental medicine curricula. This study investigates trends in perceived interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) skills among third-year dental medicine students participating in two exposure level experiences with students from other professions across a large academic health center. Two cohorts of D3 dental medicine students (2018-2019 and 2019-2020)…
It is important to assess the effectiveness of all interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) activities; however, current assessment measures pose considerable time burdens to participants and event logistics. Continual innovation in assessment needs to remain a priority for IPE programs. The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) is a frequently used assessment measure of perceived IPCP skill levels. This survey is administered after an interprofessional learning experience and uses a retrospective pre-test/post-test design to assess 20 items and includes…
Measurement tools in interprofessional education (IPE) are at their infancy. Establishing the effectiveness of IPE experiences is essential, and the current assessment measures may be subject to various types of bias. Innovations in the assessment of IPE activities should be a priority, including assessing the properties of existing widely used measures. Traditional pretest/posttest measures are believed to measure change as a result of an IPE experience by asking learners to identify knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors before an IPE experience and then again after the experience. The…