Deborah
Chang,
PhD
Director, Curriculum Evaluation
University of Texas Health San Antonio
Dr. Chang is the Director for Curriculum Evaluation for the Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum at UT Health San Antonio’s Long School of Medicine and oversees operational aspects of the evaluation processes for the preclinical curriculum, specifically the management, review, and distribution of surveys. In addition, she prepares the findings from evaluation activities into reports for various constituents including the School of Medicine’s Curriculum Committee and its associated subcommittees, the School of Medicine’s departments, the Dean’s Office, and accrediting agencies.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Effective interprofessional education (IPE) is an opportunity to connect education to new models of healthcare. Increasing the scope of practice of medicine/dentistry, while increasing interactions, are proposed strategies to improve patients’ access and quality of care. In this Lightning Talk, we will describe the longitudinal expansion of preclinical IPE spanning the classroom/clinical learning environment in the clinical skills course and discuss the results from the first year of this expansion. The longitudinal activity courses two years in the medical/dental schools’ curriculum. In year…