Deborah
Engle,
EdD, MS
Assistant Dean for Assessment and Evaluation
Duke University School of Medicine
Deborah L Engle, EdD, MS works at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC where she serves as the Assistant Dean for Assessment and Evaluation and as Associate Professor of the Practice of Medical Education. Her medical education expertise includes best practices in assessment, program evaluation, curriculum design and scholarship. Her research interests focus on assessment of clinical skills, predicting learner performance across the medical education continuum, faculty development in medical education, and interprofessional education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The COVID-19 pandemic led health systems to increasingly rely on telehealth for patient care. Despite rapidly changing clinical and regulatory environments, most healthcare providers and students were not equipped with formal training in telehealth-specific skills. With support from the American Medical Association, we convened an interprofessional team of clinicians and student leaders from UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke to develop a virtual interprofessional telehealth curriculum. The curriculum consisted of five, 90-minute, online interactive course sessions, including an introduction to…