Diana
McNeill,
MD
Director of Duke AHEAD(Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development)
Duke University
Diana McNeill is Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina . She was the program director of the Duke Internal Medicine Residency program from 2001-2011 and became the inaugural Director of Duke AHEAD (Academy of Health Professions Education and Academic Development) in 2014. She has won numerous teaching awards , including Master Clinician Educator at Duke in 2006. She is a Master in the American College of Physicians and in 2020 received the Dema Daley Award from the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine , honoring a member recognized nationally as an education leader.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic drastically expanded reliance on virtual care in clinical practice, as it offers increased flexibility and expanded access to care, particularly for patients with complex medical needs who are disproportionately impacted by non-medical drivers of health. Hotspotting programs partner health professions students with patients identified as “high utilizers” of health care resources in order to address social barriers to health, improve access to primary care, and reduce patient emergency department overutilization. Telehealth offers a solution to common social…
The Duke Outpatient Clinic is an internal medicine resident-lead, community-based practice which serves a medically complex patient population, many of whom are un- or underinsured. Due to the volume of patients with diabetes not meeting glycemic goals, an interprofessional, diabetes-focused team was formed to address this need. The multidisciplinary team consists of a precepting physician, clinical pharmacist and learners, advanced practice providers, licensed clinical social workers (LCSW), a registered dietician, endocrinology fellows, and internal medicine residents. Our interprofessional…
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted nearly every component of health professions education including professional development opportunities for interprofessional educators. In this session, participants can learn how faculty and staff at one academic medical center maintained existing programming and created new professional development opportunities for educators in virtual formats. Professional development opportunities included a monthly education grand rounds, two 12 month-long teaching certificate programs, social events, and a short-course for educators facilitating interprofessional…
Participants in this seminar will discuss how mentorship is an essential part of leadership development, especially now as we recover from the Covid pandemic. Leadership strategies have pivoted as a result of the pandemic. Leaders now need to address the languishing attitudes in their teams, as identified by sociologist Corey Keyes (“The Mental Health Continuum: From Languishing to Flourishing in Life.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 43: 207-222, 2002), as well as business professor and author Adam Grant (New York Times, 4/23/2021). Languishing is a term used to describe the “void…
Establishing robust interprofessional education programs requires work on institution culture, policy, logistics, and finance across a wide range of stakeholders. In 2019, Duke Health opened the Interprofessional Education and Care (IPEC) Center to promote interprofessional teamwork across campus. The IPEC Director looked to the leader of the Duke Academy for Health Professions Education and Academic Development (AHEAD), an organization founded in 2014 focused on faculty development, for “organizational mentoring” in navigating key steps in the center’s development.
In this talk, we, as the…
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…