Katarina
Stark,
M3
Medical Student
The Medical College of Wisconsin
Katarina is a 3rd-year medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Previous experience in project and people management at Epic Systems Corporation and in Patient Experience fostered her love of collaborative problem solving and process improvement that equally engages all team members while keeping providers’ and patients’ needs at the center of innovation. Always curious about why systems or processes are the way they appear to be, advocating for improvement through respectful and transparent dialogue remains the cornerstone in all work she engages in.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic was a disruption that forced adaptation and innovation in interprofessional education. Conducting IPE virtually required additional planning and thought on ways to facilitate student interaction. The pandemic also impacted students’ individual experiences with health and healthcare, which needed to be shared and leveraged through IPE. As such, we developed a 2-hour IPE session which included students from medicine, nursing, and public health. Student groups were tasked with designing a COVID-19 vaccine clinic, focusing on the roles and responsibilities needed…
As interprofessional education shifted to virtual platforms this past year, challenges of engaging students and encouraging cross-role collaboration arose. Student input was sought out to guide the development of an activity that would serve as the cumulation of a four-session interprofessional education core thread. Adapting a model of faculty and student curriculum co-design, we created a timely problem-based learning activity that was relevant to all health professions: students would be tasked with creating a COVID-19 vaccination clinic proposal.
Small groups of medical, nursing,…