Margaret Robinson, MEd
Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Programs
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Margaret Robinson is the Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Programs in the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She coordinates the development, implementation and evaluation a comprehensive, cohesive, competency-driven menu of interdisciplinary learning experiences. This includes a two-year curricular program and supporting faculty development, student engagement, and research activities.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

This presentation addresses the selected theme and subtheme in that it is a description of developing a certificate program targeting faculty, staff, and other educators in the colleges and schools within OU across all three campuses. This includes medicine, social work, pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health administration, public health, audiology, dentistry, nutritional sciences, speech language pathology, nursing, physicians assistants, and imaging technology (radiation sciences, nuclear medicine, sonography). The certificate program is targeting faculty and staff at any…
The COVID pandemic disrupted many long established interprofessional experiences that had been designed for traditional in-person delivery. When mandatory shutdowns began in April 2020, our campus IPE team was already in the midst of planning an in-person All Professions Day 1 (Fall 2020) and 2 (Spring 2021) that would each involve more than 1200 students and faculty from across three campuses. We decided to use our existing technology to produce these IPE events as planned. Immediate changes included identifying zoom capacities for our institutional licenses. That dictated the number of…
Transitioning from a grassroots team of interprofessional champions to a comprehensive program of interprofessional education, research, and service during an international pandemic, we were challenged with developing a logic model to bring order to our rapidly evolving interprofessional education (IPE) program. A logic model provides a visual map showing the relationships among resources, activities, outputs, outcomes and impact for a program (CDC, 2018). At the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), IPE activities have been occurring informally as far back as 2012. In 2017…