Michelle
Masterson,
P.T., PhD
Director, School of Interprofessional Education
University of Toledo
Dr. Michelle Masterson has been the Director of the School of Interprofessional Education at the University of Toledo (UT) since May 2019. She was a faculty member in the Physical Therapy (PT) Program at UT since 1989 and its program director from 2008 until her retirement in 2018. While in her positions in the PT Program, she was a member of the IPE Steering Committee that developed and implemented the IPE program for all first-year healthcare students beginning in 2013. She also collaborated with an interprofessional healthcare team to develop and implement the Parkinson’s Disease Interdisciplinary Clinic.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) has been shown to improve patient outcomes while decreasing healthcare costs, both of which contribute to WHO’s Quadruple Aim. Interprofessional education (IPE) is a critical component in the learning process for healthcare professionals to be prepared to address clients’ unmet SDOH needs. The purpose of our project is to evaluate the effectiveness of using novel instructional methodologies to thread the SDOH domains and IPEC competencies throughout a large-scale IPE program. The IPE program, implemented annually, trains approximately 620…