Moshtagh
Farokhi,
DDS, MPH, MAGD
Associate Professor/Clinical
School of Dentistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Moshtagh Farokhi DDS, MPH, MAGD, brings private practice and teaching experience to the UT Health San Antonio, School of Dentistry. Her interests are at the intersection of disease prevention and health promotion. Her research concentration is centered at social determinants of health, interprofessional education, refugee health and acculturation. She collaborates with various professions and partners with local community organizations to address health disparities. Since 2011, she is the dental director for the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic, an interprofessional collaborative. She is an inductee to Mu Nu Chapter of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society. She has been representing the UTHSA, SOD as the Quality Enhancement Plan or Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration or LINC Faculty Council Member since 2018. Prior to that she served as the UTHSA, SOD faculty liaison for the institutional QEP from 2017-2018.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: The Quality Enhancement Plan at UT Health San Antonio, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), serves as the institutional blueprint for transforming campus-wide interprofessional education (IPE). A key component of this plan includes cultivating knowledge and skills in faculty and staff to increase IPE opportunities for learners. The LINC Faculty and Staff Development Program was launched in Fall 2020 to achieve this goal. Design/Methodology: This program included three synchronous online workshops. The first workshop provided a broad overview of IPE…
Interprofessional case competitions have been used nationally for many years to advance interprofessional education (IPE). The CLARION competition at the University of Minnesota serves as an exemplary model that has been adopted across the country. Such competitions afford teams of health professional students an experiential opportunity to apply knowledge and skills about teamwork acquired through didactic IPE experiences, as a co-curricular (i.e., experiences outside formal curricula) event incentivized by monetary prizes and university-wide recognition. Drawing inspiration from CLARION and…
This Lightning Talk will highlight a university-wide series of online interprofessional education (IPE) modules completed synchronously without direct involvement of faculty facilitators. 977 first-year students representing 26 educational programs participated in interprofessional groups of 3-4 in a self-directed manner using just learner guides. Multiple modalities facilitated engagement, including interprofessional socialization exercises, mini-lectures augmented with video vignettes, and novel illustrated and video case studies. Illustrated cases featured professionally rendered artwork…