Nicole
Trupiano,
MD Candidate
Co-Chair
Student Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan
Nicole (Nikki) Trupiano graduated with a BS in Business Administration in 2018 from UNC-Chapel Hill. She spent a year working as a case manager on an interprofessional team at a primary care office in North Carolina. She is now in her third year of medical school at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research and educational interests include IPE, medical consulting, medical education, and dermatology. She is the current co-chair of the Interprofessional Student Advisory Committee for all of the health science programs at the University of Michigan.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Learning Objectives: The learner will...
Understand details of a specific model for implementation of a patient advisor-centered framework for student IPE learning and evaluation
Evaluate the value-added of authentic patient-advisor engagement in IPE learning for students, academic institutions and patients as well as potential barriers
Apply this model of patient engagement in IPE to individual systems and settings and leave the session with a beginning plan of next steps for application of this model in their setting/community
Seminar description
Existing literature describing IPE…
Background: The IPE Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is a student-run committee that serves as a collaborative community for all the health professional schools and officially recognized interprofessional education (IPE) organizations at the University of Michigan. For the 2020-2021 academic year, the SAC co-chairs determined there was a need to improve the IPE experience for students across the health professional schools, increase engagement with interprofessional education, and improve communication among interprofessionals. The aims of the project were to identify structure-based…
Background Previous IPE interventions have been limited to one-time/short-term experiences due to the feasibility of planning and cost-effectiveness. Few reports on introductory experiential learning exist leaving questions on the best format and outcome measures; hence, LIFE was developed. LIFE is a virtual longitudinal experiential approach to prepare early learners outside of the classroom with a foundation of the socioecological model(SEM) and social determinants of health(SDH). Learners collaboratively explored the impact of the patient/family’s interface with the health-system and…