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Roberta Rusch, MPH
Associate Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

Roberta Rusch has primarily spent her career in the areas of women’s health, medical education, public health, and interprofessional education. Her graduate education included a Master in Public Health, concentrating in Maternal Child Health. Experiences leading women’s health medical education nationally brought her to the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on medical school third-year clerkship education, faculty development, and an innovative medical school curriculum transformation. Currently, she is the Associate Director for the UW CIPE leading the development/delivery of four interactive Interprofessional Competency Modules based on the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Competencies which nine different health/social professional programs participate.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Building a Unique Badger and Path of Distinction Program in Interprofessional Practice and Education
Learning Objectives 1. Highlight the importance and the impacts of IPE Badges and Path of Distinction on developing collaborative practice-ready future practitioners. 2. Explore a framework for creating requirements for an IPE Path of Distinction that works across different health science programs. According to the World Health Organization (2010), students in health/social professional programs are required to be collaborative practice-ready at the time of graduation as they are required to work collaboratively with other members of interprofessional teams in the workplace. To help health/…
Building an Interprofessional Charter to Enhance the University-wide Collaboration in Integrating Interprofessional Practice and Education
Learning Objectives - by the end of the seminar, participants will be able to: Highlight the complex challenges of collaborating across health science programs within a large academic institution. Identify and discuss enablers and barriers that impact the integration and sustainability of interprofessional practice and education (IPE) program. Apply the core principles and concepts of an interprofessional charter in developing, enhancing, and/or integrating their IPE programs. Collaboration is at the heart of successful interprofessional education and practice (IPE). Students who are…
The Case of the Missing Patient: Using a Virtual Role-Play Scenario to Teach Interprofessional Communication Skills
In healthcare communication, we often focus on the one-on-one relationships between patients and clinicians. Healthcare, however, is a team endeavor with many players and relationships. Clinical and social healthcare professionals learn their crafts in separate programs with sometimes very different training methods and philosophies. However, there is more overlap than differences when it comes to communication skills. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we created innovative learning experiences for students in Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and Social Work to work together while…