Sadie
Trammell Velasquez,
MD
Associate Professor
University of Texas Health San Antonio
My name is Sadie Trammell Velasquez, MD, and I am an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health San Antonio. As co-director of the longitudinal clinical skills course at the University of Texas Health San Antonio, I have collaborated with the schools of nursing and dentistry to successfully implement Interprofessional Education (IPE) into the curriculum. I was awarded the Linking Interprofessional Network Collaboration (LINC) Seed Grant in 2019 and 2020 as the Principal Investigator, presenting the first grant results at the University of Texas Shine Conference in 2020 and NEXUS 2020. The second grant was used to develop a longitudinal IPE activity between the schools of medicine and dentistry to be formally embedded into both schools' curriculum. A member of the LINC Didactic IPE Initiative, I am an active participant in increasing IPE in a strategic manner at UT Health San Antonio. I maintain an active clinical service on teaching and non-teaching inpatient Medicine services and in Obesity Medicine.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Effective interprofessional education (IPE) is an opportunity to connect education to new models of healthcare. Increasing the scope of practice of medicine/dentistry, while increasing interactions, are proposed strategies to improve patients’ access and quality of care. In this Lightning Talk, we will describe the longitudinal expansion of preclinical IPE spanning the classroom/clinical learning environment in the clinical skills course and discuss the results from the first year of this expansion. The longitudinal activity courses two years in the medical/dental schools’ curriculum. In year…