Sarah
Liebkemann,
RDH, MS
Registered Dental Hygienist
UNC Chapel Hill
Sarah Liebkemann recently received her Master of Science in Dental Hygiene Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was an inaugural member of the Interprofessional Education and Practice Distinguished Scholars. She graduated from the UNC baccalaureate dental hygiene program in 2019 as the first student to earn highest honors and distinction. Sarah has served in a variety of leadership roles in organizations relating to interprofessional education. She has received a number of awards, including the Sigma Phi Alpha Excellence in Journalism Award for her research exploring the use of Interactive Virtual Games in dental hygiene curriculum.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic drastically expanded reliance on virtual care in clinical practice, as it offers increased flexibility and expanded access to care, particularly for patients with complex medical needs who are disproportionately impacted by non-medical drivers of health. Hotspotting programs partner health professions students with patients identified as “high utilizers” of health care resources in order to address social barriers to health, improve access to primary care, and reduce patient emergency department overutilization. Telehealth offers a solution to common social…
The COVID-19 pandemic led health systems to increasingly rely on telehealth for patient care. Despite rapidly changing clinical and regulatory environments, most healthcare providers and students were not equipped with formal training in telehealth-specific skills. With support from the American Medical Association, we convened an interprofessional team of clinicians and student leaders from UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke to develop a virtual interprofessional telehealth curriculum. The curriculum consisted of five, 90-minute, online interactive course sessions, including an introduction to…
Background: Collaborative Online Learning (COL) has been designated by the Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative as an interprofessional learning modality that utilizes information and communication technology to facilitate collaboration between students from different health programs or with practitioners that represent different professions. Innovative approaches to COL have been investigated to address logistical challenges that limit the implementation of interprofessional education. Using a combination of an unfolding case study and virtual reality simulation may solve these…