Amanda
Goumas,
MPH
Coordinator, IPE Office
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
Amanda Goumas, MPH, is the coordinator for the Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans. She has a Master’s in Public Health in community health and behavioral sciences from Tulane University. Her interests include education around systemic racism as a root cause of health inequities.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Tools for measuring outcomes of interprofessional education (IPE) have been criticized as having weak evidence for validity. The purpose of this study was to compare previous validity evidence for three commonly used self-report tools with data from 684 learners at four U.S. universities to better understand how these measures perform across contexts and learner levels. The research team consisted of faculty representing athletic training, dentistry, dental hygiene, dietetics, medicine, nursing, physical therapy, and public health, who came together to learn about, from, and with each other…