Amy
Weinstein,
MD, MPH
Clerkship Director
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Amy Weinstein is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a practicing General Internist Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. She serves as the Clerkship Director for the BIDMC Core I Medicine Clerkship and as the Faculty Director of Education for the Crimson Care Collaborative, a student-faculty practice network of 7 HMS-affiliated primary care practices through which she directs interprofessional education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) improves patient outcomes and reduces healthcare costs. The Crimson Care Collaborative (CCC) is an interprofessional student-faculty collaborative of 7 clinics throughout Boston. Our objective was to assess change in CCC students’ IPC skills after participation in a novel interprofessional escape room.
Methods: We obtained a license agreement from the University of Minnesota to run a pilot session of their beginner Interprofessional Health Care Escape Room (Friedrich et al. 2018). Students received a brief overview of interprofessional…