Erin Leiman, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Dr. Erin Leiman is an Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from Vanderbilt University Medical School and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is involved with graduate and undergraduate medical education, especially simulation and interprofessional development. She is also an Assistant Director for the Duke Interprofessional Education and Care Center and also serves as the co-medical director of the Interprofessional Education Clinic that brings together pre-licensure students to care for patients in the urgent care setting.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

The COVID-19 pandemic brought impromptu consequences for all aspects of academic healthcare, including interprofessional (IP) collaborative practice. At Duke Health, leadership across the campus provided support to establish a Center for Interprofessional Education and Care (IPEC). A leadership team composed of representatives from medicine, nursing, PA, and PT programs, was hired in January 2020 to launch the Center and conduct a strategic planning process. This planned inaugural process included review of the current state in each program and a group analysis of strengths, weaknesses,…
Background: All first-year medical students at Duke are required to participate in an Inter-professional Education (IPE) Experience. Students then return in their 3rd and 4th years of training. The Duke IPE Experience allows multiple pre-licensure professional programs, including MD, PA, DPT, BSN, and NP, to work together seeing patients in the acute care setting of the emergency department (ED), Monday-Thursday from 5-9 pm. The composition of the students varies each session due to size constrains and does not include all professions on any one session. We sought to understand the medical…
Discuss selected theme(s): It is vitally important for patients to have a voice in their care and share their opinions. We sought to understand the patient experience of watching and directly participating in prelicensure interprofessional medical training and if they viewed this participation as beneficial in their care or conversely, as discomfiting.   Detail how the Lightning Talk represents an interprofessional initiative: The Duke Interprofessional Education (IPE) Experience allows multiple pre-licensure professional programs, including MD, PA, DPT, BSN, and NP, to work together…
Background: The Duke Interprofessional Education (IPE) Experience allows multiple pre-licensure professional programs, including MD, PA, DPT, BSN, and NP, to provide team based care to patients in the emergency department (ED) during weekday evenings. All care is provided with direct MD faculty supervision. Registered nurse (RN) faculty help facilitate patient care, supervise their program’s students, and educate all students in clinic (not just nursing students). Like all clinical faculty that participate in this experience, this position is voluntary but compensated. The RNs are current ED…