Kathleen
Waite,
MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Duke University
Dr. Kathleen Waite is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. She obtained her medical degree from Duke University and Internal Medicine residency at Duke. She is actively involved in medical student education. Currently she is the co-medical director for the Interprofessional Education Clinic that brings together nursing, medical, physician assistant, physical therapy, and pharmacy faculty and students to care for patients in the urgent care setting. She is also course director for the Introduction to Outpatient General Internal Medicine at Duke and teaches in the Duke Capstone course.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
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…
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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…