Kaz
Nelson,
MD
Associate Designated Institutional Official
University of Minnesota
Kaz J. Nelson, MD, is a Fellow of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and serves as Vice Chair for Education in the UMN Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Program Director of the Psychiatry Residency at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Nelson practices at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Dr. Nelson also serves in the position of Associate Designated Institutional Official with leadership responsibilities across residency and fellowship programs.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
An increasing complexity of medicine requires an interprofessional team approach. Countless studies have shown the merits of interprofessionalism, though relatively few have analyzed interprofessionalism through a gendered lens. Of those that have, some have found no difference between men and women as they relate to interprofessional skills/attitudes, while others have suggested that women view interprofessionalism more positively than men. No large studies were found comparing interprofessional skills, rather than attitudes, in women versus men. In this study, we use a direct clinical…