Kimberly
Kascak,
MEd
Instructor
Office of Interprofessional Initiatives
Kimberly Kascak is an Instructor in the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives at the Medical University of South Carolina. Ms. Kascak is a co-founder of Pattison’s Academy, a non-profit public charter school specializing in children with severe disabilities. She is an author of the developing Pediatric Awareness and Sensory Motor Assessment. She focuses on academic innovation, online instructional design and interprofessional education. Ms. Kascak directs interprofessional courses required by students at the Medical University of South Carolina to teach concepts related to interprofessional education, teamwork and collaborative practice.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This Lightning Talk best addresses the theme of Evaluation, Assessment and the Use of Informatics in IPE.
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) offers students and faculty across six colleges many opportunities to engage in interprofessional education initiatives. Students are provided opportunities to participate in required interprofessional coursework, elective courses, Interprofessional Day events, case competitions, Research Day, shadowing experiences, simulation exercises, and many other activities. MUSC used an informatics solution to build a tracking system that improves…