Lark
Ford,
PhD, MA, MSN, RN
Associate Professor/Clinical
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Lark A. Ford joined the nursing faculty at UT Health San Antonio in fall 2006. She is a supporter of interprofessional education. Since 2009, Lark worked with her interprofessional colleagues on a research project entitled RESPECT: Realizing Enhanced Student Inter-Professional Education through Clinical Teamwork. This program was designed for medical, dental, dental hygiene and nursing students to work in interprofessional teams while serving an underserved community in San Antonio, Texas. Since fall 2018, Lark has represented the School of Nursing on the Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration Faculty Council, a core component of the institution's Quality Enhancement Plan.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio emphasizes interprofessional education (IPE) among our strategic educational priorities. This is exemplified by our Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) for institutional accreditation, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC) - created to cultivate IPE knowledge and skills of faculty, students, and staff and to integrate IPE activities into programs’ curricula with increasing opportunities for student IPE experiences.
Members of the LINC Faculty Council (the Council), one from each school (dentistry, graduate…
BACKGROUND: COVID-19-associated social distancing practices necessitated significantly altering a previously planned large-scale interprofessional education (IPE) activity for approximately 1000 students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. As a result, we developed and piloted an innovative, self-directed online learning experience emphasizing student engagement.
DESIGN: We partnered with the family of a child in the local community with complex health needs to develop two unique case studies telling their story while emphasizing the value of teamwork on…
The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), is a requirement for institutional accreditation designed to advance interprofessional education (IPE) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio). All five schools (dentistry, graduate biomedical sciences, health professions, medicine, and nursing) are actively engaged in achieving QEP goals: to integrate IPE activities into programs’ curricula and to cultivate IPE knowledge and skills in faculty, staff, and students. UT Health San Antonio has…