Laurel
Witt,
MD, MPhil
Assistant Professor
University of Kansas Medical Center School of Medicine
Laurel Witt received her doctor of medicine degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Oregon Health and Sciences University. Dr. Witt served as Director of the KU Family Medicine Interprofessional Teaching Clinic from 2017 to 2019. She has been serving as the Director of the Undergraduate Medical Education Division for the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at KU's Kansas City campus since 2019.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
As per accreditation mandates for many professions, interprofessional education (IPE) has become an important effort for many institutions. Over the past few years, greater attention has been placed on interprofessional learning in practice (LIP) to effectively equip health profession students with the collaborative skills needed to achieve the Quadruple Aim. The Interprofessional Teaching Clinic (IPTC) is one such long-standing LIP opportunity that has afforded students from seven different health professions to work with patients in a Family Medicine clinic at The University of Kansas…