Lora
Wichser,
MD
Program Director
University of Minnesota
Lora Wichser is Assistant Professor and Deputy Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She works to improve patient care on an adult inpatient psychosis unit in Minneapolis. She works to demolish the systems that uphold institutional racism, especially in medical education and academic institutions.
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…
Feedback is an important aspect of clinical medical education. To be effective and actionable, feedback should be specific,(1,2) although several studies have shown that in practice this is often not accomplished.(3-5) In addition to physician feedback, medical learners are likely interested in(6) and can benefit from(7) interprofessional feedback. While two recent studies have analyzed interprofessional feedback given to medical students, they did not do so in the context of 3rd and 4th year clinical rotations.(8,9) The aim of the present study was to evaluate the quality of written…