Margaret Coates, MD
Resident Physician
UT Austin Dell Medical School
Margaret Coates was born and raised in Seattle, WA, completed her undergraduate and medical school training at Duke University, and plans to pursue a career as a dermatologist. She will complete a Transitional Year internship next year in Austin, TX before returning to North Carolina to complete her dermatology residency at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Background: All first-year medical students at Duke are required to participate in an Inter-professional Education (IPE) Experience. Students then return in their 3rd and 4th years of training. The Duke IPE Experience allows multiple pre-licensure professional programs, including MD, PA, DPT, BSN, and NP, to work together seeing patients in the acute care setting of the emergency department (ED), Monday-Thursday from 5-9 pm. The composition of the students varies each session due to size constrains and does not include all professions on any one session. We sought to understand the medical…