Megan
Adelman,
PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, CDE
Clinical Assistant Professor
West Virginia University School of Pharmacy
Dr. Megan Adelman, BCPS, BCGP, CDE is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy and a Family Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at the Department of Family Medicine at WVUMedicine. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from the Northeast Ohio Medical University and completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at the Carolinas Medical Center and a PGY2 in Geriatrics at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC. Dr. Adelman has worked to expand pharmacy services, helping to implement multiple interdisciplinary clinics. Her research interests include gaming in education, dementia, deprescribing, and rural population health management._x000D_
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Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background and Objective: Use of gaming has been shown to have a positive impact on higher education; however, data on the use of gaming activities in interprofessional health sciences education is lacking. The objective of this study was to describe the development and implementation of an interdisciplinary gaming activity to enhance learning and develop teamwork skills. Methods: Faculty members created an innovative, educational game, which focused on two “gaming” strategies. The game was broken down into four rounds. The first three rounds, focused on information gathering, were played…