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Join our presenters, Amy Blue, PhD, Benjamin Chesluk, PhD, and Lisa Conforti, MPH, as they report their findings from a multi-methods study, suppported by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examining assessment and evaluation practices in interprofessional education.  

Learning objectives for webinar participants are:

• Examine methods and tools to assess learner and team interprofessional collaborative competencies
• Examine IPE program evaluation approaches
• Discuss learner assessment and program evaluation needs in IPE

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This webinar will be recorded and will be available on National Center's Resource Exchange following the event.

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About the presenters

Amy Blue, PhD, is the Associate Vice President for Interprofessional Education, Health Sciences and the Associate Dean for Educational Affairs in the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida. She holds a doctorate in Medical Anthropology from Case Western Reserve University and completed a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) post-doctoral fellowship in Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky.  Dr. Blue has been engaged in health professions education for 20 years, and in 2007, became the founding director of the interprofessional education program at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she served as the Assistant Provost for Education.  Dr. Blue has co-authored several publications regarding medical and interprofessional education, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Interprofessional Care.  Dr. Blue was a founding member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC), and served as a member of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel that wrote the Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Report in 2011. 

Benjamin Chesluk, PhD, received his doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He currently works at the American Board of Internal Medicine, where he has manages and carries out a wide range of qualitative and mixed-methods research and development projects, all aimed at helping physicians improve both the quality of their work and the systems within which they practice. This work includes the development and launch of TEAM (Teamwork Effectiveness Assessment Module), a new online tool for physicians to gather feedback from their interprofessional teammates in order to improve work more effectively as part of a patient-care team. Before coming to the ABIM, he spent several years at Design Science, a design research firm, where he led numerous ethnographic research projects aimed at improving and innovating medical devices and health care delivery, from surgical devices to patient monitors and EMR systems; these projects took him into operating rooms, ICUs, and clinics around the world. Benjamin Chesluk is also the author of Money Jungle (2007), an anthropological study of the redevelopment of New York City’s Times Square, published by Rutgers University Press.

Lisa Conforti, MPH, is a Research Associate for Academic Programs at the American Board of Internal Medicine where she has worked since 2004.  Before coming to ABIM, Ms. Conforti earned her Master of Public Health degree from Tulane University.  Prior to graduate studies, Ms. Conforti served as a volunteer for the United States Peace Corps in southeastern Bolivia, where she worked with women and children to improve health.  Her undergraduate degree in Anthropology was received from the University of Colorado Boulder.