Plenaries
An Opening Session You Won’t Want to Miss This has been an incredible year for advances in interprofessional practice and education. Three major reports were published in the first four months of 2019, each addressing cornerstones of quality interprofessional education and practice: accreditation, interprofessional clinical learning environments and education-practice integration. These reports represent the movement into action of conversations that started, in part, with Conversation Cafes…
Sunday, August 18, 2019, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Why are we giving the Clinical Learning Environment (CLE) center stage at the 2019 Nexus Summit?  Isn’t the CLE “just” where we precept students and prepare them for practice?  Yes, and also, think bigger, much bigger. The CLE is the critical intersection between the current and future workforce in healthcare. It is where new generations and likely new professions will envision and craft new ways of delivering health care while mentoring and influencing each other.  We need to think bigger…
Monday, August 19, 2019, 8:00 am - 10:00 am
The movement to pay attention to the social determinants of health (SDOH) is strong in health care, and the SDOH are now considered core to health and health care. These wide-ranging drivers that have implications for interprofessional clinical learning environments include: reducing readmissions to hospitals, optimal team composition to address underlying causes of disease, cost savings, value-added care, payment and performance metrics, innovative team-based delivery processes, and social…
Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 8:00 am - 9:30 am
The Nexus Summit will close with the annual Awards Celebration & Luncheon from 12:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, August 20! Celebrate the winners of the George E. Thibault, MD Nexus Award, listen to the winning CLE Innovation Challenge solutions, hear reflections on the meeting from the Patient and Family Panel, and see which student poster is selected for the Interprofessional Student Achievement Award!   2018 George E. Thibault, MD Nexus Awards Winner: Florida International…
Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 12:45 pm - 2:45 pm