Alicia
Williams, MA, CSAC
East Tennessee State University
Alicia Williams, MA, CSAC is the social health specialist in a fully-integrated primary care family medicine residency clinic for Quillen College of Medicine. She is the Director of Faculty Development for Interprofessional Education and Research and serves on the IPE Strategy and Innovation Board at East Tennessee State University. Her work history includes 20 years of service in community mental health treating mental health and substance abuse disorders prior to her work at ETSU. Ms. Williams received both her BS and MA in Psychology at ETSU. She is a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor in the State of Virginia.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The lack of interprofessional training for providers entering the healthcare system was identified as a major omission in the preparation of healthcare workers in the early 2000's. Subsequently, the World Health Organization identified a need for the development of Interprofessional education (IPE) programs to adequately prepare providers to work in teams. Since then, the pedagogy and evidence base for IPE has grown. However, there has been little focus on preparing faculty to teach from an interprofessional model. Ratka et al. conducted a literature review of articles appearing in several…
ETSU implemented the first year of a 2-year longitudinal IPE experience within the five colleges of the ETSU Academic Health Sciences Center (AHSC). The four educational competencies of IPEC were used to create experience threads. Each semester two experience threads are covered; one consists of a simulation experience to practice the foundational principles in a safe environment, and the other a field experience to implement the foundational principle in a clinical setting. The majority of the content for experience threads and simulation experiences were implemented for three cohorts of…