Devin
Nickol, MD
University of Nebraska
Dr. Devin Nickol is founding Co-editor in Chief of the Journal of Interprofessional
Education & Practice. He is a practicing general internist and associate professor of Internal
Medicine and Associate Dean for Interprofessional Education at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He lectures and directs courses within UNMC’s College of Medicine, and travels to western Nebraska each summer to teach Field Epidemiology to undergraduate science majors at University of Nebraska’s Cedar Point Biological Station.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Although interprofessional education (IPE) continues to gain momentum in health professions’ classroom and simulated environments, interprofessional values taught at undergraduate and pre-professional levels are often lost once learners enter the clinical environment. Clinical learning shapes impressions about, attitudes toward, experience with, and acquisition of competencies necessary for interprofessional collaborative practice. It is where knowledge, thinking, and learning comes together and becomes situated for many learners, oftentimes indelibly imprinting future practice. Billet argued…