Gail
Jensen, PhD, PT, FAPTA, FNAP
Creighton University
Dr. Jensen is Dean of the Graduate School and University College, Vice Provost for Learning and Assessment, Professor of Physical Therapy, and Faculty Associate, Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Creighton University. She is founding Director of Creighton’s Office of Interprofessional Scholarship, Service and Education. Dr Jensen is known for scholarly contributions related to expert practice, clinical reasoning, professional ethics, and interprofessional education. She currently serves as incoming Chair of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative.
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…