Kimberly
Kascak, MEd
Medical University of South Carolina
Kimberly Kascak is an Instructor in the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives at the Medical University of South Carolina. Ms. Kascak is a co-founder of Pattison’s Academy, a non-profit public charter school specializing in children with severe disabilities. She is an author of the developing Pediatric Awareness and Sensory Motor Assessment. She focuses on academic innovation, online instructional design and interprofessional education. She directs interprofessional courses required by first year students at the Medical University of South Carolina to teach concepts related to interprofessional education and teamwork.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
2:00 pm, September 4, 2013. A conversation with an interprofessional (IP) health care team provided a wake-up call to the Office of Interprofessional Initiatives at the Medical University of South Carolina. While our students entered practice settings well-prepared in their content knowledge and skills, they lacked skills in working in an IP team, reflecting the fact that there was no continuum of learning shared between the hospital and the university. Plans were immediately put in motion to give students opportunity to become strong IP team players. TeamSTEPPS�(R) was selected as the…