Cynthia
Carroll,
MA, LPC, CLSSGB, CPPS, PNAP
University of North Texas Health Science Center
TX,
United States
Cynthia Carroll is the Director for UNT Health Science Center’s (UNTHSC) Department of Interprofessional Education and Practice and an adjunct instructor in Medical Education. Cynthia has a Master’s degree in clinical/counseling psychology. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a TeamSTEPPS® Master Trainer, a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and Certified Professional in Patient Safety, professional member with the Psychology Academy of NAP and a Distinguished Fellow with the Texas IPE Consortium. Cynthia’s experience includes in-patient addiction rehabilitation, emergency departments behavioral health, and education. Cynthia oversees IPE for students, faculty, clinicians, and professionals across multiple institutions.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
This workshop, presented by the Texas IPE Consortium, equips faculty with strategies to facilitate rapidly forming learner teams in IPE settings. Drawing from the Rapid Teaming and IPE Facilitator Certificate courses, participants will gain practical tools to enhance team dynamics, communication, and collaboration in both didactic and experiential learning environments.
This oral presentation will allow for dialogue surrounding the premise of competence as an asymptote, allowing presenters and participants to safely share their points of view with regard to the need for a shift from strictly competency-based interprofessional education to the notion of developing reflective learners as a priority.
When people (students, faculty, professionals, etc.) think of IPE, what often first comes to mind are the basic ideas and excitement for the core competency of Roles and Responsibilities. In course evaluations from students regarding IPE the question often sounds like, "Can you just tell me what everyone can do?" And the disappointment often sounds like, "I didn't feel like I actually learned about other professions’ roles." Despite educators’ great ideas and intentions, methods of teaching toward this competency often leave learners in a negative state - feeling left out, undervalued, overly generalized, erroneously stereotyped, etc. But there is hope! This session offers participants the ability to reach a shared mental model regarding what is possible for competency in Roles and Responsibilities. The presenters will discuss the depth and breadth of the subject to be mastered, the history of professional roles, an atypical series of thought bursts to alter mind-set, and the methods anyone can use to establish a healthy foundation for lifelong learning in Roles and Responsibilities.