Kimberly
Somers,
PT, DPT
Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions
AZ,
United States
Dr. Kimberly Somers is currently serving as the Director of Clinical Education for Creighton University’s Program of Physical Therapy in Phoenix, Arizona. She has a passion for educational research specific to students’ professional formation of habits of heart and moral agency, clinical education, and interprofessional education. She currently serves as the Director of Assessment for Creighton University’s Center for Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research and engages IPE to help students uncover the complexities and power of interprofessional collaboration and teamwork to prepare them to best advocate for their patients, themselves, and the health of society.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
Food insecurity among healthcare students impacts mental health, educational outcomes, and interprofessional socialization. This presentation explores sustainable food banks as a potential solution, using Maslow’s hierarchy and Gruppen’s learning environment framework to assess the effects on food security, loneliness, and interprofessional learning environments to promote student well-being and success.
This presentation will reveal the national landscape of interprofessional education (IPE) curricula and assessment practices. It will identify key trends, challenges, and gaps, providing valuable insights for institutions seeking to enhance IPE programs and develop more standardized, evidence-based approaches to IPE curriculum and assessment.
This workshop uses the moral commons framework along with application of a Dialogic Engagement Model as a structure for interprofessional team clinical reasoning analysis of current complex ethical dilemmas. Group discussion will include identification of key strategies to support teamwork, such as relational coordination, and opportunities for future research.