Keynote: Preparing a Workforce for Interprofessional Collaborative Care

Presenter Information

Carol A. Aschenbrener, MD, Chief Medical Education Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges

Start Date

5-18-2012 4:30 PM

End Date

5-18-2012 5:30 PM

Description

Dr. Aschenbrener will share the vision, action agenda and progress of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), a partnership of six associations of schools of the health professions dedicated to assuring that the future health workforce is prepared for interprofessional collaborative practice.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will:

1. Identify the role of competency-based learning and assessment in creating a true continuum of physician education.

2. Describe the relationship between IPE initiatives and competency-based learning and assessment in the AAMC portfolio.

3. Identify key initiatives of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) intended to help leverage integration of meaningful IPE.

Comments

Presentation: 56 minutes

Carol A. Aschenbrener, M.D joined the AAMC in April 2004, after nearly 30 years as a medical school faculty member and administrator. After serving for two years as Vice President of the Division of Medical School Standards and Assessments and LCME Secretary, she assumed leadership of the Division of Medical Education. In January 2007, she was appointed to the new role of Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, and spent nearly five years focusing on the implementation of the AAMC’s strategic priorities and development of systems to align people and resources with those priorities. In November 2011, she assumed leadership of the newly defined Medical Education Cluster with the goal of developing and implementing a strategy to facilitate transformation of medical education toward a true continuum of formation grounded in the health needs of the public. She has extensive executive experience including nine years in various Dean’s Office positions at The University of Iowa College of Medicine and four years as Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. As Chancellor, she was responsible for four health colleges,SchoolofAllied Health, Graduate Program,UniversityHospital, and a cancer institute. Before joining AAMC, she spent seven years as a consultant to academic health centers, focusing on strategic planning, systems redesign, leadership development, and executive coaching. She has served on a variety of professional and civic boards and has held leadership positions in organized medicine at the state and national level, including terms as appointed member of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, Accreditation Committee for Continuing Medical Education, Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education and elected member of the Iowa Medical Society board, the AMA Council on Medical Education, Educational Commission on Foreign Medical Graduates and elected chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners. A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, she completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology at The University of Iowa. Her current professional interests include competency-based learning and assessment, interprofessional education, organizational culture, leadership development, and management of change.

Dr. Aschenbrener holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Clarke College in Dubuque,Iowa(1966) and a Master of Science in Neuroanatomy from The University of Iowa (1968). She received the M.D. degree from theUniversityofNorth Carolina(1971) and completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (1974).