Lessons Learned in Health Professions Education from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Workshop

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, health professionals adapted, innovated, and accelerated in order to meet the needs of students, patients, and the community. To examine and learn from these experiences, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education convened a series of workshops, the first of which was a one-day virtual workshop on December 3, 2020.

The first workshop explored lessons learned in the grand challenges facing health professions education (HPE) stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and how those positive and negative experiences might inform development of sustainable improvements in the value, effectiveness, and impact of HPE. Educators, students, administrators, and health professionals shared ideas, stories, and data in an effort to discuss the future of HPE by learning from past experiences. Topics included: evaluation of online education; innovations in interprofessional education and learning opportunities within the social determinants of health and mental health; effects on preclinical and clinical education; regulatory and accreditation changes affecting HPE; and stress and workload on students and faculty. This publication summarizes the presentations and panel discussions from the workshop.

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84 pages · 6 x 9 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-68254-1
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-68267-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26210

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Mary Jo Bondy

Mary Jo Bondy DHEd, MHS, PA-C graduated from the Duke University PA Program in 1993 and was the Duke PA Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 2013. Prior to becoming a PA, Dr. Bondy graduated from Marquette University and was a medical technologist.
After graduating from Duke’s PA program, Dr. Bondy practiced as a PA in Orthopedic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center for two years prior to joining Wilmington (NC) Health Associates and practicing in Internal Medicine. She subsequently joined Forstner Family Practice and Urgent Care where she practiced for two years. She returned to Duke in January 2000 to practice in the Emergency Department; during that time, she also served as a Regional Clinical Coordinator for the Duke PA Program. In the latter role, she recruited and developed potential PA students and preceptors, and served as a liaison to coastal medical and educational communities. After three years, she moved to Washington DC and became a Senior PA and Assistant Clinical Professor at George Washington University in the Emergency Department and also at the Bethesda Naval Emergency Department. During that period, she began her work with Anne Arundel Community College PA Program and became PA Program Director in 2007. In 2014, Dr. Bondy accepted a position as Director of Graduate Programs at the University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore.
Dr. Bondy earned the Doctor of Health Education degree from AT Still University in May 2011. She is active in the Physician Assistant Education Association, and serves on their Government Relations Committee. In the Maryland Academy of Physician Assistants, she has been Public Relations chair and is currently a member of the Legislative Committee.

Darrin D'Agostino

Darrin D'Agostino, D.O., M.P.H., M.B.A., is the Senior Vice President of Certification, Measurement, Accreditation and Research at the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She is responsible for certification of individual registered nurses and advanced practice registered nurses; and development of certification examinations. She is responsible for the accreditation of organizations that provide continuing nursing education and interprofessional continuing education; and for accreditation of residency and fellowship programs for nurses. She also directs the Institute for Credentialing Research, analyzing outcomes related to credentialing. She holds a baccalaureate in nursing with distinction from the University of Virginia, a masters of science in advanced clinical nursing and a doctorate in nursing from George Mason University. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Distinguished Scholar & Fellow in the National Academies of Practice.

James W. Buehler

James W. Buehler, M.D., is a Clinical Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy and an affiliate of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative.
Prior to joining the Drexel faculty in 2013, Dr. Buehler had over two decades of government public health service at the federal Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and Georgia’s state health department, where his work spanned general field epidemiology, maternal and child health, infectious diseases (particularly HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis), population health surveillance, public health ethics, informatics, and emergency preparedness and response.
During the final 18 months of Mayor Michael Nutter’s administration, Drexel granted Dr. Buehler a leave-of-absence to serve as Philadelphia’s health commissioner, where he directed the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. In that capacity, he was responsible for a broad spectrum of public health and safety-net clinical services and for leading the health department’s response to the threat of Ebola virus in 2014-15 and its preparations for the Pope’s visit to Philadelphia in 2015.
In addition to his position at Drexel, Dr. Buehler was formerly a research professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
His research interests focus on advancing public health systems, including the interface between public health and health care services.
He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, the School of Medicine of the University of California at San Francisco, and CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service program; and he is board-certified in Pediatrics and General Preventive Medicine.

Susan Choi

Susan Choi, Ph.D., is the senior director of population health at the Health Care Improvement Foundation. Since joining HCIF in 2012, Dr. Choi has directed learning collaboratives addressing a variety of topics, including health literacy, palliative care, and early identification management of hypertension and diabetes. She is currently responsible for the facilitation of two community health improvement collaboratives, Montgomery County Hospital Partnership and Collaborative Opportunities to Advance Community Health (COACH), that engage health systems in Southeastern Pennsylvania to address pressing community health needs.
Dr. Choi previously worked as a Consultant and Research Associate for the Institute for Community Health and the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In these roles, she conducted evaluations of a variety of health promotion programs and led several quality initiatives focused on improving health equity, language services, and HIV care. Susan earned her BA in Psychology and PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University.

David B. Daniel

David B. Daniel, PhD, is currently a professor of Psychology at James Madison University and an award-winning teacher with over 25 years of classroom experience. A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, David has been honored numerous times for his teaching and translational efforts. In additional to earning many university/college level teaching awards, his national honors include the Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s Teaching Excellence Award, the Transforming Education through Neuroscience Award and being recognized as one of the top 1% of educational researchers influencing public debate in the US. He was recently appointed to a select panel of the National Academy of Sciences to update and extend the influential NRC report How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School and featured in the Princeton Review’s 300 Best Professors.
Dr. Daniel’s dedication to facilitating student learning extends from higher education contexts to the K-12 classroom and across a wide variety of disciplines. He regularly consults with schools, districts, teaching and learning centers, publishers, education-oriented companies, policy-makers and non-profit foundations on the development of high-impact pedagogy, including the targeted use of appropriate technologies.
Dr. Daniel’s scholarship and related activities focus on translating findings from the Science of Learning and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to useable knowledge, particularly for educational practice, policy, and student learning. He works to infuse the design of pedagogy and systems, including digital tools, with learning science and stake-holder usability to maximize learning impact and engagement.

Emilia Iwu

Emilia Iwu, Ph.D., R.N., APNC, FWACN, completed her basic nursing and midwifery education in Nigeria. She obtained a BA Degree in School Health Services from Rowan University of New Jersey; BS, MS and Ph.D. in Nursing from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Before joining University of Maryland’s Institute of Human Virology and School of Nursing in 2006 as Technical Advisor for the Presidential
Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) grant in Nigeria, she worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner in Infectious Diseases Clinic at Cooper Hospital University Medical Center and Healthcare for the Homeless Program, both in Camden, New Jersey. Her key interests have been capacity development of nurses and community health workers through education and practice. As Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Dr. Iwu helped design a postmaster’s global health certificate program that involves clinical and research rotations for US-based nursing students in Nigeria and other resource-constrained countries. She is an alumnus of Robert Wood Johnson and Jonas Foundation Faculty/Leadership programs. As Clinical Faculty at Rutgers University, School of Nursing Newark since 2014, she continued her global HIV work in Nigeria. Her research interests include HIV nursing; patient access and retention; and nursing roles in changing health care delivery systems especially in resource limited settings.

Pinar Keskinocak

Pinar Keskinocak, Ph.D., is the William W. George Chair and Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and Director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the lead faculty advisor for the MS Health Systems at Georgia Tech and also leads the Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Professional Education certificate program. Previously, she has served as the College of Engineering ADVANCE Professor and interim associate dean for faculty development and scholarship.
Dr. Keskinocak’s research focuses on the applications of quantitative methods and analytics to have a positive impact in society, particularly in healthcare and humanitarian systems. Her recent work has addressed a broad range of topics such as infectious disease modeling (including pandemic flu, Covid19, malaria, Guinea worm, polio), evaluating intervention strategies, and resource allocation; catch-up scheduling for vaccinations; decision-support for organ transplant; hospital operations management; and disaster preparedness and response. She has worked on projects with a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations, and healthcare providers, including American Red Cross, CARE, Carter Center, CDC, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory Healthcare, Georgia Department of Public Health, Grady Hospital, and Task Force for Global Health.
Dr. Keskinocak is the president-elect of INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences), and has served in various other roles within the society over the years, including INFORMS Secretary, INFORMS Vice President for Membership and Professional Recognition, President of the Women on OR/MS Forum, President of the Public Sector OR Section, and Department Editor for Operations Research. She is an INFORMS Fellow.

Kimberly D. Lomis

Kimberly D. Lomis, M.D., is Vice President for Undergraduate Medical Education Innovations at the American Medical Association. In that capacity, she guides the Accelerating Change in Medical Education (ACE) consortium of 37 medical schools, impacting approximately 25,000 medical students across the United States. Dr. Lomis is invested in competency-based medical education. She previously served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where she guided a major revision of the medical school curriculum that included implementation of a comprehensive competency-based assessment program. Dr. Lomis also served as director of the national pilot of the Association of American Medical Colleges Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency. Dr. Lomis trained in general surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center from 1992-1997 and practiced until 2012. She retains appointment at Vanderbilt as adjunct Professor of Surgery and of Medical Education & Administration.

Valerie Williams

Valerie Williams, PhD, M.P.A., is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). In this role she has responsibility for campus-wide academic affairs, academic integrity and faculty development issues. The Office of VP Academic Affairs and Faculty Development includes Academic Affairs, Admissions and Records, Academic Technology, Faculty Development and Interdisciplinary Programs, and the Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library.
A year after joining the OUHSC College of Medicine faculty in 1989 Dr. Williams created the Health Sciences Center Faculty Leadership Program, an interprofessional faculty development and mentoring program. Following nomination, faculty participants representing the six health professions colleges and interdisciplinary graduate college participate in an 11-month program focused on the teaching and research mission and leadership knowledge and skill development. The program is sponsored by the OUHSC Deans and Provost. As program director Dr. Williams has served as a mentor or coach for over 350 OUHSC faculty and over 500 faculty participating in summer institute or nationally sponsored faculty development programs.
The Office of Academic Affairs at the OU Health Sciences Center includes academic program and academic policy oversight. The office hosts the faculty led Academic Program Council, provides admissions data and manages an on campus online application. Student data and reporting is handled through the Office of Institutional Research, and student records are overseen by the HSC Registrar. In addition, Dr. Williams serves as an adviser to the Student Government Association Academic Integrity Council.

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