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President’s Grant
2016
Graduate Medical Education Outcomes and Metrics
National Academy of Sciences
This award supports the Outcomes and Metrics of Graduate Medical Education workshop. The workshop will bring together stakeholders to discuss issues and generate ideas for developing measures and collecting outcome data on graduate medical education. Following the workshop, the National Academy of Medicine will publish a summary of the proceedings.
Principal Investigator: Sharyl Nass, Ph.D. serves as Director of the Board on Health Care Services and Director of the National Cancer Policy Forum at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The National Academies provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, technology, and medicine. To enable the best possible care for all patients, the Board undertakes scholarly analysis of the organization, financing, effectiveness, workforce, and delivery of health care, with emphasis on quality, cost, and accessibility. The Cancer Forum examines policy issues pertaining to the entire continuum of cancer research and care. For nearly 2 decades, Dr. Nass has worked on a broad range of health and science policy topics that includes the quality and safety of health care and clinical trials, developing technologies for precision medicine, and strategies for large-scale biomedical science. She has a Ph.D. in cell biology from Georgetown University and undertook postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. She also holds a BS and an MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been the recipient of the Cecil Medal for Excellence in Health Policy Research, a Distinguished Service Award from the National Academies, and the Institute of Medicine staff team achievement award (as team leader).
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Board Grant
2010
Campus-wide IPE
University of Colorado School of Medicine
This project will develop a longitudinal, interprofessional and team building curriculum to integrate the pre-clinical and clinical training for all health professions students at the UCD Anschutz Medical Campus. The curriculum establishes, teaches, and evaluates campus-wide student competencies in teamwork, collaborative interprofessional practice, quality and safety.
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Board Grant
2010
ITEACH (Integrating Transdisciplinary Education at Cornell Hunter Phase I)
Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing/Weill Cornell Medical College
This program supports a planning initiative that uses innovative pedagogies such as a high fidelity simulation and virtual reality for interprofessional health students to learn collaborative communication and team work skills essential to patient safely outcomes.
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Board Grant
2009
Interdisciplinary Clinical Collaboraive Practice Project
Texas Woman’s University
This project established an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional program to train both medical and nursing students to use targeted TeamSTEPPS, a system aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and other teamwork skills among healthcare professionals.
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Board Grant
2009
Hands on Quality Improvement – The Physician-Nurse Relationship
Geisinger Health System
This program will foster better teamwork interactions through the application of quality improvement projects among professionals and students.
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Board Grant
2009
Johns Hopkins Medicine and Pediatrics Urban Health Residency Program
Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Board Grant
2011
Reframing the Academic Medical Center through Interprofessional Effectiveness
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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Board Grant
2011
ITEACH (Integrating Transdisciplinary Education at Cornell Hunter Phase II)
Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing/Weill Cornell Medical College
This project developed the Integrating Transdisciplinary Education at Cornell Hunter (ITEACH) program.
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Board Grant
2010
Tracking the output of Graduate Medical Education
American Academy of Family Physicians
The project will support reviewing physician graduate medical education and developing a web tool to track social accountability of teaching health centers.
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Board Grant
2010
Educating Federal Policy Makers on Health Professions Training and Workforce Issues
Mullan Institute, DHPM, SPH, GWU
This project created a forum to discuss policy issues related to medical education, assessments of physician competence and performance, the scope of practice of advanced practiced nurses and physician assistants, new and emerging models of primary care, and the implications of health care technology on the future workforce.