Anne Woll, MS has served as the Associate Director for the Interprofessional Education and Resource Center/AHC Simulation Center for 14 years. Before coming to the IERC, she received a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as a practice manager for Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Medical Group in suburban Chicago. At the University of Minnesota, Ms. Woll works closely with content experts in medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, social work, and veterinary medicine to define goals and learning outcomes, identify assessment opportunities and appropriate tools, and assist in the interpretation of assessment data. She is active in the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) and has served as a co-presenter and co-author on multiple presentations and publications on simulation.
Over the past decade, simulation has become an important part of health science education, at every stage of professional development and experience. Simulation offers learners the opportunity 1. to practice common skills to proficiency; 2. to experience less-common scenarios before they see them in actual clinical practice; and 3. to experiment with and test novel approaches to difficult challenges. This is no less true for learners in interprofessional education and collaborative practice.