Sarah Dallas, BA is the Coordinator of Core Programs for the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (JCIPE) at Thomas Jefferson University. In this role, the primary concentration for Ms. Dallas is overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Health Mentors Program. This involves volunteer recruitment, interfacing with Jefferson students, JTOG trainings and organizing large group meetings. She also oversees the other core curricular and co-curricular JCIPE activities. Ms. Dallas has presented on the Health Mentors Program at various conferences over the past few years. She earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Fordham University.
There remains a significant gap in the literature regarding validated tools to assess interprofessional education core competencies (IOM, 2015). Educators and clinicians at Jefferson University sought to address this gap by leveraging the IPEC competencies to create an easy-to-use tool: the Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide™ (JTOG). Initially used for the formative assessment of student teams, the application has been enhanced to allow for the 360-degree observations of teamwork behaviors in a multitude of educational and clinical settings.