DL&I News: Q&A with Prof. Keefe on New Alumni-Led Healthcare Certificate with Sargent

In a Q&A from BU Digital Learning & Innovation’s DL&I News, project collaborators Bronwyn Keefe of BUSSW and Karen Jacobs and Craig Slater of Sargent College discuss their pilot project, the Interprofessional Leadership in Healthcare Certificate Program.

The project, an exploration of alumni mentorship as a tool for workforce training, began as a conversation between Keefe and Jacobs and evolved into a project proposal that, in 2019, was awarded a DL&I Digital Education Incubator seed grant. The project’s first pilot program launched in February 2021.

Bronwyn Keefe is a research assistant professor at BUSSW and director of the School’s Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research (CADER) and its new Network for Professional Education. An expert in gerontology and aging, her focus is practitioner education and improving knowledge, skills and values in key practice areas with older adults. 

Excerpted from “Q&A: Exploring Alumni Mentoring at BU” (DL&I News) by Maureen McCarthy:

This is the first collaboration between Sargent College and the School of Social Work and we are thrilled to be working together,” says Keefe. “There is so much synergy between the core values of social work and rehabilitation sciences, which has made our work so exciting and impactful. We are confident that this will be the first of many collaborations between our schools.”

Read the Q&A on the DL&I website.