Jodi Jarecke

Jodi Jarecke serves as the Pre-Health Career Coach at the T. Rowe Price Career and Innovation Center at UCCS, where she partners with students on their journeys toward careers in healthcare. With a strong commitment to building meaningful relationships, Jodi offers personalized guidance on career planning and professional education, while walking alongside students through the often complex application process. Jodi’s passion for healthcare and education is at the heart of her work, inspiring her to foster a welcoming, collaborative space where students can explore, grow, and thrive.

 

Jodi earned her Doctorate in Adult Education from Penn State University in 2011, where her dissertation focused on teacher-learner relationships in medical education. She also holds a Master of Public Health from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Rutgers University, with minors in Urban Studies and Community Development, as well as in Philosophy.

 

Much of Jodi's professional work has been dedicated to curriculum development for health education programs and creating interventions that enhance teacher-learner and provider-patient relationships in the healthcare context. As a consultant, Jodi assisted in the development of the Internal Medicine Resident Communication Curriculum at Penn State College of Medicine and contributed to various projects exploring innovative pedagogies in medical and nursing education, in areas such as peer tutoring, arts-based learning, and doctor-patient communication.

 

Outside of work, Jodi loves spending time with her family, traveling anywhere and everywhere, writing, and cheering her kids on from the sidelines.

Haidet, P., Melro, C.M., Facile, M.E., Jarecke, J.L.T., Moniz, T., & Cooper, A. (2024). Shared decision making reimagined. Patient Education and Counseling. 123 (108249). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2024.108249

 

Haidet, P., Cooper, A., Facile, M.E., Melro, C.M., Moniz, T., & Jarecke, J.L.T. (2024). The empathy conundrum. Patient Education and Counseling. 119 (108056). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2023.108056.

 

Lutter S, Puccino C, Jarecke J. (2018) Arts-Based Learning Strategies in Clinical Post-Conference: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Nursing Education.  57(9): 549-53.

 

Haidet, P., Jarecke, J., Yang, C., Teal, CR., Street, R.L., & Stuckey, H. (2017). Using jazz as a metaphor to teach improvisational communication skills. Healthcare (Basel). 5(3):41.

 

Whitfield, C., Jarecke, J., Thompson, B., & Haidet, P. (2017). Forming one’s educator identity: Exploring experiences of senior medical students who facilitate problem-based learning groups, Medical Science Educator. 27(7): 707-13.

 

Haidet, P., Jarecke, J., Adams, N.E., Stuckey, H.L., Green, M.J., Shapiro, D., Teal, C., & Wolpaw, D.R. (2016). A guiding framework to maximise the power of the arts in medical education: a systematic review and metasynthesis. Medical Education. 50(3): 320-31.

 

Lutter, S., Pucino, C., & Jarecke, J. (2016). The use of arts-based projects in clinical education. In Proceedings of the 57th Adult Education Research Conference. Kansas City: New Prairie Press: 285-287.

 

Haidet, P., Jarecke J., Adams, N., & Wolpaw D. (2015). Concepts underlying effective use of the arts in medical education: A qualitative synthesis of the literature. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 30: 126-127.

 

Jarecke, J., Taylor, E.W., & Gusic, M.E. (2013). Faculty and student perceptions of readiness for clinical clerkships. The Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. 23(1), 47-54.

 

Jarecke, J. & Taylor, E.W. (2010). Exposing medical education's hidden curriculum through an exploration of teacher-learner relationships. In Gandy, P., Tieszen, S., Taylor-Hunt, C., Flowers, D., and Sheared, V. (Eds), Proceedings of the 51st Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and 3rd Western Region Research Conference on the Education of Adults (WRRCEA) Joint Conference Proceedings. (pp. 205-211). Sacramento, CA: California State University.

 

Taylor, E.W., & Jarecke, J.L. (2009). Looking back: Reflections on the practice of transformative learning. In J. Mezirow & E.W. Taylor (Eds.), A Handbook of Transformative Learning in Practice (pp. 275-290). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.