Heather Mead Kim is the Operations Director for the Center for Interprofessional Health. In this role, Heather provides operational leadership to support collaboration, engagement, and alignment across key stakeholder groups and partner organizations, including the schools and programs that participate in the University of Minnesota's 1Health interprofessional education curriculum, the many health professions students we serve, and beyond!
Participants will work with the Mobile Health Initiative to organize and participate in community events with community partners. Through this initiative, participants work together to provide high-quality, low barrier access to screening, health education and navigation.
Unpacking Bedside Bioethics is a quarterly, virtual series for health professionals to deepen their understanding of clinical ethics. Center for Bioethics core and affiliate faculty introduce foundational bioethics concepts, identify ethical dilemmas in clinical cases, and demonstrate how to apply bioethical frameworks to resolve those dilemmas.
This course teaches health professional students and health professionals self-care strategies that will improve their individual wellbeing and reduce the stress and burnout often experienced in these professions. Improving individual wellbeing will also contribute to greater wellbeing in the teams and systems in which these professionals work.
Learners examine, challenge, and critically reflect upon their thinking about health. “Micro-immersion” experiences/field trips explore different understandings through visits to cultural communities, which provide opportunities for learners to step into culturally different knowledge systems and models of health and wellbeing.
An intensive, fun weekend-long collaborative learning retreat for health sciences students, situated in Itasca State Park. Participants will foster appreciation for ecohealth principles and geopolitical considerations in health through exploration of topics in environmental and ecosystem health, rural health, and social epidemiology.
Learners from multiple health professions, placed for clinical rotations in either the Fairview Longitudinal Interprofessional Integrated Clerkship (FLIIC) as physicians or in related Fairview sites for other professions, will engage on a weekly basis over the course of 9 months to explore leadership and interprofessionality in the clinical learning environment.
Information session to learn five key messages about dementia, what it's like to live with the diagnosis and how to turn understanding into professional and/or personal action that supports people living with dementia.
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These sessions offer students a unique opportunity to engage with peers in a virtual format to participate in a simulated care team activity. Through this activity, students will watch a video of a simulated patient encounter and engage in meaningful discussions with a group of interprofessional peers to develop a collaborative care plan for a patient. This will allow students to deepen their understanding of effective interprofessional team collaboration skills and develop the skills needed to contribute to a team.
The Health of People Everywhere (HOPE) Clinic is an interprofessional student-run, faculty-supervised educational clinic with the purpose to provide free medical access to the underserved populations of Duluth, especially those experiencing homelessness residing at the CHUM Center. Students that participate will debrief on the experience, including on what they learned about different professions and their roles. The HOPE Clinic experience is typically a two-year long commitment.