This course immerses students in the study of health equity, the social determinants of health, the principles and practice of global health in a local setting, and community-based healthcare. Students will also engage in collaborative learning with peers in Uganda and Haiti who will be engaged in parallel, geographically-based courses. The course utilizes a highly experiential, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional study model.
The Global Health Case Competition is an event where interdisciplinary teams of four to six students spend one week developing a proposal to address the assigned global health issue case. Teams then present their proposals to an expert panel of judges on Competition Day. Examples of past cases include: developing a palliative care plan for the country of Indonesia; addressing sex trafficking in the US; proposing interventions to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the Syrian refugee crisis.
Food Matters is an applied learning and culinary skills course that addresses the role of food in specific health conditions, and its function in health promotion and disease prevention. The course guides teams of future health professionals in understanding our food system, and in the procurement, preparation, and consumption of sustainably raised whole foods for self-care and patient care.
Ethics Grand Rounds is the monthly seminar series hosted by the Center for Bioethics. Invited speakers lecture and lead discussion on a variety of issues in bioethics. Sessions always involve time for discussion/interaction. The series is open to all members of the University community and is free of charge.
The CLARION local student case competition engages health professional students in a 360-degree perspective on complex challenges in today's health care system and how it might be improved. Student teams, consisting of four students, comprised of at least two health professional programs, are given a case and are charged with creating a root cause analysis and recommended action plan. The team presents their analysis to a panel of interprofessional judges that evaluates their analysis in the context of real world standards of practice.
This course examines contemporary issues in bioethics, focusing on practical issues that arise in clinical care, public health, and health policy settings. The course also introduces conceptual frameworks and methods to analyze these issues, though the emphasis will be on challenges faced by patients and their loved ones, health professionals, and policy makers, not on ethical theory. To fully understand and evaluate these complex issues, it is critical that we consider them from a diversity of perspectives.
Community Teacher is a skill-building experience aimed at providing students with the opportunity to meet with patient volunteers, called 'Community Teachers,' to further develop and refine their interprofessional communication and teamwork skills. Community Teachers provide students with a deeper understanding of the importance of interpersonal and interprofessional skills in combination with their program-specific knowledge so they can work collaboratively in understanding the needs of the patient.
The Interprofessional Communication Skills and Beginner Escape Room course is a skill-building experience that combines TeamSTEPPS and IHI modules on effective teamwork and interprofessional communication with hands-on learning activities that provide students with the opportunity to practice communicating as a team using the SBAR (Situation Background Assessment Recommendation) technique.
Better Together is a two-part learning experience that introduces health professional students to foundational concepts of interprofessional education and collaboration. This experience consists of one online module and a 3-hour in-person session that offers students an opportunity to engage with health professionals, experts, and patients to learn how interprofessional collaboration can impact real world health outcomes.
This is a learning opportunity that promotes the application of interprofessional skills and competencies required in a clinical practice or community setting. Students utilize a guided observation tool to observe interprofessional teamwork and collaborative care in the practice or community-based setting, which increases their awareness and understanding of how these skills contribute to patient care. Following the training or rotation experience in which collaborative care was observed, students gather to participate in a time-limited escape room activity.