Nexus Summit Workshop 14

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    Workshop #14: Enhancing Community Partnerships to Improve Students Becoming Collaboration Ready for Population Health

    St. Louis University

    Nexus Innovation Network

    Presentation: 

    Enhancing Community Partnerships to Improve Students’ becoming Collaboration Ready for Population Health

    Presenters:

    David Pole, Leslie Hinyard & Eileen Toomey

    Topic:

    Access to Care

    Overview: 

    Being a part of the Nexus Innovation Network has enabled the St. Louis University to utilize an evidence-based framework to clarify research questions, interventions, and outcomes to move beyond a primary focus on student learning outcomes to the important outcomes of improvement of the community partner agency capacity to effectively engage interprofessional teams to work with their service population.  This workshop will demonstrate how the IPE community practicum prepares health professions students to collaborate to improve population health while enhancing engagement and collaboration with the community partner agencies. This practicum results in a better learning experience, linking student projects to agency identified goals while strengthening the impact to the agency and the populations they serve.

    Materials that will be shared include: the IPE Community Practicum syllabus, the site satisfaction survey, the Google Site template, and the sample project poster and abstract.

    Learner Objectives: 

    1. Review the syllabus for the SLU IPE community practicum to adapt to an interprofessional community practicum course at their own institution to prepare students collaboration;

    2. Analyze the process of engaging community partners to identify goals, outcomes, and links to the practicum objectives;

    3. Identify how to link the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies and small group activities;

    4. Describe the approach to assessing the impact of a community practicum on both the learners and the community partners.