This project focuses on changes among graduate students regarding attitudes and skills that impact their capabilities for addressing population health. Surveys and other assessment tools will be used to measure changes over time. Using a transdisciplinary team of experts in childhood obesity, students will be introduced to the interrelationship of topics presented in the Social Ecological Model (SEM) for Nutrition and Physical Activity Decisions.

The Interprofessional Center for Health and Social Services at the Westward Ho is a student-run, faculty-supervised training unit that provides onsite supportive services to 300 residents of a low-income senior housing community in downtown Phoenix.

This project provides health professions students an opportunity to develop interprofessional competencies in a “real world” clinical practice setting. 

A student team of medical, physician assistant and pharmacy students are working with health care providers at Cherry Street Health Center, a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), to provide collaborative care during clinical appointments and through daily huddles, case conferences, patient call backs and patient education classes about diabetes. 

In an effort to enhance primary care delivery, this intervention develops an interprofessional practice and education (IPE) curriculum for preceptors who are jointly affiliated with both health care education and clinical practice.

This collaborative intervention evaluates how team training for student learners and clinicians improves quality and safety outcomes in the clinical setting. 

The focus of this intervention study is to improve, expand and standardize provider and student knowledge and use of an electronic health record (EHR) on both the individual and system level.