Thirty students at The Ohio State University were asked to participate in the first-ever Interprofessional Community Scholars program and partner with the Partners Achieving Community Transformation (PACT) organization in Columbus’ Near East Side, the OSU Wexner Medical Center, and OSU Family and Community Medicine residents to work with Community Health Mentors to assess health needs, improve digital literacy, and enable access to important community care and services in a low socioeconomic…

Background: The IPE Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is a student-run committee that serves as a collaborative community for all the health professional schools and officially recognized interprofessional education (IPE) organizations at the University of Michigan. For the 2020-2021 academic year, the SAC co-chairs determined there was a need to improve the IPE experience for students across the health professional schools, increase engagement with interprofessional education, and improve…

BACKGROUND: Due to constraints such as time and funding, Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) are rarely evaluated for long-term impact on community capacity beyond the designated study period. This gap calls for further investigation on whether CBPR's knowledge and experiences continue to shape community capacity and ongoing efforts to enhance community wellbeing. The aim of this study is to explore the ability of CBPR to contribute to a meaningful and lasting impact on community…

Background: Death Over Dinner (DoD) for Healthcare Professionals (https://deathoverdinnerhealthcare.org) is a free, open access website that was created as a resource for healthcare workers to connect around the subjects of death and dying, and to help them process the grief and stress that comes with caring for patients at the end of life. Three medical students organized and facilitated two virtual interprofessional events with participating students (n=27) enrolled in medicine, pharmacy…

Wayne State University’s School of Medicine, Art Therapy Program, and the Art Administration program collaborated to explore student ability to better analyze and interpret imagery. Wayne State School of Medicine is unique in that it offers ultrasound training as part of the basic science curriculum. Students learn ultrasonography as a technique to recognize normal human anatomy and to facilitate clinical diagnoses, however, interpretation of the images is a challenge and a competency that…

BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, a new level of innovation has been required to ensure quality education for healthcare students. As the student advisory committee for Duke’s Interprofessional Education Care (IPEC) Center, we have been tasked with creating, planning, and executing a solution to effectively educate our peers on the scope and daily functions of various healthcare professionals within a virtual environment. Design/Methods The “Day in the Life”…