Interprofessional Education and Complex Health

Catalog description

Complex health community-based experiential learning with immersive 'real-world' learning opportunities. Students dedicate hours at pre-approved placement sites serving a community; apply new (and advance prior) complex health knowledge and skills; benefit from an expanded scope of supervised practice experience while providing targeted complex health interventions that address health and health care disparity needs, improve care quality, and reduce care costs for individuals, families, communities, and/or populations with complex health needs. Students practice values and ethics, communication, roles and responsibilities, teams and teamwork, and leadership competencies essential for interprofessional collaborative practice and team-based care. Online and in-person collaborative learning includes: seminars, course readings, discussions, and reflection assignments to facilitate critical thinking and a deeper understanding of the delivery of complex health interprofessional team-based care in the community.