Interprofessional Healthcare

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to international interprofessional practice abroad. Students will develop knowledge and skills in culturally competent approaches to effectively enhance assets and empower individuals, families, groups, agencies, and communities within an international context, specifically within developing countries. This course provides a beginning knowledge base for international interprofessional practice from a collaborative perspective with emphasis on reciprocity with the host culture, to address the challenges of human rights, poverty, child abuse and neglect, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, community development, and environmental justice. Through this global experience, students will develop an appreciation for living and working with those from other cultures while strengthening their "civic self" (VeLure Roholt et al., 2009).