Rural Interprofessional Service-Learning: The Minnesota Experience

Interprofessional learning and rural paramedic care.

INTRODUCTION The traditional view of paramedic practice is one of provision of emergency care and transport within community or industrial settings. With greater integration of emergency services with the overall health system, this role is changing. Paramedics, especially in rural areas, are now working more closely with other professions in new and extended roles that incorporate non-emergenc...

Building social capital with interprofessional student teams in rural settings: A service-learning model.

OBJECTIVE To describe outcomes of a model of service learning in interprofessional learning (IPL) aimed at developing a sustainable model of training that also contributed to service strengthening. DESIGN A total of 57 semi-structured interviews with key informants and document review exploring the impacts of interprofessional student teams engaged in locally relevant IPL activities. SETTIN...

Learning by doing: the MD-PA Interprofessional Education Rural Rotation.

While much investment has gone into developing interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum for healthcare professional students, many of these efforts have focused on classroom rather than clinical environments. Implementing robust IPE experiences into clinical training is often complicated by obstacles such as differing rotating schedules and differing curricular requirements. The Combined Me...

Impact of a rural interprofessional experience in rural communities on medical and pharmacy students.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The mission of the medicine and pharmacy programs at the University of Minnesota, Duluth campus is to prepare students for practice in rural communities. To support and encourage medical and pharmacy students to choose to practice in rural Minnesota, an interprofessional experience was developed to expose medical and pharmacy students to a variety of aspects of rural h...

Radiation Medicine Simulation in Learning Interprofessional Collaborative Experience (RM-SLICE)