Impact of Interprofessional Student Teams at a Remote Area Medical Event in Rural Appalachia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Education in interprofessional collaboration is vital to expand healthcare access, especially in areas of higher disparity. To address this need, interprofessional faculty collaborators incorporated undergraduate and graduate health profession students into teams at an annual Remote Area Medical event in rural Appalachia between 2017 and 2020.

Purpose

This article evaluates the impact of an interprofessional student teams model on both patient care experience and students' interprofessional collaboration attitudes and behaviors.

Methods

Student volunteers completed pre- and post-event surveys containing questions about demographics, open-ended questions, and questions from two instruments: the Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical Education-Re

SUBMITTER: Flores EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10629884 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature