Learning Together: RSDM Part of New Interprofessional Effort
Students from the 2015 Summer Health Professions Education Program.
Students considering a healthcare career will learn the value of teamwork across disciplines, thanks to funding for a new undergraduate interprofessional program.
RSDM and three other RBHS schools have received a $415,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop an intensive interprofessional component of the Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP).
The SHPEP program, founded in 1989, is designed to boost the number of underrepresented minority students enrolling in a health professions school. Formerly known as the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, it helps undergraduate college students from across the U.S. learn more about the skills and training needed to enter a medical profession.
As part of the grant, the dental school will work with New Jersey Medical School, the School of Nursing and the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy to teach students about the critical importance of working with practitioners from other disciplines to provide the best patient care.
"The goal is prepare scholars to be future leaders,'' said Dr. Rosa Chaviano, RSDM"s Assistant Dean of Admissions and Student Recruitment. "This program is grounded on the development of interprofessional team-based skills that will ultimately impact communities as a whole.''
Chaviano is a co-principal investigator of the project, along with Dr. Maria Soto-Greene, Vice-Dean of the New Jersey Medical School; Dr. Marc Sturgill, Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and Dr. Ann Marie Mauro, Director for the Center for Educational Research and Innovation at the School of Nursing.
