51°µÍø

CEPH’s public health, multidisciplinary, and interprofessional learning opportunities involve students from across 51°µÍø’s health professions programs and colleges. Through these activities, CEPH strengthens 51°µÍø’s relationships with external partners, builds a health workforce pipeline to underserved areas in Northern New England, and helps transform the way health care and public health is practiced. 

The Maine Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network enhances the quality of and access to health care among underserved populations. We provide rural, interprofessional, community-based clinical training experiences for health professions students, encourage Maine youth and mid-career professionals to pursue health careers; support practicing health professionals with continuing education, and promote population and public health approaches to addressing current and emerging health issues.

Funder

Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources, and Services Administration

Project Period

September 2017–August 2022

The 51°µÍø Clinical Interprofessional Curriculum (CIPC) is a menu of learning activities designed for interprofessional teams of mostly graduate-level health professions students to be used in clinical training settings.

The curriculum offers a variety of collaborative learning activities that reinforce cross-cutting teamwork and communication skills; comprehensive patient assessment and care management strategies; and population health concepts including population health management, quality improvement, and health disparities, for example. When incorporated into health profession students’ clinical training, the CIPC can be a valuable tool to prepare future health professionals with a foundation in patient-centered care, interprofessional practice, and health equity.

For more information about the CIPC, please email Elizabeth Mann RN, M.S.N, APHN at emann1@une.edu.

Bangor

CEPH was awarded a five-year grant to continue interprofessional education from the classroom into the clinical setting, with an emphasis on rural health. 51°µÍø partners with Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC), Maine’s largest federally qualified health center, to train 51°µÍø osteopathic medical, pharmacy, and physician assistant students, along with PCHC clinicians, on social determinants of health, shared decision-making, oral health in primary care, interprofessional practice, and health literacy.

Evaluation of the project includes:

• Number and types of activities students were involved in at PCHC
• Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among students and clinicians on the impact of the project
• Patient satisfaction of having students involved in their care

Funder

Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources, and Services Administration

Project Period

July 2016–June 2021

Northern New England Champions

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