Clinical Training and Interprofessional Education

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Health sciences learners:

Transforming how we prepare the next generation of health care professionals.
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Today’s health care challenges cannot be solved from one viewpoint or with one kind of expertise. They require different perspectives and different disciplines to come together.

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Clinical Training Partnerships Across MN and the US
The University has 2,500+ clinical training partnerships across Minnesota and beyond, many of them in rural or underserved communities. These serve as training sites for our thousands of health science learners across three system campuses. 

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Team-based training models

Learn more about how using team-based training models improves the learner-patient connection at the Community University Health Care Center.

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Bringing together health sciences students with experts

Leadership Journeys podcast bring together health sciences students with experts for candid conversation on leadership, career pathways, sources of joy.

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Targeting real-world problems

Itasca Ecohealth IPE Experience is an intensive, fun, collaborative learning retreat that fosters appreciation for ecohealth principles and geopolitical considerations in health.

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Workplace Interprofessional Learning and Development

The Preceptor in Action WILD (Workplace Interprofessional Learning and Development) series focuses on building tangible collaborative practice and precepting skills.

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Clinical training and IPE focused on transforming education models

New to telehealth care education or preceptorship? Connect with faculty and staff that have experience creating and delivering telehealth care and related curricular content/experiences.

IPE Interns

Contributing to solve workforce challenges

Interprofessional Internship Program interns learn and lead together, solve problems for clinical partners, develop real world working relationships and advance interprofessional education and practice.

Helping students, professionals, policy makers, and the public confront and understand ethical issues in health, health care, new biomedical technologies, the environment, and the life sciences.

Learners use simulation to develop clinical expertise by practicing skills, applying knowledge, and learning from their mistakes without risk to actual patients.

Championing interdisciplinary opportunities to exchange knowledge and expand abilities for the advancement of global health through global health learning opportunities.

Offering many career development programs for undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

Leading the interprofessional discovery, application, and teaching of health information sciences to improve the health.

Seeking to improve the health of the citizens of Minnesota through education, outreach, and research (basic, clinical, and translational).

Creating a collaborative research environment focused on the causes, prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer.

Facilitating and strengthening meaningful support and collaboration of key partners in the geriatrics field
Hundreds of students and residents complete their continuity clinic, clinical rotations, or field placements annually at the Community-University Health Care Center.