Interprofessional Internship Program
Interns learn and lead together, solve problems for clinical partners, develop real world working relationships and advance interprofessional education and practice.
Meet the 2023-2024 OACA Interprofessional Internship Cohort.
The application is now closed for Academic Year 2023-24. The next application cycle will open March, 2024.
Areas of Intern Development
Interprofessional Problem Solving
Engage other health professionals in shared problem-solving appropriate to the project needs with demonstrated project-specific outcomes.
Communication Tools & Techniques
Choose communication tools and techniques that facilitate effective interprofessional team interactions.
Leadership & Management
Apply leadership practices that support equitable and effective interprofessional collaboration.
Interdisciplinary Conceptual Knowledge
Integrate the knowledge and experience of interprofessional team members to enhance project outcomes and improve understanding of the other profession(s).
Professionalism
Act with honesty and integrity in relationships with interprofessional student and community/clinical partner relationships.
Responsible Conduct of Research
Evaluate and integrate available evidence to inform effective interprofessional teamwork and promote desired project outcomes.
Community Partners
Community partners are invited to request an interprofessional team of 2-3 interns to engage in a problem-based project. Projects are anticipated to occur over the course of each academic year between September and May, with potential for extension. Each intern will commit to approximately 5 hours per week. Project submissions are typically reviewed throughout the spring and summer and selected by August. Contact Sara North and Cheri Friedrich with questions and to help co-create project concepts.
Interns have partnered with:
- Allina Health
- EA Therapeutic Health
- Center for Interprofessional Health
- Community University Health Care Center
- GuidePoint Pharmacy
- HealthPartners
- Hennepin Pediatric Mobile Health
- Hope Network
- Mano a Mano
- MHealth Fairview
- Mobile Health Initiative
- Morris Challenge
- National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
- Neighborhood Health Source
- Office of Academic & Clinical Affairs
- Veterans Administration
- Wayside Recovery Addiction Center
- Wilderness Health
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Objectives
- Collaboratively identify actionable strategies to improve health through analysis of the complex epidemiological, geopolitical, social, ecological, other global contributions to human and animal health.
- Explore and critique the unique cultures, values, roles/responsibilities, and expertise of other health professions and the impact these factors can have on health outcomes.
- Actively engage with community organizations supporting rural health to learn from, with, and about the integration of population health approaches within and outside of the health system.
- Advance their own professional and interprofessional competency development through shared population-focused problem solving using available evidence and reflective team-based practices.
Meet the OACA 2023-2024 Interprofessional Interns
Theme: Collaborate to support the work of community organizations delivering, enhancing, or expanding access to rural and mobile health services, programs, and education.
Read OACA intern biographies and learn more about their projects.
Sixteen students from across the health sciences have been accepted and matched with core projects with clinical and community partners in Minnesota. View the full 2023-2024 cohort report. You can also view past corhorts: 2022-2023, 2021-2022 and 2020-2021.
Kandeija Bagurusi
Medical School, Division of Physical Therapy
Clinical Partner: Wilderness Health
Tess Burley
School of Nursing
Clinical Partner: Allina Health
Sara Busche
Medical School
Clinical Partner: Mobile Health Initiative
Saliha Chaudhry
Medical School
Clinical Partners: UMN Morris Challenge
Grace De Boom
School of Public Health
Clinical Partner: Wayside Recovery Addiction Center
Adebayo Ibikunle
School of Dentistry
Clinical Partner: Mobile Health Initiative
Guldamla Kalender
Medical School
Clinical Partner: Allina Health
Nhi Lang
Medicine School
Clinical partner: EA Therapeutic Health
Claire Nash
Medical School, Division of Physical Therapy
Clinical Partner: EA Therapeutic Health
Kevan O'Hanlon
Public Health MPH, Environmental Health
Clinical Partners: UMN Morris Challenge
Minda Liu
Medical School
Clinical Partner: Wayside Recovery Addiction Center
Katie McLaughlin
Medical School
Clinical Partner: Wilderness Health
Margaret Perry
School of Nursing
Clinical Partner: EA Therapeutic Health
Rachel Schoneman
Medical School, Division of Physical Therapy
Clinical Partner: Hennepin Pediatric Mobile Health
Chenwei Yan
College of Pharmacy and School of Public Health
Clinical Partner: Hennepin Pediatric Mobile Health
Feature
OACA Interprofessional Internship Highlight: Center for Health Interprofessional Programs
Nicole Oblon and Chenwei Yan worked with CHIP to solidify the infrastructure for the Health Sciences Care Corners.
Intern Quotes
