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Driven to Improve Rural Health

OACA launched its new aligned rural health initiative. To support these efforts, Bridget Basile Ibrahim, PhD, MA, FNP-BC, has been named the first recipient of the Rural Health Equity Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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Fall 2020 Interprofessional Geriatric Case Competition Winners Announced

The Minnesota Northstar Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program concluded the inaugural Annual Interprofessional Geriatric Case Competition on Monday, November 9, 2020, naming the University of Minnesota team the winner.
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Community-University Health Care Center Recognized for Health Care Excellence

The University of Minnesota’s Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC) in Minneapolis received an “Excellence in Health Care” award from UCare for their quality care in prepaid medical assistance and MNCare.
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Building Better Brains

The new Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain will focus on diagnosing, treating, and preventing neurodevelopmental disorders in kids.
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Transformation in clinical education: Telehealth in the COVID-19 pandemic

The need for clinical education to train future health care professionals doesn’t stop during a pandemic.
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Cheri Friedrich and Sara North named co-directors of UMN health sciences interprofessional education

Through its interprofessional education and clinical training efforts, the University of Minnesota is preparing students to develop the competencies needed for success in interprofessional collaborative practice.
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Nursing and Pharmacy Students Work Together to Provide Critical Flu Shots

This fall approximately 60 nursing and pharmacy students are participating in the student-led flu clinics, which are part of the longstanding interprofessional Immunization Tour course.A collaboration between the College of Pharmacy and…
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Call for Clinical Student Internship Applications

Our health sciences students learn together, solve problems together, and develop real-world working relationships. By training together, our students learn how to practice interdisciplinary care that can tackle the real-world, truly…
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Call for Internship Project Proposals

Our health sciences students learn together, solve problems together, and develop real-world working relationships. By training together, our students learn how to practice interdisciplinary care that can tackle the real-world, truly…
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University of Minnesota Twin Cities shapes future of healthcare with opening of cutting-edge interprofessional health science facility

The innovative, interdisciplinary education that health science students at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have enjoyed for years continues to advance on the cutting-edge with the opening of the first-of-its-kind Health Sciences…