Case Western Reserve’s Health Education Campus exemplifies our efforts to bring students together to better the future of health care.
Interprofessional education is a crucial aspect of preparing future health care leaders. By encouraging team-based education among students from disciplines across the university, we prepare them to work better together in the future.
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing has long been committed to the concept of interprofessional education. Some of our efforts include:
Student-Run Health Clinic
The Student-Run Health Clinic brings together students from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and the School of Dental Medicine, to serve, to learn and to collaborate. These students operate an acute-care medical clinic for underserved populations in Cleveland.
Curriculum Integration
Each program at FPB integrates interprofessional education into its respective curriculum. For example, the BSN and MN programs feature courses specifically focused on interprofessional collaboration. These courses are designed to provide students with the opportunity to learn about, with, and from CWRU students in the dental medicine, genetic counseling, medicine, physician assistant, speech language pathology, and social work programs. These experiences include interactive classroom sessions and simulations. All of our programs offer opportunities for interprofessional collaboration in their clinical rotations and coursework. The FPB Faculty collaborates with the CWRU Office of Interprofessional Education and faculty from the other health professions to develop innovative approaches to interprofessional education to prepare our graduates to collaborate across professions.