Walk With Us: An Interprofessional Education Experience

The health of patients, families, and communities is improved through interprofessional teamwork. High qualify care and safe patient outcomes are achieved when professionals from many disciplines work collaboratively and synergistically towards common goals, yet interprofessional education has not been historically offered in professional education. The purpose of this medical student elective is to pair medical students with interprofessional colleagues working in a wide variety of practice settings with real patients. These observational experiences will be based off the Medical Student Pre-Clerkship Curriculum so that the areas selected for the week will be matched to the weekly observational experience.