UMMS Affiliation

Office of Educational Affairs; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health; Graduate School of Nursing

Date

2006

Document Type

Poster

Medical Subject Headings

Education, Medical, Undergraduate; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Community Medicine; Interprofessional Relations

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

Interprofessional team work is widely recognized as an essential component of our health care delivery system. At UMass, an interprofessional educational partnership was established with the goal of promoting interprofessional teaching to medical and nursing students in the area of community health.

Presented at the UMMS Commonwealth Medicine Academic Conference, Worcester, Mass. in 2006.