Community Health Track
The Community Health track of the Innovating Healthcare Solutions elective will focus on identifying problems or areas of improvement in certain local community clinics and then innovating effective, long term solutions to present to the facilities for implementation.
We will begin the “breakout sessions” of this track with site visits to the local clinics to observe and understand the clinic operations. Students will be required to volunteer at least once at this clinic to get as much perspective into the clinic operations as possible. As the elective course progresses, we will discuss our observations during the site visits/case studies and come up with potential areas of improvement. Throughout the course, guest speakers on community healthcare and course facilitators will provide insight into effectively brainstorming, assessing, evaluating, and implementing the proposed solutions that students design. Our goal is to come up with sustainable and practical solutions to the problems that these clinics face and hopefully gain support from the community – via private funding, grants, etc – to implement our proposed solutions over the long term.
We will conclude the course at the end of the year with submission of the proposed project/solution not only to the facilities as we implement the project, but also to a campus-wide symposium to broaden and attract sources of support from leaders in the field.
We will begin the “breakout sessions” of this track with site visits to the local clinics to observe and understand the clinic operations. Students will be required to volunteer at least once at this clinic to get as much perspective into the clinic operations as possible. As the elective course progresses, we will discuss our observations during the site visits/case studies and come up with potential areas of improvement. Throughout the course, guest speakers on community healthcare and course facilitators will provide insight into effectively brainstorming, assessing, evaluating, and implementing the proposed solutions that students design. Our goal is to come up with sustainable and practical solutions to the problems that these clinics face and hopefully gain support from the community – via private funding, grants, etc – to implement our proposed solutions over the long term.
We will conclude the course at the end of the year with submission of the proposed project/solution not only to the facilities as we implement the project, but also to a campus-wide symposium to broaden and attract sources of support from leaders in the field.