Kaitlyn
Felix,
MS
Program Manager & Community Engagement Specialist
Arizona State University
Kaitlyn N. Félix, MS is the Project Manager & Community Engagement Specialist for the Student Health Outreach for Wellness (SHOW) and Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education & Research (CAIPER). She assists with the development and execution of SHOW’s experiential learning courses, focused on SDoH and interprofessional practice, through the delivery of team-based service with vulnerable communities. Over the last 8 years, she has worked in healthcare as a Certified Nursing Assistant and has been involved in various community-based research initiatives. Kaitlyn’s healthcare and community outreach work reassures and propels her passion to continue her education in medicine, as an aspiring physician.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Primary care is an outstanding clinical setting to orient students to interprofessional education and practice; however, it is frequently overlooked in favor of more popular acute care experiences. The purpose of this Lightning Talk is to describe the development of a flexible curriculum to prepare interprofessional teams of students for primary care practice. The design for the curriculum was based on a pilot program for embedding students from nursing, health coaching, community health, and care coordination into active primary care teams, with very few of the students having any prior…
Interprofessional (IP) champions of the Student Health Outreach for Wellness (SHOW) designed an experiential-learning course (the second in a three-course series) in collaboration with a local community organization dedicated to serving unsheltered elders. Undergraduate student teams collaborate with clients to develop interventions aimed at addressing their unique social determinants of health (SDoH) using the Camden Coalition’s Hotspotting COACH Model.(1) This innovative course required development of practice sites outside of traditional clinical learning environment placements to…
The Student Health Outreach for Wellness (SHOW), an Arizona State University interprofessional student-led initiative, developed an interprofessional education and experiential-learning three-course series guided by the Guidance on Developing Quality Interprofessional Education for the Health Professions (National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education & Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative, 2019). The courses, launched in 2019, aimed to progressively build knowledge, skills/behaviors, beliefs/attitudes, and performance learning leveled to infuse (Course #1), immerse…
The success of community-based clinical learning environments is dependent on meaningful and sustainable academic-community partnerships. This lightning talk will review the strategic solutions established by the Student Health Outreach for Wellness (SHOW), an interprofessional student-driven, faculty-guided initiative. The approach optimizes student learning outcomes in a series of three interprofessional education and experiential-learning courses. The courses, launched in 2019, aimed to progressively build knowledge, skills, and beliefs/attitudes with seven competencies: Values/Ethics,…