Kelly
Ramella,
EdD., LRT/CTRS
Clinical Associate Professor; Coordinator, Recreational Therapy Program
Arizona State University
Dr. Kelly Ramella is an Associate Clinical Professor with the School of Community Resources and Development in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University. She serves as the coordinator of the therapeutic recreation program leading curriculum development and establishing university and community partnerships to cultivate innovative learning experiences. Through community-engaged scholarship, she prepares students with interprofessional competencies while developing inclusive and healthy communities.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
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,…