Learn and collaborate with students and practitioners from across the health professions. Hands-on, collaborative experiences strengthen your ability to provide patient-centered care in a complex health care environment.
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Collaborate in groups of 5-6 students from across the health professions in a sequence of three 1-credit courses. Discover the vital role all health professionals play in delivering patient-centered care.
You and your team will have the opportunity to build your skills in practical settings, including visits with health mentors in the community and simulations with actors trained as standardized patients. Read more about health mentors and ...
Join students and faculty from other health professions at Massachusetts General Hospital to experience firsthand the power of interprofessional care. Learn more.
As a kick-off to the theme of patient-centered care, before arriving on campus you will read a first-person account of grappling with an illness, then discuss this
with your IMPACT group at orientation.
More than 350 students in Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant Studies, and Speech-Language Pathology, observe children's normal development and talk with caregivers, at our on-campus IMPACT Practice Center.
In partnership with Harvard Medical School, nursing and PA students join medical students in delivering primary care to underserved populations at Crimson Care Collaborative sites, overseen by faculty preceptors from both schools.
Team-based care, delivered by clinicians skilled in collaboration and communication, leads to better health outcomes for patients and clients. That’s why the MGH Institute makes interprofessional learning a cornerstone of all its programs. Through co-curricular activities integrated across programs, you will learn about, from, and with students from other professions.
By graduation, you will be able to demonstrate mastery of core competencies that will ensure your readiness to make a difference wherever you practice.
