Laura
Dammer Hess,
MLS
Director of CHIP
University of Minnesota
Laura is an educator focused on experiential learning and collaborative leadership. As Director of CHIP, Laura guides interprofessional, student-led programming and creative interprofessional initiatives. Laura's academic and professional background include experience in program and curriculum development, community engagement, service-learning, critical reflection, student leadership and interdisciplinary approaches. Laura is an experienced facilitator of interprofessional, collaborative and innovative educational programming, and she finds joy in the process of co-creation.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description: Each year, the CLARION Case Competition engages learners from across the country in interprofessional, team-based problem solving around an issue in healthcare practice and systems. The CLARION Board is a University of Minnesota student leadership group, supported by the Center for Health Interprofessional Programs(CHIP), that has guided and implemented the competition for over 20 years. Wanting to make meaningful contributions to change in healthcare, the Student Board has been working with faculty advisors toward a case competition model that provides direct…
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC) is a student-run free clinic located in the Phillips Neighborhood of south Minneapolis. Starting in 2022, all of the nearly 200 first-year PNC volunteers are required to complete a three-session community engagement training program, developed and facilitated by PNC’s Community Relations team, one session focused on each of the following topics: (1) interprofessional workplace cultural humility, (2) structural competency, and (3) structural humility. The first of these three sessions encourages participants to notice connections between cultural humility…
The Phillips Neighborhood Clinic (PNC) is a student-run free clinic located in south Minneapolis, led by University of Minnesota health professional graduate students from 14 different health science disciplines. Beginning in the fall of 2022, PNC’s Community Relations team developed and implemented a three-part interprofessional training series required of the nearly 200 first-year PNC volunteers. With interprofessionalism as the throughline, the training modules equipped incoming volunteers with a shared conceptual framework for ethical community engagement and clinical practices that…
Lightning Talk Description: This abstract submission for the Nexus Summit is describing innovative educational program development with continuous improvement. We describe our projects’ continued development by the impact of an intra-university, interprofessional community of practice.
With four concurrent interprofessional case competitions at the University Minnesota (UMN), the leaders of those case competitions have met to learn from one another. We have been an informal community of practice at the UMN for several years. The competitions have grown and changed. We have informed one…