Lyndel
Sorenson
Medical Student
University of Minnesota
Lyndel Sorenson is a University of Minnesota Medical School student looking forward to a career in primary care. Her interest in workplace culture, interprofessionalism, and curriculum design stem from her professional experience prior to medical school, during which she taught elementary school and worked as a community organizer focused on housing justice.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
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…