Taylor Krivanek
Medical Student
University of Minnesota
Taylor Krivanek is a third year medical student at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She has seven years of research experience in assorted areas, including cognitive and behavioral science, health literacy, and medical education. She has a longstanding interest in education and participated in the Summer Internship in Medical Education and the redesign of the Phillips Neighborhood Clinic community engagement training curriculum during her first two years of medical school. She plans to pursue training in a surgical specialty after graduation.

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…