HPSA Becoming a Student Doctor (Virtual)

I built a curated resource to build a "bootcamp" course for students aspiring to become health professionals like doctors, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians, and optometrists. This virtual poster was presented for the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care in 2022. After it was launched, around 100 students have accessed it through the Health Professional Student Association and Student Doctor Network. We are looking for opportunities to partner with other organizations to build leadership skills for future healthcare providers, especially given the challenges for the next decade.

1. Becoming a Student Doctor : an online aspirational interprofessional course on social justice and cultural competency Emil Chuck, Ph.D., Director of Advising Services ([email protected]) Health Professional Student Association aspiring Course/Project Description Curriculum Available mini-course Feedback Becoming a Student Doctor is a self-paced online course that empowers students to better understand the complexities of the healthcare system and articulate how they see themselves serving within it. The course promotes interprofessional communication and is open to all aspiring and current health professional students, including dental, pharmacy, veterinary, and professional students as well as medical students. Through the course, aspiring students build an application profile and advocacy skills to articulate how they can fulfill society’s need for health care providers and health equity in a complex, culturally competent interprofessional system. A pilot cohort reviewed an early version between February and May 2022. A revised curriculum was released July 2022. Opportunities What is the most useful thing you learned? Awareness. It taught me how to think outside of the way I was raised. The implicit bias-related awareness was so eye-opening! Watching the provided videos helped me understand what each core competency means and how to apply them effectively through my experiences when crafting my essays. Would you recommend this course to others? There was a lot in this course that I had not thought about before. How climate change affects health care delivery is an excellent example of this. I would recommend this course to other students considering health professional school because it provides reliable resources on health topics such as diversity in healthcare, the healthcare system, and resources for the different [assessments]. Topics National priorities (2, 3, 6) Healthcare shortages (2, 3, 4, 6) Interprofessionalism (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Academic competencies (1, 2, 6) Pre-professional competencies (2, 3, 4, 6) Embracing inclusion (3, 4, 6) Systemic competencies (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) Situational Judgment (2, 4, 6) Making a School List (1, 2) The Voyage Ahead (3, 4, 5, 6) Content Alignment Interprofessional Education and Training Oral and Behavioral Health Integration Social Determinants of Health Cultural Competency Practice Transformation Current and Emerging Health Issues Professions represented include A udiology/Speech-Language Pathology Dentistry Medicine (Allopathic/Osteopathic) Nursing Occupational and Physical Therapy Optometry Pharmacy Physician Assistant Podiatry Psychology (PsyD/PhD) Veterinary Medicine Access to Becoming a Student Doctor is free to: Participants in or alumni of a diversity-oriented health professional pipeline program, Prospective applicants who graduated from a US high school located in a medically underserved area Prospective applicants who qualified for any application fee assistance program run by a health professional application service We are seeking partners to further improve and enhance this course and make it more accessible to motivated future professionals from historically underserved communities. Treating Trans Patients is a free-to-all , self-paced course designed to help aspiring and current health care providers become allies and offer compassionate care to the transgender community. Topics included in the course include: Gender affirming care The intersection of gender and culture Training for allies and providers The course includes over nine hours of audio and video content , with most voices coming from the transgender community, and companion reflection assignments. All rights reserved for 2022 for Health Professional Student Association.