Improving Care Access and Realizing Equity (ICARE)

Research Opportunity working with the Center for Interprofessional Education
Seeking 5 MS1 Students
Stipend Available

Start date:
Summer 2022 semester

Site location:
McGovern Medical School/JJL and virtual

Supervisors:
Jennifer Swails, MD, FACP
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
Co-Director of Center of Interprofessional Collaboration
[email protected]

Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD, FHIMSS
Associate Professor, SBMI
Co-Director of Center of Interprofessional Collaboration
[email protected]

Project details and daily responsibilities:

The Center for Interprofessional Education exists to bring together students from all six UTHealth schools across Texas to enhance interdisciplinary care, reduce errors in the healthcare system, and improve patient satisfaction by delivering high quality care. By working together, we learn from each other and grow stronger as professionals. We are implementing a new, 8-week curriculum, entitled Improving Care Access and Realizing Equity (ICARE) which will augment existing partnerships across the UTHealth System and the state by extending the classroom into the community setting.

Students will work within interprofessional teams, supervised by faculty mentors, to deliver basic health education through videoconference to individuals and families along the Texas-Mexico border. Students will have ample opportunities for community health practice as well as research in this area.

Sample research and/or projects may include:

  1. A health needs assessment of the population served within the ICARE curriculum.
  2. A paper describing how cultural values and practices are incorporated into organizational programs, policies, or practices.
  3. An evaluation plan of an existing non-profit organization associated with the ICARE curriculum.
  4. A proposal to increase stakeholder involvement or building coalitions to support the organization or program.
  5. Intervention plan that includes (logic model, theoretical framework, content, scope & sequence, and implementation plan)
  6. Evaluation of a health screening component that includes identifying needs and resources impacting population health.