Fostering Interprofessional Education Through a Multidisciplinary, Community-Based Pandemic Mass Vaccination Exercise.

Hays, Annette; Schriever, Christopher; Rudzinski, John; Lynch, Janet L; Genrich, Ellen; Schriever, Allison · Am J Public Health · 2018

other · Level V

Where this comes from

Abstract

We expanded health care services to economically disadvantaged individuals in an interprofessional, student-driven vaccination effort that also served as a pandemic planning drill. Health care professional students from colleges in and around Rockford, Illinois participated in implementing a mass vaccination event from 2011 to 2014 that targeted the underserved population. There was a 459% increase in total vaccinations administered to at-risk patients from year 1 to year 4. This interprofessional health care student-driven effort expanded medical service to disadvantaged individuals.

Medical subject headings