events throughout the year with curricular and co-curricular opportunities.
100 degree and certificate programs in disciplines including pharmacy, nursing, physician assistant studies, physical Implementing IPE within diverse therapy, occupational therapy, optometry, community settings forms an important dental hygiene, medical imaging and part of the student experience as well. therapeutics, and acupuncture. Within For example, since 2014, MCPHS has the School of Arts and Sciences, a wide worked with Colony Retirement Homes, a nonprofit corporation with five locations array of majors spans the healthcare spectrum, including premedical providing independent living apartments health studies, health sciences, health to seniors in Central Massachusetts. psychology, health humanities, and public Through the partnership, students from health. This gives MCPHS an incredible different disciplines work together to diversity of healthcare students, and interact with Colony residents, helping our curricula are built to encourage run health education fairs, presentations, them to collaborate and work together extensively and often. LATER THIS YEAR THE SCHOOL OF Collaboration, in fact, is part of PROFESSIONAL STUDIES WILL LAUNCH the MCPHS mission: to prepare AN ACADEMIC-CALIBER TELEHEALTH graduates to advance health CERTIFICATE AIMED AT WORKING worldwide through excellence, PROFESSIONALS ACROSS THE innovation, and collaboration in HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY. THE CERTIFICATE teaching, practice, scholarship, IS DESIGNED TO HELP PRACTITIONERS and research and to transform the COLLABORATE AND DEVELOP THEIR communities that they will serve. TELEMEDICINE SKILLS. M The organizational structure and governance of CIPE will support and events. Just this past March a unified strategy for advancing IPE students from six Schools—Acupuncture, goals even further. Crucial to the Center’s Dental Hygiene, Medical Imaging and mission will be advancing diversity, equity, Therapeutics, Nursing, Pharmacy, and and inclusion in healthcare, fostering Physical Therapy—presented to Colony interprofessional approaches to transform residents on “Staying Healthy During health disparities and improve healthcare the Pandemic” and “What to Expect for underserved populations. We are When Visiting a Clinic.” MCPHS also excited about the Center’s future because incorporates innovative IPE experiential implementing IPE to help patients of learning experiences within its academic all backgrounds is at the heart of what schools and on-site clinics and centers: MCPHS does. M the School of Optometry’s Eye and Vision Center; the Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene’s clinic; the New England School of Acupuncture’s treatment center; and the School of Physical Therapy’s Balance, Movement, and Wellness Center. And health profession students participate GOOD NEWS FOR in team-based immersion experiences MCPHS STUDENTS: in clinical rotations, internships, and THE UNIVERSITY field experiences with our affiliate OFFERS PROGRAMS organizations, gaining real-world FOR SIX OF THE TOP experience working in collaborative care teams. 20 BEST HEALTHCARE Perhaps nowhere is the MCPHS commitment to IPE more apparent than in the breadth of programs we offer. The University’s catalog includes more than
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