Open AccessFostering Interprofessional Education Through a Multidisciplinary, Community-Based Pandemic Mass Vaccination Exercise
Author(s) -
Annette Hays,
Christopher A. Schriever,
John P. Rudzinski,
Janet L. Lynch,
Ellen Genrich,
Allison E. Schriever
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2017.304240
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , pandemic , vaccination , medicine , health care , family medicine , interprofessional education , multidisciplinary approach , population , gerontology , environmental health , nursing , covid-19 , disease , political science , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , immunology
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.