Third-year pharmacy students performing clinical rotations in Portland, or fourth-year students on rural rotation near Medford, will have the opportunity to participate in an innovative new interprofessional project. The Interprofessional Care Access Network (I-CAN) is a 3-year grant project funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The purpose of I-CAN is to create a collaborative model for clinical practice and education, while enhancing the health care experience, improving population health outcomes, and reducing health care costs for Oregon’s disadvantaged and underserved individuals, families, and populations. The project builds collaboration between academic programs, community service organizations, and health care agencies by forming interprofessional teams of students performing clinical placements, including nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry. The project is sustainable and scalable, and will grow over the grant period to serve as a statewide model for interprofessional health care for underserved populations in an evolving delivery system and for training effective interprofessional care teams.
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