Post on 25-Dec-2015
Teaching in a CHCEncouraging Health Careers
Strengthening RecruitingImproving Retention
Part Time / Summers Three to Five Students Returns for College Summers
High School Students
After High School:◦ 2 Pre Med◦ 2 Nursing School◦ 2 Dental Assistants / Hygiene **◦ 2 Health Care Administration*◦ 1 Planning Lab or PA or Med School
Our High School Students
From Franklin Pierce University West Lebanon, New Hampshire
Brief Introductory Visits
Five Week Clerkships *
PA Students
Students from Tufts Dental School◦ Five Weeks, Eight Rotations
◦ Dental Residents from UVM * Two Five Days a Week *** *******************************“I have done more in my five weeks at Plainfield than I have done in the past four years at dental school”
Dental Teaching
“Doctoring in Vermont”: Five half days, twice
Third and Fourth Year Rotations◦ UVM, UCSF, Harvard◦ Student Projects for THC Medical StaffSummer Research:
ALS, Pharmacy Compliance, Anxiety
Medical Students
All Teach / All Evaluate Students Included in:
◦ Daily Check Off◦ Monthly General Staff Meeting◦ Weekly One Hour Class and Half Hour Admin.◦ Monthly Pathology Conference◦ Articles / Literature Exchange
Team Teaching
Contrasts with Tertiary Center:◦ Formal Friendly◦ Competitive Collaborative◦ Urban Rural◦ Episodic Continuing◦ Humorless Fun◦ Uptight Relaxed◦ Cold Warm◦ Austere Welcoming
What Student Say We Offer
That you will learn every day, not just in school
Some topics not well covered at school are well taught at THC (Magnesium, Vitamin D,
Depression, Partial Complex Seizures) That competence can survive and thrive in
isolation from the academic center That open warmth and compassion are OK That humor can be an important tool in care
What They Have Learned:
*That knowing everything is not what it is about, rather that we can check, consult, or call
*That we can tolerate some ambiguity and delay some decisions in a thoughtful sequence
*To fix what is evident and then see what’s left * “Pursue if Persists” – every answer is not needed
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*That our most important tools are our selves: ourconviction, persuasiveness, caring, and knowledge
What We Have Taught:
After Clerkships Many Students Stay in TouchHaving Become Part of our Family: emails, visits
We are often asked to write letters of recommendation
Doctoring in Vermont Every Wednesday for a Year
? Future THC Medical Staff *
Building Relationships
Teaching is Rewarding Teaching Builds Competence Opportunity to Teach Attracts Veteran
Dentists Student Feedback is Very Encouraging:
◦ “THC really is Health Care the Way it Ought to Be”
********************************************** “This has been the best day of my life”
Retention