Interprofessional Collaboration for Community Outreach Project to Educate Philadelphia Youth Regarding HIV/AIDS Prevention, Myths, and Truths through Sport
Start Date
5-19-2012 1:30 PM
End Date
5-19-2012 1:45 PM
Description
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the creation of an education program for teenage students focusing on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention through the use of sports and interactive games in an interprofessional setting.
Facing HIV/AIDS in the Community Through Sport (FACTS) is a program created by a medical student and a physical therapy student after being named Albert Schweitzer Fellows. They are from two different institutions in the Philadelphia Area and sought guidance from The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship’s Greater Philadelphia Program Director as well as a nursing faculty member who as an adult nurse practitioner specializes in HIV/AIDS research and treatment. Various disciplines were instrumental in crafting this program.
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship is a national leadership development program where multidisciplinary health professional students develop projects to address social determinants of health in their community. Through the Fellowship, students have monthly interprofessional meetings with other Fellows in the same branch (Greater Philadelphia Area) consisting of students from medicine, physical therapy, pharmacy, public health, population health, dentistry, and nursing from greater than 5 different universities. Each Fellow is responsible for identifying a speaker for various topics including health literacy, creation of non-for-profit multidisciplinary health clinics, traveling health-care, etc. for monthly seminars. Following the talk, Fellows discuss challenges from each person’s community outreach project and offer ideas for improvement.
To date, two cohorts have gone through the FACTS curriculum: one high-school group and one middle-school group. Students expressed interest in learning about HIV/AIDS and discussing stigmas associated with the disease. Despite the intensity of the topic, students were candid throughout the experience. They participated in interactive games such as dodge ball and a variation of “tag” focused on demonstrating concepts related to the disease.
This paper will be of interest to those implementing interprofessional learning experiences mediated through community outreach programs.
Learning Objectives: Following listening to this paper, attendees will be able to:
- Understand how to incorporate IPE in a functional community outreach setting.
- Understand the benefits of interprofessional meetings to fuel community projects so that members may learn how to utilize the diversity of other professionals’ advice in order to grow individual outreach projects.
Interprofessional Collaboration for Community Outreach Project to Educate Philadelphia Youth Regarding HIV/AIDS Prevention, Myths, and Truths through Sport
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the creation of an education program for teenage students focusing on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention through the use of sports and interactive games in an interprofessional setting.
Facing HIV/AIDS in the Community Through Sport (FACTS) is a program created by a medical student and a physical therapy student after being named Albert Schweitzer Fellows. They are from two different institutions in the Philadelphia Area and sought guidance from The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship’s Greater Philadelphia Program Director as well as a nursing faculty member who as an adult nurse practitioner specializes in HIV/AIDS research and treatment. Various disciplines were instrumental in crafting this program.
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship is a national leadership development program where multidisciplinary health professional students develop projects to address social determinants of health in their community. Through the Fellowship, students have monthly interprofessional meetings with other Fellows in the same branch (Greater Philadelphia Area) consisting of students from medicine, physical therapy, pharmacy, public health, population health, dentistry, and nursing from greater than 5 different universities. Each Fellow is responsible for identifying a speaker for various topics including health literacy, creation of non-for-profit multidisciplinary health clinics, traveling health-care, etc. for monthly seminars. Following the talk, Fellows discuss challenges from each person’s community outreach project and offer ideas for improvement.
To date, two cohorts have gone through the FACTS curriculum: one high-school group and one middle-school group. Students expressed interest in learning about HIV/AIDS and discussing stigmas associated with the disease. Despite the intensity of the topic, students were candid throughout the experience. They participated in interactive games such as dodge ball and a variation of “tag” focused on demonstrating concepts related to the disease.
This paper will be of interest to those implementing interprofessional learning experiences mediated through community outreach programs.
Learning Objectives: Following listening to this paper, attendees will be able to:
- Understand how to incorporate IPE in a functional community outreach setting.
- Understand the benefits of interprofessional meetings to fuel community projects so that members may learn how to utilize the diversity of other professionals’ advice in order to grow individual outreach projects.
