Interprofessional Education: Health and Wellness Fair 2023

 

Hey all! As a part of the DPT curriculum here at UU, it is important for us to have interprofessional collaboration since that will be a very big part of our careers post graduation. Here on campus, we have physical therapy students, occupational therapy, nursing, recreation therapy, nutrition, and many others who all will be working in the healthcare field someday. As a part of the interprofessional collaboration here, we held a health and wellness fair! It gives each of us a chance to mingle with others in different health professions and allows us to understand each others’ roles more clearly. I had so much fun this year getting prepared for the event and spending time with my interprofessional group during the fair!

This year, my group’s topic was nutrition. We had a station set up with games (and prizes of course), a slide show, and a posterboard. We got a chance to meet with the members of our group and explain how the topic relates to our fields of study so we can learn more about one another. This is very important to me because most likely I will be working with many people in their fields as I progress into my career and I want to have a good understanding of what they do. This is important for our patients as well because we can all work together to provide the best, well rounded care possible. 

Some of the other topics for the event were food insecurity, yoga, balance, vital signs, suicide prevention, mindfulness, healthy sleep, stroke awareness, and EMS. It was so much fun walking around the fair to see what others did for their projects. One station had balance games where we learned about different assessments that are done to rate balance. We had to stand on one leg on a foam mat with a dome over our head to make balancing extremely difficult. I wasn’t able to do that test very long before I lost my balance! It was a lot of fun. Another station was giving away bags and snacks (and who doesn’t love snacks). 

Overall the interprofessional experience was so beneficial and gave us PT students a chance to make some new friends that maybe someday, we will be working right alongside. Events like this make it exciting to think about the future in our careers and give us such great practice on how to work in an interprofessional team!



Feel free to reach out at mmlazore@utica.edu if you have any questions regarding interprofessional education and how we run these types of events here at UU!



Goodbye for now, folks☺


Maryanne


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