5144.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral Session

How to Strengthen Student Learning Through Academic-Practice Partnerships

Academic-practice partnerships have become a method for enhancing the education of future public health professionals. These partnerships give students an opportunity to enhance their practice skills while interacting in a real-world environment with other health professionals and community members. This session will demonstrate the key factors in forming and sustaining academic-practice partnerships. Presenters will demonstrate the importance of using the partnership as a valuable teaching tool, as well as for strengthening the bonds between academic and private institutions and communities. Several key themes will be examined: such as identifying key curriculum components, strategies for successful collaborations, developing clear outcomes, and identifying challenges and facilitators of successful academic-practice partnerships. At the end of this session, participants will not only understand the importance of academic-practice linkages, but they will also know how to formulate, sustain and enhance a successful partnership.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: 1. Articulate the value and importance of academic-practice partnerships in public health education. 2. Identify key components of successful Academic-Practice partnerships and collaborations. 3. Identify strategies for building and maintaining strong academic practice linkages.
2:30 PMSchool of Public Health and Communicty Agencies Collaborate to Train Practitioners and Improve Population Health
Nathalie A. Bartle, EdD, Linda E. Lloyd, PhD, David J. Tollerud, MD, MPH, Augusta Villanueva, PhD
2:45 PMOutbreak Philadelphia: An interdisciplinary mock epidemic
Rita J. Lourie, MSN, RN, Nancy L. Rothman, EdD, RN, Carolyn Johnson, MD, MPH, David Barclay, MD, Ina L.S. Calligaro, PHMD
3:00 PMStrengthening academic-practice partnerships through the HRSA/ASPH fellowship
Kathryn M Herron, MPH, Lou K Brewer, RN, MPH, Hector Balcazar, PhD, Cristina Bejarano, MPH, Frank Cantu, MPA
3:15 PMCollaborating to enhance environmental health knowledge and experience among Baccalaureate nursing students
Daniel A. Hoffman, PhD, Jeanne A. Matthews, PhD, RN, Diane Downing, RN, MSN
3:30 PMPromoting health in the inner-city: An interdisciplinary academic-community partnership
Elise Papke, MPH, Rachel Metheny, Steve Jay, MD, Joan Henkle, DNS, Erin Weah, MPH Student
Sponsor:Academic Public Health Caucus
Cosponsors:Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Student Caucus; Association of Schools of Public Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA