Medical, physician assistant and family nurse practitioner students and faculty work together in clinical rotations and learn together in the classroom.
Medical, physician assistant and family nurse practitioner students and faculty work together in clinical rotations and learn together in the classroom.

Students experience power of teams

Much like a rope is joined together by the interweaving of strands, health care outcomes strengthen when teams work together with a shared goal, enabling all members of the health care team to work to their fullest potential. Helping students experience comprehensive teamwork is the goal of the SPLICE research project. Faculty, students and providers are two years into a five-year System-transforming, Patient-centered Longitudinal Interprofessional Community-based Education (SPLICE) initiative driven by a collaboration between the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and UC Davis School of Medicine.

“We hope to build the skills and confidence of these students before they enter practice,” says Debra Bakerjian, associate adjunct professor and co-investigator. “Then we will maintain contact with them, once in practice, to see how these principles play out in their real world setting post graduation.”