Access and Community Impact

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To achieve better health outcomes and ensure an optimal patient experience, the clinical site develops, assesses, and monitors its strategies and efforts to create an inclusive environment focused on collaboration, respect and improving interprofessional learning. The optimal clinical learning environment commits to strategies, policies, procedures, and practices that are equitable and inclusive of all individuals, regardless of their race, ethnicity, national origin, color, culture, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, genetic identity, age, ability, religion, veteran status, and other personal characteristics. 

 

Interprofessional education and learning improves team based learning and patient care which diversifies various perspectives and enhances a longer-term impact on future relationships within the healthcare environment.  

 

The clinical learning environment fosters an environment that addresses the unique needs of every patient, enhances the learner experience, and eliminates disparities in quality of care.

 

• Pathway 1: Clinical learning environment ensures all members of the clinical care team and patients are treated with respect to optimize learning and patient care. 
• Pathway 2: Clinical learning environment creates and maintains interprofessional education and training and facilitates learning on patients from diverse backgrounds with a wide variety of clinical presentations and healthcare needs.
• Pathway 3: Clinical learning environment maintains the necessary learning and wellness support systems to ensure learners have the support and tools to succeed.
• Pathway 4: Clinical learning environment fosters an environment that allows for diversity of thought and experiences among the clinical care team to optimize learning and patient care.
• Pathway 5: Clinical learning environment monitors the effectiveness and outcomes of its efforts to integrate and achieve an inclusive environment focused on collaboration and respect.