Washington, D.C. - The Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) announced that its fourth annual Regional Summit will take place across the country on May 23, 2024. The theme of the 2024 Summit, “Collaboration in Action - Engaging to Build Readiness for Interprofessional Clinical Practice,” aims to identify new strategies for collaboration between the healthcare industry and academic partners. ASAHP’s Regional Summits bring together academic leaders, faculty and health care providers from a variety of professional roles, disciplines, and organizations to share knowledge and best practices with the goal of improving the patient care experience and health outcomes as well as addressing clinician well-being, and health equity.
Held in-person concurrently at six member institution-hosted regional “Hub” locations, the Summits culminate in a virtual “Harvest” session between all regional Hub participants. The Harvest session allows for an engaging national-level conversation aimed at creating a shared framework and specific strategies for improving interprofessional learning experiences, ultimately with the goal of providing better patient outcomes.
“Past Regional Summits have taught us that putting academic and clinical stakeholders in the same room to have focused discussions about how to solve healthcare issues has tremendous value,” said ASAHP President Dr. Craig R. Jackson, MSW, JD, FASAHP, Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions at Loma Linda University. “By giving clinicians a chance to voice their needs and expectations, ASAHP institutions can improve and modify their health professions programs which translates into better clinical readiness.”
Dr. Anthony Breitbach, Vice Dean, Doisy College of Health Sciences at Saint Louis University who spearheaded the Regional Summits initiative added, “We use an innovative learning model which is called the ‘ASAHP Collaborative Stakeholder Engagement Model’ to execute these Regional Summits and share key takeaways in order to bridge the gap between classrooms and the real world.” This model also captures dialogue that occurs among the participants which are analyzed for key themes and published in peer-reviewed journals with papers from 2019 and 2022 in print and 2023 in review.
The in-person Regional Summits will take place on Thursday, May 23, 2024 from 12:00 Noon - 5 pm (ET)/11:00 am - 4:00 pm (CT)/10:00 am - 3:00 pm (MT) at the following six Hub site locations:
Birmingham, AL, Hub: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Galveston, TX, Hub: UT Medical Branch (UTMB), UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and UT Health San Antonio
Nutley, NJ Hub: Seton Hall University
Salt Lake City, UT, Hub: University of Utah and Weber State University
Orlando, FL, Hub: University of Central Florida
Sioux Falls, SD, Hub: University of South Dakota
Several healthcare hospital systems throughout the U.S will continue their participation at each of these Hub locations again this year.
ASAHP members and industry partners who are interested in participating may register here. The deadline for advance registration is May 19th and registration is limited.
About ASAHP
The Association of School Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) is a national professional organization of 130 universities and employers focused on critical issues affecting health professions education. ASAHP’s mission is to advance health professions education and discovery through interprofessional collaboration, leadership, excellence, and innovation. As much as 60% of the U.S. healthcare workforce may be classified as ‘health professions’ which are distinct from medicine, nursing, and dentistry, yet equally vital to the health and wellbeing of our society.)
Contact:
Kristen Truong
kristen@asahp.org
Director of Public Affairs
ASAHP