Summer: Rutgers- Interprofessional Practice and Communication in Healthcare, in the U.S. and Greece
The Program
10-day International Summer School in Greece for healthcare professionals.
This International Summer School in Greece is designed for healthcare professionals in training or who are already practicing in clinical settings, as well as graduate students and professionals with backgrounds and expertise in health-related professions. This 10-day International Summer School in Greece, will bring together graduate students and working professionals across a variety of health and healthcare-related disciplines.
Program Locations
Greece
Alexandroupolis
All program activities will take place in the city of Alexandroupolis with one side trip to the island of Samothrace. Both are in northeastern Greece.
Academics
Program learning objectives are below. Students should speak with their academic advisor about how this may count towards their program.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of the program, participants should be able to:
- Describe established models of interprofessional practice, communication, and healthcare.
- Apply approaches previously tested to improve interprofessional team functioning and collaboration.
- Explain best practices and challenges in interprofessional practice and communication, across clinical and community/public health contexts.
- Discuss the role of culture in interprofessional practice, as well as the impact of differences in applicable regulatory and policy contexts (with an emphasis on comparisons across the U.S. and Greece, and the U.S. and the European Union).
This 10-day International Summer School in Greece, will bring together graduate students and working professionals across a variety of health and healthcare-related disciplines who are interested in:
- Learning about established models of interprofessional practice, communication, and healthcare.
- Applying approaches tested to improve interprofessional team functioning and collaboration.
- Investigating best practices and challenges in interprofessional practice and communication, across clinical and community/public health contexts.
- Examining the role of culture in interprofessional practice, as well as the impact of differences in applicable regulatory and policy contexts (with an emphasis on comparisons across the U.S. and Greece, and the U.S. and the European Union).
- Working with peers from across professions to advance knowledge and skills in interprofessional communication and practices.
- Collaborating with an interprofessional team of faculty from the U.S. and Greece.
Housing and Meals
Faculty and students will stay in a hotel. Each student will share a room with a fellow participant. Breakfast will be provided in the hotel. Program lunches and 2 dinners will be provided. Costs for travel for program field trips are covered.
Scholarships
Faculty Leaders
Dr. Matsaganis is an Associate Professor in SC&I’s Department of Communication, and Area Coordinator of the Ph.D. program. His research focuses on therole of communication as a determinant of health disparities in urban communities, and on how the wellbeing of neighborhoods can be transformed through communication-centered interventions. In this context, he also investigates how ethnic media can serve critical information needs—including health needs—of immigrant and ethnic communities in the digital age. In 2018, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Athens, Greece; he continues to conduct research in Greece.
Dr. Touger-Decker is a Professor and the SHP Associate Dean of Global Affairs and faculty in the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine. She is a registered dietitian, internationally recognized for her expertise and leadership in nutrition and oral health/dental education, and dietetics education. Her research has explored diet/nutrition and orofacial pain, tooth loss, and head and neck cancers and nutrition focused physical exam practices and advanced training of dietitians. She has worked with academic institutions in Greece, Japan, Israel, Malaysia, and Tanzania.
Dr. James Scott Parrott has over 30 years of experience working as a methodological and statistical consultant both within and outside the university setting in such areas as medical and healthcare research, veterans health, public health, evidence-based medicine, childhood obesity, urban poverty, and international aid.
His recent work focuses on evidence synthesis methods and statistical modeling of intervention and outcome and evaluation studies. He has worked on several rehabilitation, behavioral health, epidemiological and clinical trial projects. For the past fifteen years, he has worked as a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey with appointments in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the School of Public Health.
Professor Yeh earned her M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies from the joint Seton Hall University/UMDNJ Physician Assistant Program. She is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in the Department of Interdisciplinary Healthcare Studies at Rosalind Franklin University in Chicago, Il. Her dissertation focus is on interprofessional communication, team science, crisis resource management, and collective resilience. She has expertise in interprofessional education, is a TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer, a certified simulationist specializing in interprofessional high fidelity simulation for healthcare students, including physician assistant, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and physical therapy, and leads standardized patient integration into simulation. Professor Yeh is a recognized expert at Rutgers University in simulation, debriefing, standardized patient integration, TeamSTEPPS, and interprofessional education.