An interdisciplinary team of health care students from Wichita State University and its collaborative partner, the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, has taken third place in the national annual CLARION (Clinician/Administrator Relationship Improvement Organization) competition.
The WSU College of Health Professions is hosting a celebration and debriefing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 12, according to Lyn Goldberg, associate professor, College of Health Professions. It is open to the public, she said.
The annual April competition brings together students from multiple disciplines and focuses them on the provision of health care that is safe, timely, equitable, patient-centered, effective and efficient. Those are the six recommendations advocated by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Students work in interprofessional teams at their respective universities to problem-solve a seminal event. Each annual event is developed by a panel of external faculty. The event is fictitious but is compiled from actual occurrences that resulted in the unexpected death or serious physical or psychological injury to an individual and his/her family or caregivers.
Each team then travels to the University of Minnesota for the national competition where team members give a 20-minute presentation of their solutions. They then field questions from the panel of judges for 10 minutes.
The team sent by Wichita State was unique in that it represented the collaborative efforts of WSU and the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, said Goldberg.
WSU team members were Jagadeesh (Jag) Rajagopalan, doctoral student in communication sciences and disorders; Beverly Plapp, graduate student in nursing; Amber Wagnon, graduate student in nursing; and Tanya Kajese, fourth year student in medicine. They were supported by Jamie Carlson, communication sciences and disorders, and Lisa Hammerschmidt, Allison Ast and QuyChi Li, students from KUSM-W, and faculty mentors Jenni Koontz, KUSM-W, and Lyn Goldberg, CSD.
Team members receive scholarship money as well as national recognition for their insightful and important work.
