Drury University Teams Up With Jordan Valley Community Health Center To Promote Patient-Centered Care

Students at a Springfield university are getting a chance to use their new skills to help a community that is under-insured.

Drury University and Jordan Valley Community Health Center are placing pre-health science students with health care professionals at the clinic.

Students will work side by side helping patients.

The goal of the Drury Health Service Corps is to help future professionals become patient-centered providers.

Edited from a press release from Drury University:

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 30, 2014 As entry into professional health and medical schools becomes more competitive, a new partnership between Drury and Jordan Valley Community Health Center (JVCHC) gives undergraduates the chance to experience and work in a real-world medical setting well before they take that next step in their academic careers.

The Drury Health Service Corps places pre-health sciences students inside the federally qualified health center in downtown Springfield to work alongside the medical staff and interact with patients. This gives them valuable and increasingly, essential volunteer experience in a real clinical setting. The work includes helping patients navigate the building and sign up for the online patient engagement portal, as well as assisting the JVCHC staff with a variety of customer-service related tasks.

VIDEO: Drury University Health Service Corps The Drury Health Service Corps seeks to go beyond a mere shadow internship and to truly place undergraduates in the midst of the patient-provider dynamic. It will help them cultivate the empathy, understanding and skills necessary to build relationships with the medically underserved, so that they are better prepared to become patient-centered health care providers in the future.

Medicine is certainly a people business and thats something medical schools are looking for individuals who are not only academically prepared but are able to go out and interact with people in a really positive way, says Dr. Beth Harville, assistant professor of biology and chemistry and director of Drurys pre-health sciences program.

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