Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Learning Collaborative 2018-2019

Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Learning Collaborative

Sponsored by the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, Primary Care Progress (PCP), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), National Academies of Practices (NAP), Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), and American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Student Hotspotting is an initiative of the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs and is administered by the Camden Coalition.
If you have any questions, please contact studenthotspotting@camdenhealth.org
Below is the full application as a read only PDF
Rolling Admission

Rolling Admission Begins on January 29th, 2018
You are invited to submit an application to become a hotspotter as part of the Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Learning Collaborative! As a Student Hotspotter, you will assemble an interprofessional team of students to collaboratively gain insight into the root causes that lead some patients to have repeat emergency room visits and hospital admissions and analyze how this additional utilization might have been avoided. You will work with individuals with high utilization of the hospital within your community to understand their unique circumstances and help connect them with community resources that could lead to better health outcomes. Through participation in the six-month learning collaborative, you will receive in-depth training on trauma informed care, social correlates of health, team-building, communication, advocacy and more to help you improve our care delivery systems both now and in the future.

We are excited to have partnered with four institutions across the nation to expand the reach of the Student Hotspotting:
1. Thomas Jefferson University – Philadelphia, PA
2. Samuel Merritt University – Oakland, CA
3. University of Utah – Salt Lake City, UT
4. Southern Illinois University – Springfield, IL
You will be placed at one of these four hubs based off of indicated preference on this application. Your hub will be responsible for hosting the kick-off and wrap-up events, and for running the daily programmatic operations of the program, while the Camden Coalition will provide programmatic and curriculum oversight. Although your indicated preference will be heavily weighted in assigning your placement, please note that we cannot guarantee top preference to all applicants.
Program Expectations

Before applying, applicants must:
- Create an interprofessional team of 4-6 students (from such fields as nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, medicine, dentistry, social work, business, etc.). Greater interprofessional diversity strengthens your application.
- Each team should designate at least one physician, one nurse, and one clinical social worker to serve as project advisors for the team. It is recommended, however not required, that one or more advisors serve as faculty members at an institution involved in the project. Teams are welcome to include additional project advisors at their discretion.
During the program, accepted teams will be expected to:
- Work with the clinic/hospital to select 3-4 patients who frequently visit the ED and/or are admitted to the hospital, then obtain patient consent to work with them for six months through home visits, accompaniment to doctor visits, and care coordination.
- Identify potential interventions to propose to the hospital/clinic that might improve the patient’s ability to access needed care and services outside the hospital or emergency room.
- Commit to spending 5-10 hours per week on the project.
- Assist the patients with appointments and better understanding their healthcare needs.
- Document patient encounters in a de-identified database provided by the Camden Coalition; this information will be used for evaluation purposes, and is integral to the program’s continued growth and success.
- Participate in a six-month learning collaborative hosted by the Camden Coalition that includes:
  - Kick-Off meeting, September 2018 at one of the hotspotting hubs across the nation (locations above).
  - Monthly Skills Labs, case conferences, mentoring, and a curriculum learning guide that will begin in October 2018.
  - Regularly participating in online discussions between calls.
  - Wrap-Up meeting March 2019, at your assigned hotspotting hub (locations above).
- All available members of the student team and at least one faculty advisor are expected to attend both the kick-off and wrap-up meetings.
- Submit a final project summarizing the project and lessons learned.
Through the program, students will learn to:
- Work as a team to learn about the patients’ challenges in improving their health and how that could be impacting their health care utilization and outcomes.
- Develop skills in team-building, coaching and feedback and use these skills with both patients and colleagues.
- Ask tough questions such as: What do these patients have in common? What role do social determinants of health play in their care needs? Where does the healthcare system fail them? How could care for these patients be improved? Are these situations preventable?
- Learn about the financial, legal and social systems that impact your patient’s care and the various points of leverage to affect change in those systems.
- Learn to overcome institutional barriers related to obtaining medical records, claims data, patient consent, and similar quality improvement efforts.
Eligibility:
- Each student team must have at least one licensed physician, one licensed nurse and one licensed clinical social worker faculty advisor assigned to the project.
- Schools should submit a separate application for each team they wish to have participate. See above for the criteria on team composition.
Fees:
- Accepted schools will be required to pay $4,000 to the Camden Coalition for event and programmatic costs for their first team; each additional team will require an extra $2,000.
- Schools are required to cover travel for all available team members and at least 1 faculty member per team to attend the Kick-off and Wrap-up meetings at one of the four identified hubs.
- It is recommended that schools provide student teams with a small budget for costs incurred as part of their work with patients (e.g. canes, pill boxes, etc.).
Application Guidelines:
- Use the enclosed application form. Type all text within the available space on the form.
- Attach the resumes of faculty and project advisors
- Proposals must be reviewed and approved by the medical school’s Associate Dean for Student Affairs or Associate/Vice Dean for Education and include his/her signature and letter of support.
- Applications with greater interprofessional diversity will be given preference.
Decisions:
- Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until April 26th, 2018. All notifications will be sent out by May 25th, 2018.

2018 HOTSPOTTING APPLICATION FORM
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Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Learning Collaborative

Rolling Admission

2018 HOTSPOTTING APPLICATION FORM

Contact Information Student Team Members (Maximum of 6):

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