Students Seek Health Care Solutions Through Interprofessional Teams

Professor Bruce Mueller, microphone in hand, sounds and acts a bit like a game show host as he moves about the room engaging with students seated in small teams.

"Did no other groups assess nutrition?" his exuberant voice resounds through the Couzens Hall classroom on a recent Wednesday. "We have a winner over here!"

Over and over Mueller, professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Pharmacy, and his teaching partner, Jennifer Stojan, assistant professor of internal medicine and of pediatrics and communicable diseases in the Medical School, probe teams of students representing five health disciplines: medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and social work.

Read full article here: The University Record

Watch video highlights from the class here: Michigan's World Class: The Future of Health Care - Multiple Disciplines Working Together