Teaching in a CHCEncouraging Health Careers

Strengthening RecruitingImproving Retention

Part Time / Summers Three to Five Students Returns for College Summers

High School Students

After High School:◦ 2 Pre Med◦ 2 Nursing School◦ 2 Dental Assistants / Hygiene **◦ 2 Health Care Administration*◦ 1 Planning Lab or PA or Med School

Our High School Students

From Franklin Pierce University West Lebanon, New Hampshire

Brief Introductory Visits

Five Week Clerkships *

PA Students

Students from Tufts Dental School◦ Five Weeks, Eight Rotations

◦ Dental Residents from UVM * Two Five Days a Week *** *******************************“I have done more in my five weeks at Plainfield than I have done in the past four years at dental school”

Dental Teaching

“Doctoring in Vermont”: Five half days, twice

Third and Fourth Year Rotations◦ UVM, UCSF, Harvard◦ Student Projects for THC Medical StaffSummer Research:

ALS, Pharmacy Compliance, Anxiety

Medical Students

All Teach / All Evaluate Students Included in:

◦ Daily Check Off◦ Monthly General Staff Meeting◦ Weekly One Hour Class and Half Hour Admin.◦ Monthly Pathology Conference◦ Articles / Literature Exchange

Team Teaching

Contrasts with Tertiary Center:◦ Formal Friendly◦ Competitive Collaborative◦ Urban Rural◦ Episodic Continuing◦ Humorless Fun◦ Uptight Relaxed◦ Cold Warm◦ Austere Welcoming

What Student Say We Offer

That you will learn every day, not just in school

Some topics not well covered at school are well taught at THC (Magnesium, Vitamin D,

Depression, Partial Complex Seizures) That competence can survive and thrive in

isolation from the academic center That open warmth and compassion are OK That humor can be an important tool in care

What They Have Learned:

*That knowing everything is not what it is about, rather that we can check, consult, or call

*That we can tolerate some ambiguity and delay some decisions in a thoughtful sequence

*To fix what is evident and then see what’s left * “Pursue if Persists” – every answer is not needed

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*That our most important tools are our selves: ourconviction, persuasiveness, caring, and knowledge

What We Have Taught:

After Clerkships Many Students Stay in TouchHaving Become Part of our Family: emails, visits

We are often asked to write letters of recommendation

Doctoring in Vermont Every Wednesday for a Year

? Future THC Medical Staff *

Building Relationships

Teaching is Rewarding Teaching Builds Competence Opportunity to Teach Attracts Veteran

Dentists Student Feedback is Very Encouraging:

◦ “THC really is Health Care the Way it Ought to Be”

********************************************** “This has been the best day of my life”

Retention