| A team representing MUSC, with significant contributions from CHP participants, recently won 2nd place and a $3,000 scholarship in the finals of the 2006-07 National Clinician Administrator Relationship Improvement Organization, or CLARION Competition, held in Minneapolis, MN on April 14th. Virginia Commonwealth University took first place and Mayo Clinic placed third.
| National Clarion winners:
Aaron Embry, from left,
Karen Hembree Spry,
Manasi Sinhua and Robbie Hendry. | CLARION is a student-driven, faculty-supported program created in 2000 at the University of Minnesota that supports interprofessional experiences among its health professions students. The competition is designed to promote the values of teamwork, |
leadership, organization and good communication skills as keys to building effective health care teams for the future, and derives its origins from the emphasis placed on interprofessional education in healthcare disciplines. Tony Chipas, Program Director of the CHP Anesthesia for Nurses, was instrumental in bringing the CLARION competition to the MUSC campus. Brie Dunn (dunnb@musc.edu) from the College of Pharmacy was responsible for organizing the local competition. The campus-wide finals were held on November 16, 2006 and the interprofessional team of Aaron Embry (Health Professions); Robert Hendry (Medicine); Manasi Sinha (Medicine); Karen Spry (Pharmacy) won a $3,000 first place scholarship award over three other teams and the right to represent MUSC in the national competition. Maralynne Mitcham, Ph.D., (Health Professions) served as the team’s faculty advisor. As Tony Chipas told The Catalyst in November, “CLARION can be considered the capstone among interprofessional education projects on campus. It involves teams of students from different colleges who learn to work together and compete for the benefit of the team and not each other. It’s not a far cry from the realities seen in actual health care teams.”
CHP is proud of the roles played by Aaron Embry, Maralynne Mitcham, and Tony Chipas. This winning effort reflects positively for the college and lays a solid foundation for future success with the competition at the local and national levels. To read more click here. |
