Inter-professional Student Hot Spotting Mini-Grant Project learning collaborative.

The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers (CCHP), Primary Care Progress (PCP), and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) are collaborating again on the Hotspotting Mini-Grant Project after its first successful year. The initiative gives interdisciplinary teams of health professions students an unparalleled hands-on opportunity to learn and practice an innovative model of health care coordination called hotspotting. Find more information about the project here. 

Hot Spotting & PHSU

A total 10 new schools were selected to participate in the kick off event, July 11, 2015 in Camden, New Jersey, with the rest of last year universities. A total of 100 students joined that evening and got the chance to meet Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the “hotspotting,” and to learn about team building skills. This years initiative is focus on team work and sharing each other stories (“stories matter”). It is important for us to understand the work and success of the project will be based on the relationship with build with patients but also as a team.

Second year medical student Kimberly Feliberti, with the support of Ponce Health Science University and NEED’s Educational Foundation, put together an inter-professional team of students and a faculty advisor to write the team’s proposal and get the academic institution approval for the matching funds. Outstanding students were selected from three institutions (Ponce Health Sciences University students were chosen from the Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health Colleges). The group reached out to Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (choosing a social work student) and Inter American University of Puerto Rico (choosing a nursing student) in efforts to complete the inter-disciplinary team. Kimberly Feliberti eagerly chose Dr. Malynie Blanco as their advisor as she admires her being a “knowledgeable and compromised professional to primary care.” An affiliation was established with NEEDS Educational Foundation, a nonprofit organization who actively provides services to super utilizers in Puerto Rico. NEEDS will be providing interdisciplinary mentoring and educational coaching through the next six months. Even though the group had a time restraint of two weeks to meet the deadline, they were able to successfully build the team and submit the application.