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Wisconsin Express
Participants in Wisconsin Express explore intercultural and interprofessional issues they will encounter as future health care professionals. The goal of the program is to encourage students, as they begin their professional careers, to develop personal and group strategies to respond to the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly diverse healthcare system and society at large. Wisconsin Express promotes and advances this goal for one week every year, one student group, in one community at a time, in selected sites throughout the state.
Themes: Wisconsin Express 2011
1. Culture and Diversity
2. Regional Healthcare Resources and Challenges
3. Interprofessional Teams and Teamwork
Objectives: Wisconsin Express 2011
1. Enhance awareness of individual and collective cultural identity and diversity
2. Learn about strategies to confront health care disparities
3. Observe various versions of collaboration and teamwork in healthcare
Who can participate?
Students enrolled in health professions programs throughout Wisconsin's public and private colleges and universities are welcome. In the past, participants have come from physical therapy, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, nutritional science, social work, physician assistant programs and others. In 2009, there were 110 applicants for 60 spots.
What is a Wisconsin Express community site?
Sites are rural and urban medically underserved communities located around the state.
When does the program take place?
Typically the program runs the last week of May.
What does the program cost?
Although the Wisconsin AHEC covers the majority of the cost of your participation, we do ask each participant to pay a nominal fee (the 2009 fee was $50). Housing is provided by AHEC and is typically shared with another participant.
For more information, please contact the Wisconsin AHEC program office at 608-262-7237. Mary Carson Bumann, mbumann@wisc.edu
Or check the Wisconsin AHEC program office website: www.ahec.wisc.edu
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