Interprofessional learning community: Educating dietetic and other health profession students through an interdisciplinary, service-learning experience

Topics in Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-15

  Horacek, Tanya ^a   Brann, Lynn ^a   Erdman, Maria ^a   Middlemiss, Mary Ann ^a   Raj, Sudha ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietetics education; Interdisciplinary; Interprofessional education; Learning community; Service learning

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIETETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FAMILY STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; NURSING; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WORK; STUDENT; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

EID: 68549099789     PISSN: 08835691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TIN.0b013e3181977fae     Document Type: Review

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