Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) was recently awarded several grants totaling over $4.1 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund programs related to interprofessional education, predoctoral training, and patient simulation.
To help address the shortage of primary care physicians and the challenges they face working in an interprofessional health care environment, NSU-COM was awarded a five-year, $2.3 million dollar grant to build upon the college’s mission to “train primary care health practitioners in an interdisciplinary setting with an emphasis on medically underserved areas.”
NSU-COM was awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant to provide medical students with the necessary knowledge and skills to become practitioners that are prepared to care for homeless individuals of all ages.
A one-year, $247,500 Health Information Technology Grant will be utilized to establish a culture of utilizing human simulators to enhance medical education and to concurrently integrate and expand the use of electronic medical records in case scenarios with the simulators/robotic mannequins within the college and other NSU Health Professions Division (HPD) programs.
