The Student Health Outreach for Wellness (SHOW) Community Initiative unites students, faculty, and clinical preceptors in a mission to provide holistic, client-centered services using interprofessional team-based care to vulnerable populations. Through all of SHOW’s interprofessional community projects and programs, students, faculty and community providers share responsibility for achieving healt
h outcomes and improving education while reducing cost and adding value in health care delivery and education. Students, faculty, and clinical preceptors come from diverse backgrounds – ranging from nursing, recreational therapy, social work, nutrition, medicine, occupational therapy, speech pathology, and physical therapy – to business, journalism, computer science, and others. SHOW has become a recognized leader in interprofessional practice and learning, contributing outcomes on a national level via participating in the National Center for Education and Practice Nexus Innovations Incubator, first as a pioneer project, then as an Accelerating Interprofessional Practice into Community Settings grant recipient, and currently as a National Center “Founding Partner.” Founded in 2013 as Arizona's first tri-university student run free clinic, SHOW has moved to a "clinic without walls" model where SHOW’s community-engaged experiential learning courses offer students the opportunity to actively engage in real-world leadership and interprofessional education and practice experiences, while providing a valuable service to vulnerable individuals in the local community through outreach programs and events.
