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 health 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.
