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WINTER/SPRING STUDENTS ACROSS CAMPUS EMBRACE COLLABORATION E BY BR EN N A DEUTCH M AN 8 ight years ago a small group of dental and medical students came together to collaborate and learn from one another around the theme of team-based care. Fast forward to 2014 - that small group has grown to include the majority of the Anschutz Medical Campus health professional students. Now, physician assistant, nursing, pharmacy, CU Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences medical and dental students work together in the dental clinics as part of the dental school's Frontier Center. Funded by Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation, the Frontier Center's primary objective is to "continue to catalyze changes and create collaborations between dentistry, primary care and pharmacy that will enhance patient care." The integration of pharmacy students into other practices is important in their longitudinal experiential training. "These students are in their third year and are almost completely done with all the didactic learning. They are strong on skills and knowledge, and weaker on clinical experience," says Assistant Director of Experiential Programs Wes Nuffer, PharmD. According to Dr. Nuffer, "this program challenges them to step into a different clinic environment with no other pharmacy representative there as their safety net. They need to represent the profession of pharmacy and begin to learn how they can complement other professions, as well as gain a better appreciation for other practitioners' scope of practice." The integration of these students with dental medicine has been a tremendous learning experience for the pharmacy students. At first glance, students question just how much overlap there is between pharmacy and dentistry, only to discover a wealth of learning that can occur from the dental profession as well as teaching that the pharmacy students can provide to dental students. Whether the pharmacy student is doing a medication profile review, screening for

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