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Annette Hays1, Christopher Schriever1, John Rudzinski1
1Annette Hays, Christopher Schriever, and Allison Schriever are with the College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Rockford. John Rudzinski is with the College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Rockford. Janet L. Lynch is with Sauk Valley Community College. Ellen Genrich is with the Boone County Health Department.
Abstract:
We expanded health care services to economically disadvantaged individuals in an interprofessional, student-driven vaccination effort that also served as a pandemic planning drill. Health care professional students from colleges in and around Rockford, Illinois participated in implementing a mass vaccination event from 2011 to 2014 that targeted the underserved population. There was a 459% increase in total vaccinations administered to at-risk patients from year 1 to year 4. This interprofessional health care student-driven effort expanded medical service to disadvantaged individuals.
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