Past Initiatives

Vaccination as a Team Sport

Date: Oct. 5, 2020

This training gave students a way to understand the critical role of the interprofessional team in addressing vaccine hesitancy, learn effective communication strategies to talk with your future patients about vaccines and hear the latest information about COVID-19 vaccines.

• Vaccination as a Team Sport Recording
• Vaccination as a Team Sport Flyer
• Vaccination as a Team Sport Slides

Compassion Fatigue Webinar

Date: June 23, 2020

This training provided health care professionals an opportunity to learn important strategies that support mental health and resilience.

• Compassion Fatigue Recording 
• Compassion Fatigue Flyer
• Compassion Fatigue Slides

Virtual 5K

Going the Social Distance Virtual 5K

Ended May 9.

Increasing Resilience and Well-Being Workshop

Date: April 29, 2020

As a response to the demands COVID-19 put on health care professionals, this training provided an opportunity to strengthen resilience and reduce caregiver fatigue by teaching self-care strategies that support mental health and well-being.

• Resilience Workshop Recording
• Resilience Workshop Flyer
• Resilience Workshop Slides 

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Drive

Dates: April 6-24

With support from North Idaho AHEC, Idaho WWAMI Medical Education Program students organized a PPE supply drive to help hospitals, clinics and first responders around Moscow, Pullman and surrounding areas. The students called 150 small medical clinics, dental and veterinary offices, construction companies and research labs to round up excess PPE inventory. In addition, WWAMI students helped coordinate an online inventory survey and staffed a drop-off point on campus where the local community to safely donate materials.

Materials donated were:

• 90 surgical masks
• 170 N95 masks
• 2,232 gloves (in varying sizes)
• 2 goggles
• 1 face shield