Dora Mills leads retreat at meeting of Maine Primary Care Association

Dora Anne Mills, M.D., M.P.H., vice president for Clinical Affairs, led a three-hour discussion and retreat on interprofessional collaborative team-based practice with the medical and dental directors of Maine's community health centers at the annual meeting of the Maine Primary Care Association, held in Bar Harbor, Maine, on October 23, 2013.

After presenting what UNE is doing to educate health professional students in the competencies of interprofessional team-based practice, Mills led a discussion with the directors about how these competencies and strategies apply to their own practices, using a variety of scenarios and questions. Joining her was Ronald Chenette, D.M.D., M.P.H., associate clinical professor of UNE's College of Dental Medicine.
 

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