title: Engagement studios: students and communities working to address the determinants of health.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This article presents an innovative model for interprofessional community-oriented learning. The Engagement Studios model involves a partnership between community organizations and students as equal partners in conversations and activities aimed at addressing issues of common concern as they relate to the social determinants of health.
  
  
  METHODS
  Interprofessional teams of students from health and non-health disciplines work with community partners to identify priority community issues and explore potential solutions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The student teams work with a particular community organization, combining their unique disciplinary perspectives to develop a project proposal, which addresses the community issues that have been jointly identified. Approved proposals receive a small budget to implement the project.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this paper we present the Engagement Studios model and share lessons learned from a pilot of this educational initiative.
authors.forename: Lesley
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bainbridge
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grossman
authors.forename: Shafik
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dharamsi
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.affiliation: Project Manager, College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Wood
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D012946:Social Welfare; D013336:Students, Health Occupations