Bridges to Excellence is an educational activity with a transdisciplinary approach to learning for healthcare providers at UC Davis Health. This educational activity is open to all healthcare providers at UC Davis Health who wish to use their professional leave (PL) time to learn about a discipline, unit, care area, or process different from their current work environment while earning continuing education credit.
This activity is self-paced and self-directed. Participants of this activity identify a unit, care area, discipline, or process and contact the manager of that area for permission to shadow a healthcare personnel. Once approval is determined from the visiting unit, the participant gains approval from their current unit manager for use of PL time and establishes a date, time, and number of hours to participate in this activity. Before the shadow clinical experience, the participant completes all aspects of the Pre-Visit Form. The Participant then attends the clinical shadow experience. After the clinical shadow experience, the participant will complete the Post-Visit Form and Evaluation.
Each observation visits of 6, 8, or 12 hours includes one hour for planning and one hour to complete the evaluation and exemplar. Contact hours are based on one for every three hours spent in observation, as well as one hour for planning the experience and completing pre-visit form and one hour for reflecting and completing all aspects of the post-visit form (exemplar and evaluation).
