The Clarion National Case Competition is an outgrowth of the University of Minnesota’s regional case competitions, which were designed and administered by medical students in their response to the perception of the need for interprofessional education and training in root cause analysis and practice-based problem solving. Along with faculty sponsors from the School of Health Professions, The School of Medicine, The Sinclair School of Nursing, and the Department of Health Management and Informatics, CHCQ has sent teams to this competition since 2005. That first year, our team placed first in the competition.

This year, the team made up of Jennifer Dine (Nursing), Sahil Hebbar (HMI), Cindy Thomas (Public Health), and Wesley Trueblood (Medicine) placed first in the competition! The University of Minnesota placed second, and Dartmouth College placed third. This is MU's second first place finish (the 2005 team also placed first). MU is the only school who has had two first place finishes. Faculty sponsors were Amanda Allmon (FCM), Robert DeGraff (HMI), Kris Hagglund (Health Profession), and Roxanne McDaniel (Nursing). Join CHCQ is congratulating these students on an outstanding performance. Pictured below: Wesley Trueblood, Cindy Thomas, Jennifer Dine, and Sahil Hebbar.