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For Healthcare Students & Emerging Leaders

Intend Health People

Primary Care Progress Student Action Network

Our national Student Action Network (SAN) empowers the next generation of providers with the mindset and tools to connect in their relationships in service of achieving a more human-centered healthcare system.

Each spring, interprofessional student-led teams from across the country apply to join our Student Action Network with an action-oriented, longitudinal project to complete. Throughout the academic year, we deliver Relational Leadership training and one-on-one coaching in an experiential learning environment, which in turn supports teams to develop and implement projects at their institutions or in their communities in service of improved healthcare and health.

Learn more about our Student Action Network.

If you’re looking for more human-centered leadership and team approaches to help you navigate in an increasingly complex environment, joining our Student Action Network can help you meet your goals.

Your Goals

Navigate Change

Change is the only constant in our rapidly evolving healthcare system, but it can be understood and effectively navigated. We help equip you with the mindset and tools to metabolize change.

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Navigate Change - For Healthcare Students & Emerging Leaders
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Strengthen Community

We are wired for connection and built for community, not only in our personal lives, but our professional ones as well. We help you build and strengthen human connection and create the conditions that enable you to feel part of a larger purpose-driven community.

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Transform Conflict

Even though conflict is inevitable, we may spend too much time trying to avoid it and too little time navigating it effectively. We help you with concrete and effective strategies for surfacing and dealing with conflict within or across your teams.

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Transform Conflict - For Healthcare Students & Emerging Leaders
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Improve Collaboration

Effective communication and collaboration can be a key driver of a healthcare team’s success. We help you with practical, actionable strategies for building a culture of collaboration.

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Improve Collaboration - For Healthcare Students & Emerging Leaders
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Cultivate Leadership

In an increasingly complex healthcare environment, every member of the team needs to understand leadership as a practice of “leading from where you stand.” Everyone has the potential to lead from where they stand, and we help you recognize and cultivate this untapped potential. Learn more.

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"Thank you for inspiring a generation of future docs to become primary care physicians. I definitely felt like I had a community during medical school."

Shani Truong

Family Medicine Resident, UC Davis San Joaquin General Hospital

"In a healthcare system fraught with silos and computer screens, we need the human voice — a personal connection — now more than ever. That's the work of Intend Health."

Matt Lewis, PhD

Strategic Consultant

"The leadership skills, relationships, and perspective I have gained through my involvement in Intend Health have shaped the clinician, educator, and leader I am today."

Kyle Turner, PharmD

University of Utah

"I have employed and used so much of my Relational Leadership experience and training from Intend Health to work."

Krisda Chaiyachati, MD, MPH, MSHP

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

"I think the collaborative work that Intend Health does to recruit bright, energized, resilient, diverse, and compassionate primary care physicians all over the country will be even more impactful. Intend Health's efforts will be a big part of the solution to mend our ailing primary care infrastructure in the coming years."

Peter Meyers, MD, MPH

Family Physician, Minnesota Community Care

“A big impact that Intend Health has on me is it makes me more humble, kinder, more intuitive, a better listener, and I’ve been able to teach the skills I’ve learned to others. All of this makes me a better team member, and I think that that's integral to what Intend Health teaches — we need high functioning teams to provide the best care.”

Student Action Network Participant

“So far, my experience in this Relational Leadership course has been THE highlight of my leadership journey. This program exceeded my expectations. I have been sharing the content with my colleagues who are also inspired by it. Thank you for making the world a better place one Relational Leadership course at a time.”

Relational Leadership for Clinician Leadership Program Participant

OCHIN

"This year, there's been so much change with COVID, with work, with everything. But I feel like the PCP Student Action Network has been that constant that I could always just count on. And my favorite part is that no matter how stressful work was, no matter how stressful the year was, whenever it came time for a PCP call or any PCP anything, it's always something that I look forward to."

Student Action Network Coach

“Over 100 members of the UNC community have participated in our Relational Leadership Institutes… one word stands out for me in our evaluations — regardless of whether cohorts met in person or via Zoom — and that word is transformative."

Josh Hinson, MSW, LCSW

Assistant Professor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work

“I participated in RLI [the Relational Leadership Institute]... and my world has not been the same since. The community that I’ve gained at RLI has been extraordinary. Being part of RLI means being connected to a diverse, interdisciplinary community that breaks down the walls that are typical in academic medicine.”

Katie Gradick, MD, MHS

University of Utah

“Relational skills are particularly important right now because they’re rooted in people, with the fundamental assumption that we are good and have common values. If I can approach with unconditional positive regard and build in psychological safety, who knows what we can accomplish, despite the chaos around us.”

Lexy Kliewer, LCSW

Oregon Health and Science University

“Relational Leadership is what keeps me going. When I feel overwhelmed, stressed, down, I turn to members of the Relational Leadership community for support and resilience. We genuinely care about each other. We put ‘people first,’ truly, in our work together.”

Sarah Smithson, MD, MPH

Assistant Dean for Clinical Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

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