Tara Jenner-Donaldson
Director of Pre-Health Professions
Background
Dr. Tara Jenner-Donaldson is the Director of the Pre-Health Professions Program and Pre-Medical Post-Baccalaureate Program at JCU. Dr. Jenner-Donaldson has been drawn to the health professions since childhood and has worked in various capacities in higher, physician assistant, and medical education since 2012. \\Dr. Jenner-Donaldson’s academic highlights include creating the annual JCU Health Professions Summit, directing a HRSA grant for PA students training in rural areas, developing a health humanities course at JCU and medical narrative elective for second-year medical students, running a health humanities conference in Ireland, and working to implement the health humanities in health professions education.
Areas of Expertise
- Pre-health programming and advising
- health humanities
- new health professions program development
- interprofessional education
- and accreditation
Research Interests
Pre-health student preparedness, new health professions program development, patient/provider communication, medical narrative, infertility, the stigmatization of illness, rural health, the social determinants of health, and interprofessional education.
