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.
Education
Doctor of Medical Humanities, Drew University
Master of Medical Humanities, Drew University
B.A. in Philosophy, The Ohio State University
Courses Taught
- PHP 1001: Test Prep Course
- PHP 1010: Health Professions Foundations
- PHP 1210: Survey of Health Professions
- PHP 2001: Introduction to Health Humanities
