{"id":105901,"date":"2023-12-08T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=105901"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:34:06","slug":"for-dr-davis-community-is-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/12\/08\/for-dr-davis-community-is-key\/","title":{"rendered":"For Dr. Davis, community is key"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Precious Davis, EdD, an Omaha native, left high school at 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, she is the director of the UNMC College of Medicine\u2019s Community Collaborative Academy and an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Family Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFollow your dreams, follow your heart,\u201d Dr. Davis said when asked about her journey. \u201cDon&#8217;t doubt yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Davis, who describes herself as \u201ca nurse first,\u201d started her medical center career as a certified nurse assistant at Clarkson Hospital 21 years ago. She mentions two keys to her success:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A belatedly discovered love of learning. \u201cI got my GED. I started on my college track, and I got my first degree. I thought, \u2018Well, let&#8217;s go to the next degree.\u2019 Then I thought, \u2018Let\u2019s go all the way.\u2019 It was a personal goal and challenge for me, after not liking education and dropping out of high school, to show myself that I could do that.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many supportive mentors at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine, especially over the past eight years. \u201cI credit Dr. Nada Fadul, Dr. Jasmine Marcelin, Dr. Marcia Shade, Dr. Shirley Delair, Dr. Sheritta Strong, for pulling me along. I was going to stay in my clinic and work as a nurse. But if you dream big and find colleagues who will push you, who will pull out your strengths, you can in turn walk in your leadership, because I believe we&#8217;re all leaders.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As the inaugural UNMC Community Collaborative Academy, Dr. Davis helped spearhead this falls Community Engagement Day (CED) for M1 students. The mission of the academy is to engage community partners to directly educate medical students who will be caring for the populations and communities they serve. During the CED, M1 students go out and visit with community partners and learn on site, at times with direct testimony from clients, about the support the organizations provide and how they help address health disparities, the challenges and barriers their clients face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery medical student should understand what they face in caring for our populations and our communities from actually going into the community and hearing directly from community partners,\u201d Dr. Davis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The October event received positive feedback from both students and community partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSimply going into the community and observing our community firsthand, instead of simply talking about it, is what made this event successful,\u201d one student said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed getting to connect with organizations outside of UNMC. So much of our education revolves around the UNMC campus. Having the opportunity to expand beyond the campus and interact with leaders who are actively plugged in and making differences in the lives of Omaha residents was an experience that I will treasure for the rest of my life as a person and physician,\u201d another student said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Davis has been involved in community engagement activities for medical students since 2019. Most recently she has been a health equity educator for the UNMC Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes collaborative (ECHO) in the UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was able to give input and feedback, sit in on some brainstorming meetings and discussions regarding the health inequities and disparities seen in the community and among my patient populations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the academy was created, Dr. Davis was finishing her doctoral degree in health care education and leadership. Being named the director was a match made in heaven, she said. As an Omaha native, Dr. Davis\u2019 experience in the community is key in building and maintaining relationships with UNMC\u2019s community partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Davis is proud to be part of UNMC and Nebraska Medicine and to help the organizations reach their goals of incorporating community engagement into medical school training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t stop believing. Work hard. This organization allows for you to move and pivot and grow &#8212; for me, to dream beyond what I ever thought or imagined. 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