This Lightning Talk describes a new collaboration between the Medical School and School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. “The Minnesota Way” refers to a problem solving curriculum taught to Master’s of Healthcare Administration students. A fieldwork project introduced four students to a quality improvement project in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences regarding complex clinical documentation. The MN MHA Minnesota Way of problem solving consists of three main phases; Define, Study, Act. The define phase focuses on stakeholder analysis and problem definition…