Participate in exciting opportunities that will deepen your interprofessional knowledge, skills and relationships.
Our center helps to coordinate several interprofessional education learning opportunities in the classroom, clinic and community. Opportunities listed as extracurricular are open to all graduate health sciences students and ABSN/BSN students enrolled in a UW program.
Mobile Health Outreach is a collaborative effort between Harborview Medical Center, UW School of Medicine, and the UW Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research, and Practice. Health sciences students can volunteer for outreach events at local Tiny House Villages, where teams of students with licensed preceptors provide supportive bridge-to-care services to people with various healthcare needs.
Age-Friendly Healthcare: Interprofessional Training Program is offered through the HRSA-funded Project ECHO-Geriatrics, a monthly interprofessional telementoring/consultation program focused on care of older adults in primary care. Health sciences students who join the program will be asked to participate in a minimum of three interprofessional telehealth case discussions, and will have access to real-life and timely discussions on the pressing issues of geriatric care today.
Be REAL (REsilient Attitudes and Living) is a six-week program that equips students with cognitive behavior skills to manage emotions and cope with challenging situations, mindfulness skills to strengthen self-awareness, and practices that promote compassion for themselves and others. This is offered as part of the IPE program because we believe that there is an important bi-directional relationship between health care professional well-being and interprofessional collaboration.
Advocacy Skills Training Program is a collaboration between UW Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice and University of California San Francisco Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education. The program brings students from across institutions and professions together to learn skills for improving health systems and equity. The program will be led and facilitated by an IPE Scholar in Residence, Dr. Robert Rock, Project Director for the Health Justice Fellowship at the New York-based Social Mission Alliance.
Active Learning Sessions are classroom or Zoom-based opportunities to engage in a one-time session which will allow students to learn with, from, and about each other while gaining information about topics that are often under-taught in general health sciences curriculum. The sessions offered in 2024-25 are the most popular sessions from previous years, and rely on the expertise of academic and community member experts from across the country.
1-Credit Elective Courses are a wonderful way to deepen knowledge around a particular knowledge area, while deepening skills for collaboration. Each year our IPE center supports a small number of UCONJ courses that are built to support the foundational knowledge and skill elements of IPE. Many other elective courses are available at UW that provide opportunities for learning across professions. We encourage you to explore the UW courses available in schools such as public health, social work, medicine, and nursing as well as other UCONJ courses.
