Learn together about topics of shared importance.
Interprofessional active learning sessions provide students with the opportunity to engage in case-based discussion on topics relevant to all health care professionals. During 2024-25 students can participate in these sessions alongside academic and community-member experts from across the country via Zoom. In addition, there will be an opportunity to engage in a fine-arts focused session focused on exploring personal journeys and pathways to the field of health care.
Pathways and Intersections: Ceramic Art and IPE (In Person)
Monday January 27, 2025, 5:30pm-8:30pm OR Monday April 7, 2025, 5:30-8:30pm (same session offered twice)
This session pushes the boundaries of “traditional” learning methods in health professional training and provides students an opportunity to work collaboratively on a piece of abstract art inspired by a complex Seattle intersection within a historically red lined district. Students will carve a ceramic tile inspired by an important moment on their journey to a career in the health sciences. Further, students will have the opportunity to create additional tiles collaboratively which touch on a variety of themes, including aesthetics, historical red-lining, and their personal stories that lead them to pursue a career in healthcare and healing. There are two sessions, they are not cumulative.
Weight Stigma and Clinical Care (On Zoom)
Thursday February 27, 2025, 2025 5:30-7:30pm
This session explores weight stigma in healthcare, examining its consequences and ethical implications. Participants will learn to adopt a weight-neutral approach when discussing health concerns with patients. The session also focuses on fostering interprofessional collaboration to reduce weight stigma and promote health for patients of all body sizes.
Addressing Stigma Related to Mental Health, Addiction, Homelessness and Incarceration: Perspectives from people with lived experience (On Zoom)
Monday April 21, 2025 5:15-6:45pm
In this interactive session, we will be exploring what healthcare providers’ roles are, when we stigmatize and label. We will explore what are the obvious, and not so obvious, collateral consequences of that kind of labeling and marginalization in a health care setting. The panel discussion and audience participation address the following areas:
- The public display of the struggle – the disease or pre-incarceration phase
- The search for appropriate medical care and/or support system
- Remission and recovery – finding a pathway to reentering society
- Post recovery
- Being silent and afraid because of stigma and shame
- Learning to be open and to share the recovery journey
- Collaborating to develop better health care interventions
