Learn foundational teamwork skills alongside future colleagues from across the health professions.
The three-part IPE Core Curriculum is aimed at developing a foundational understanding of other health professionals’ roles and responsibilities, and the skills needed to effectively collaborate with a diverse healthcare team. The curriculum is designed to give students an intentional and step-wise introduction to IPE and collaborative practice, while helping them to meet their programs’ accreditation requirements for IPE.
IPE Core Curriculum is open to UW Seattle students who are notified by their programs that they must complete this requirement. For other health sciences students interested in IPE, check out the extracurricular IPE offerings.
During 2024-25 all IPE Core Curriculum sessions will take place in-person in the Health Sciences Education Building. Students required to complete the Core Curriculum are asked to register themselves for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Health sciences students, please look out for information from your programs about the specifics of your school’s IPE requirements.
Questions? Contact Ashley McPeek: mcpeekas@uw.edu
Students will be introduced the benefits of working together, learn foundational concepts and skills for effective teamwork and begin practicing these skills through hands-on learning.
“It was really great to be able to talk and meet people from other professions. Hearing more about the experiences of my table colleagues and their journey into healthcare was a great reminder of why I chose a career in healthcare in the first place.”
Practice working together through interactive case discussions, learning and practicing important clinical skills that are shared by multiple professions, and working together in the community. Choose from the following categories of sessions offered.
Active Learning Sessions are classroom-based opportunities 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.
Bioethics Labs use clinical bioethics as a vector for teaching about teamwork and collaboration. Students will learn basic principles, frameworks and tools for ethical decision-making in healthcare, and will work to analyze ethical dilemmas together during interactive case-based discussions.
Clinical Skills Workshops provide opportunities for health sciences students to learn important shared clinical skills in an interprofessional team environment.
Click the button below to see the entire catalogue of sessions offered in each of the above categories.
Reflect and make meaning of your IPE experiences. Students will be provided tools and other resources to continue this aspect of their professional identity development.
“It’s a great start to closing the disconnection in healthcare team/system that usually cause misunderstanding of one another’s professions and encourage us to learn more about members of our care team.”
Core Curriculum Registration Instructions
2024-25 IPE Core Curriculum registration is now open! Please use the instructions below to register for the IPE Core Curriculum with the web-based app, SCHED.
- Sign-up or log-in using your UW email at the link below (non-UW email accounts will not be permitted to register).
- Select a ticket that aligns with your program; each program has their own ticket with specific rules to ensure all students meet their specific IPE requirements. If you do not see your program ticket please email Ashley.
- Following ticket selection, there is a short registration form to fill out before signing up for your sessions.
- If you need to cancel a session: log back in to remove yourself and then add yourself to something different!