The Core Principles of Interprofessional Practice program seeks to provide students from the health professions at UCSF with interprofessional didactic and clinical experiences that facilitate an appreciation of the diversity of knowledge and perspectives inherent in interprofesional teams that enhance patient care, public service and research.
LEVEL ONE
The first level of the Core Principles of Interprofessional Practice program provides students with early exposure and experience collaborating with other healthcare professional students in small groups in the classroom setting. All first and second-year students from Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Physical Therapy participate in this required curriculum. Small group sessions are held over the course of one year.
Session 1 - What Do We Do and Who Are We? Introduction to IPE Concepts, Roles, and Responsibilities
- Define and discuss how interprofessional education (IPE) is important to interprofessional collaborative practice.
- Describe the benefits of highly functioning interprofessional teams to achieve the quintuple aim for healthcare improvement.
- Brainstorm examples of how interprofessional collaboration can be used as a tool to achieve the quintuple aim, using the example of healthcare for people over the age of 65.
- Describe the roles, responsibilities, and abilities of various health care professions involved in collaborative work, including their training and scopes of practice.
- Describe one's own professional role in relation to collaborating with other professionals.
- Demonstrate understanding of professional roles and responsibilities by participating collaboratively in interviewing a simulated patient encounter.
- Formulate a problem list, inclusive of social determinants of health, and develop recommendations based on collaborative history taking and team discussion.
Session 2 - How Will We Communicate Effectively? Understanding Communication, Accountability and Task Distribution
- Recognize jargon within your own profession, how the use of jargon affects interprofessional communication, and strategies for reducing jargon in interprofessional communication.
- Describe tools and strategies to enhance interpersonal communication and know what purposes they serve.
- Demonstrate the ability to use one or more communication tools or strategies effectively.
Session 3 - How Will We Tackle Challenges? Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Describe sources of conflict in the healthcare setting.
- Compare and contrast different styles of managing conflict.
- Describe one's own conflict management style.
- Demonstrate basic skills in a three-step approach to managing conflict.
Session 4 - How Can We Work Together? Leadership and Membership
- Identify and reflect upon your own leadership compass style and how it may impact team dynamics.
- Define psychological safety and brainstorm strategies to promote psychological safety in teams.
- Demonstrate interprofessional collaboration skills while working in an interprofessional team.
- Define shared leadership and demonstrate shared leadership in approaching a patient case.
LEVEL TWO
In the second level of the Core Principles of Interprofessional Practice program, students are expected to be able to apply their interprofessional collaboration skills to a standardized patient while working with an interprofessional team of colleagues. This exercise is designed to provide students with:
- Demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively with learners from other health professions.
- Describe the role of other healthcare professionals in caring for a patient who wishes to pursue integrative health strategies.
- Develop a comprehensive care plan in collaboration with other health professions learners to meet the patient’s needs.
- Discuss the experience of developing a comprehensive care plan in collaboration with other health professions learners.
- Effectively give and receive constructive feedback.
LEVEL THREE
In the third level of the Core Principles of Interprofessional Practice program, students are expected to gain experience in each of the Core Principles in their professional programs and to engage in interprofessional activities through elective courses, clinical experiences, and volunteer opportunities.
LEVEL FOUR (Optional)
This is an opportunity for UCSF health professions students to engage in further interprofessional collaboration activities and scholarship through small group work, simulation, projects, scholarship, and interprofessional clinical immersion experiences. To learn more, visit the IPCS CLE website. Please email Angel Kuo ([email protected] external site for more information.