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Facilitating Interprofessional Sessions

UCSF continues to offer its Interprofessional Education Curriculum, Core Principles of Interprofessional Practice. This curriculum is a hybrid approach, incorporating both an online platform and face-to-face small group sessions. The online component of the program will incorporate modules and assignments from the UCSF online course, "Collaboration and Communication in Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice." Small groups will consist of first and second year learners from the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and physical therapy.

In their third year, students participate in the Interprofessional Standardized Patient Exercise (ISPE). This is an opportunity for students from the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and physical therapy, nutrition interns from UCSF and San Francisco State University (SFSU), and social work students from SFSU, to work collaboratively in a team of four with a standardized patient. The sessions take place in the Kanbar Center for Simulation, Clinical Skills, and Telemedicine Education. Faculty preceptors observe team and individual student interactions with the patient, and lead a debriefing session to discuss the student experiences of working in an interprofessional team. The exercise allows students to learn about each other and their roles in health care, and to provide feedback on their team members' communication and teamwork skills.

If you would like to get involved with facilitating one of these sessions or would like more information, please contact Nathan Jew ([email protected])

Kai Kennedy, DPT leads a Core Principles of Interprofessional Practice Facilitator Orientation in the video below.

For First-Year Learners:

Core Principles IPE: Session #1: The Value of Interprofessional Practice
Core Principles IPE Session #2: Roles and Responsibilities
Core Principles IPE Session #3: How Will Our Work Get Done?

For Second-Year Learners:

Core Principles IPE Session #4: Developing Your Conflict Competency
Core Principles IPE Session #5: Leadership & Membership in Team-Based Healthcare

Engaging with the New Interprofessional Collaboration Scholars Program

PIPE is excited to announce the launch of the UCSF Interprofessional Collaboration Scholars program (IPCS)! 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.

We welcome those who are creating interprofessional activities whether in the classroom or clinical setting to contact us so we can include your activities and/or projects in our Scholars program! Our IP Scholars may be able to provide some support to your work or participate in your activities to meet program requirements. Let's chat! Please email Angel Kuo ([email protected]) for more information.

Item Criteria for IPE Designation in UCSF Course Catalog

Below are the guidelines to have your course listed with an IPE designation in the UCSF course catalog.

Interprofessional education occurs when learners from two or more health and/or social care professions engage in learning with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and the delivery of care. At UCSF, courses submitted for consideration of interprofessional status in the course catalog must meet all of the following criteria:

The course must specify an explanation for the request for interprofessional status (describe in the "justification" field on the course form)
The course must include learners from at least two schools and these should be specified (describe in the "course intended for what type of student" field on the course form)
The prerequisites, if any, for the course should not be specific to one school (describe in the "prerequisites" field on the course form)
The course must be the result of a participatory collaboration among faculty representing two or more professions/schools. (list faculty collaborators and professions/school designation in the "justification" field on the course form)
At least one of the course objectives should be related to interprofessionalism (describe in the "course objectives" field on the course form)

Leadership

Committees

Professional Development

Interprofessional Teaching Certificate

Intended for teachers in all settings who want to create and maximize interprofessional learning opportunities, this certification consists of 10 workshops, some with online components. Participants demonstrate skills learned by completing assessment exercises during the workshops. If you would like more information, please click here.

Get involved in the UCSF education community through the Center for Faculty Educators.

Consultations for Works in Progress

The Program for Interprofessional Education has an Interprofessional Practice and Education Scholarship Working Group to promote scholarship in interprofessional practice (IPP) and interprofessional education (IPE) at UCSF. This group provides consultations and encourages those who are engaged in IPE/IPP scholarship to present their works-in-progress at a meeting. This work may be highlighted on the PIPE website to build a repository of UCSF scholarship available for interested faculty, trainees, and students.

If you are interested in joining the group or presenting an IPP/IPE Work-In-Progress for consultation, please contact [email protected]

PIPE Interprofessional Teaching Observation Program (iTOP)

Why choose PIPE Interprofessional Teaching Observation Program?

Interprofessional Education (IPE) is vital for increasing patient safety, maximizing efficiencies, and improving quality of care. As UCSF and other leading institutions start to incorporate more interprofessional curricula into their health professions programs, the need for specially trained IPE educators is crucial.

Interprofessional student groups consist of incredibly diverse learners with a wide range of training experiences and expertise. It is likely a bulk of your teaching experience to this point has been with learners in your profession. Stepping outside this silo and teaching learners of diverse professions requires us to move from being the expert in a learning environment to being a facilitator, charged with encouraging meaningful collaboration and effective communication.

Trained observers in the iTOP program can help educators gain the confidence and skills to succeed in a variety of IPE settings and to address the unique challenges of teaching interprofessional learners.

How Does it Work?

Request to participate in an interprofessional-focused teaching observation by emailing [email protected]
A member of the iTOP staff will contact you and put you in touch with your Observer.
Together you and your Observer will arrange a brief pre-meeting to discuss your specific needs and expectations for the observation, as well as schedule the observation itself and a debrief meeting.
Participate in the observation.
At your scheduled debrief meeting your Observer will discuss their feedback and provide you with confidential, written comments based on your agreed upon criteria.
Once the process is complete, you will be receive a letter documenting your participation with the option of a copy being provided to your department chair.

For more information, please contact [email protected]

Recognition

Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Awards

Academy of Medical Educators/Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award.
This peer-nominated award is intended to highlight outstanding front-line interprofessional teachers who might otherwise go unrecognized.

Congratulations to the 2024 Awardees

Nominee submissions are due Friday, July 26, 2024 for the Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award.

Preview nomination form here

Eligibility: Who is eligible?

Any faculty who teaches UCSF trainees and students (Teaching Awards)
All UCSF Schools
Includes UCSF Volunteer Clinical Professors
From any UCSF teaching sites and affiliated sites including Community sites, East Bay sites, Kaiser, Mission Bay, Mount Zion, Parnassus, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals (Oakland and San Francisco), UCSF Fresno, SFVAMC, and ZSFG.
NOTE: for Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching award, interprofessional teachers work with learners from two or more professions and create an environment that enables learners to learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and optimize patient outcomes.

Ineligible Nominees

Submission Information: Who can nominate?

UCSF faculty members who are among the following:

Members of the Academy of Medical Educators
Department or Division Leadership (e.g. Vice Chairs for Education, Vice Chair for DEIA, Division Chief, or another appointment)
Residency/Felllowship Program Directors
Associate Program Directors
Specialty Coordinators
Clerkship Directors
Course Directors/Faculty Leads/Faculty of Record
Site Directors
SOM Coaches

Essential elements of the narrative portion of the nomination:

Demonstrate how your nominee is a leader in professionalism and models equity and inclusion, exhibiting UCSF PRIDE Values
Teachers who work simultaneously with learners from two or more professions and create an environment that enables them to learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and optimize patient outcomes.
Teaches to interprofessional competencies:

a) Uses the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served.

b) Communicates with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a collaborative approach to the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease in individual patients and populations.

c) Works with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, diversity, ethical integrity, and trust

Submission Guidelines:

Each nomination requires two faculty nominators
Submit a joint 1-page letter (3500 characters maximum)
Letter to be copied and pasted into the online form
The nominee can be within or outside your department/school
Provide supporting data for your nominee's interprofessional teaching: e.g., approximate duration of teaching and numbers of learners, teaching hours, objective evaluation data, learner quotes, faculty/colleague and/or leadership quotes, and MedHub evaluations
Faculty nominators can submit one primary nomination and one secondary nomination for either the Interprofessional Teaching Award or the Excellence in Teaching Award (an overview of both awards)

Submissions are reviewed and selected by:

PIPE Professional Development Committee

Notification and Recognition Information

Recipients and Nominators are notified in August
Recipients receive a certificate and letter copied to their department or division chair
Recipients recognized at the Academy's Celebration of New Members, Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Learn more about the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators’ Annual Celebration.

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions about the Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award.

Interprofessional Collaboration Award

Congratulations to the 2024 winners!

We are excited to partner with UCSF Health to recognize exemplary interprofessional teams with the Interprofessional Collaboration Award. Nominations are open in January and awardees will be announced in April to coincide with National Interprofessional Healthcare Month.

Teams can be clinical teams or systems improvement teams and should be comprised of a least 3 members from a minimum of 3 different health professions. At least half of the team members should be employees at UCSF Health, BCH-SF or BCH-Oakland. Please consider nominating an interprofessional team by completing this form. Preview a sample of the nomination form here. The deadline for nominations is March 3, 2025. If you have questions or if you are interested in serving on the Award Selection Committee, please contact [email protected].

Documenting Your Contributions to IPE in Advance CV

Find guidance on how to document your PIPE involvement in your Advance CV by reviewing PIPE Advance Documentation and a sample Teaching Narrative focused on Interprofessional Teaching. Learn more about Planning Professional Advancement / Promotion and Tenure and How to Write a Professional Profile to Showcase Interprofessional Work with these documents created by the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC).

Funding Opportunities

PIPE Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant

(2024 recipient and prior recipients archive)

The PIPE Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant was created to support individual clinical sites in piloting new interprofessional immersive experiences for learners (students, residents and/or fellows) in the health professional programs at UCSF (Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy). Selected proposals will receive one-time funding of $10,000.00 to create and pilot a new interprofessional immersive experience.

Early August-October 14, 2024	Initial Concept Submission Phase
October 14, 2024	Initial Concept Proposals Due
October 14-October 29, 2024	Concept Review Phase
October 30-December 20, 2024	Proposal Revision
December 20, 2024	Final Proposals Due
Late February 2025	Funded Proposals Announced
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026	Project Implementation

Proposal Submission

Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions about your proposal or would like to schedule a consultation to review your proposal.

Available 2024 consult sessions:

Sept 12, 1:30-2:20pm

Nov 13, 12:10-1:00pm

Nov 14, 1:30-2:20pm

Dec 12, 1:30-2:20pm

other times by arrangement

Guidelines

Applicants will develop a new interprofessional, immersive clinical experience (two weeks or equivalent) in a clinical setting (inpatient or outpatient-based) where UCSF learners (students, residents and/or fellows) from two or more health professions have the opportunity to learn with, from and about each other. (view past award recipients)

All proposals should:

Include UCSF learners (students, residents and/or fellows) from a minimum of two professional schools during each clinical experience. Learners must have opportunities to work together in the clinical setting.
Include a minimum two-week experience (or equivalent – 10 days).
Include faculty from two professional schools.
Incorporate at least one interprofessional learning objective that links to the UCSF Interprofessional Core Competencies.
Include an evaluation plan.
Plan to repeat the experience a minimum of two times during funding year (minimum of 4 learners over the funding year).
Have a plan for sustainability once the funding period is over.

Principal Investigator Eligibility

UCSF faculty or trainees
Trainees in their final year must have a letter from their department chair certifying an academic position in the year 2025-2026
Trainees who are PIs on projects must include a faculty partner

Funding Restrictions

Funding can be used to support faculty or an administrative staff person’s time, or can go to the clinical setting where the immersion experience occurs.
Funding cannot be used to purchase equipment or food.

Links:

Initial Concept Proposal: submit via Qualtrics - https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bqNMQLrOiOnxI4m

see preview of form in Additional Resources below

Final Proposal: submit via Qualtrics - https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4Iucx4jxNdc5Gx8

see preview of form in Additional Resources below

Budget Template: https://ucsf.box.com/s/zyjt1qm6jip9a83e2l4d5d371uvasoya

Additional Resources:

UCSF Innovations Funding for Education

Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education

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