Opportunities for Faculty

Teaching Opportunities

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.

For First-Year Learners:

Core Principles IPE: Session #1: A Key Component to Safe Care
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

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 Lorraine Hart ([email protected])

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

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)

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 Lorraine Hart ([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 via an online enrollment survey.
Based on the information provided in the enrollment survey, you will be paired with an Interprofessional Observer best suited for your teaching needs.
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 Lorraine Hart ([email protected])

Funding Opportunities

PIPE Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant

The PIPE Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant (view past award recipients) 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 $7,500.00 to create and pilot a new interprofessional immersive experience.

Call for new applications will go out in late August 2022

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.

All proposals should:

Include UCSF learners (students, residents and/or fellows) from a minimum of two professional schools during each clinical experience. NOTE: It is strongly encouraged that at least 1 participating learner be a student.
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 three times during funding year (minimum of 6 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 2022-2023
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.

Resources:

PIPE Interprofessional Mini-Grant

The PIPE Interprofessional Mini-Grant program (view 2021 recipients and watch recipient Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd presentation) is meant to provide support for pilot interprofessional opportunities to encourage creative solutions that enable interprofessional learning. Recipients will receive a $1000 stipend. An example of the type of program that would be funded would be an interprofessional elective for pharmacy and medical students to work collaboratively in outreach to high risk patients with complex medical illness who may be deferring needed acute or chronic care due to concerns about the risk of COVID-19 infection.

Requirements:

Experience must engage learners (students, residents or fellows) from 2 or more professions and must be structured in a way to promote interprofessional learning
Must include at least 1 interprofessional learning objective linked to the UCSF interprofessional competencies.
Minimum of 10-20 contact hours for learners (Note: faculty do not need to be present for 10-20 contact hours)
Must administer an end-of-experience evaluation for learners and faculty participants and share results with PIPE leadership (NOTE: PIPE program will provide assistance in developing the evaluation)
Grantees must present an update to the relevant PIPE Curriculum Subcommittee

Considerations:

Although it is not required that you have faculty leadership for each profession that is involved in the experience, it is important to consult with faculty leadership from the professions that you are planning to engage to determine the most appropriate level of learner for the experience and how the planned experience will fit into their curriculum. You can find a list of faculty leadership for each school here.
Please consider how you will onboard and orient learners and whether there are specific requirements at your site (EHR training/access etc).
Experiences can be incorporated into existing electives or courses. If you are considering a new course, please be aware of the course submission process and deadlines https://senate.ucsf.edu/course-actions/course-forms-and-deadlines

We recommend reviewing the grant workshee t before applying.

Ready to apply? PIPE Interprofessional Mini-Grant Application

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Recognition

Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Awards

Congratulations to the 2021 recipients. Learn more about the September 29 UCSF Academy of Medical Educators’ Annual Celebration.

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Academy of Medical Educators/Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award. This peer-nominated award is intended to highlight frontline interprofessional teachers.

Submissions call for new applications will go out late Spring 2022

Eligibility: Who is eligible?

All faculty teachers of UCSF learners, trainees, students, residents, and fellows
UCSF Volunteer Clinical Professors
Faculty from all UCSF schools
Teachers 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 must 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

Award recipients from 2018, 2019, and 2020
Academy of Medical Educators Members

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 or another appointment)
Residency/Felllowship Program Directors
Specialty Coordinators
Clerkship Directors
Course Directors/Faculty of Record
Associate and Site Directors
Course Element Leaders (Foundations 1): which include the Foundational Science (FS) and Inquiry Immersion blocks, the longitudinal Core Inquiry Curriculum, and Clinical Microsystem Clerkship (CMC)
SOM Coaches

Essential elements of the narrative portion of the nomination:

Attests to the nominee's teaching qualities and characteristics
Describe the nominee's commitment to UCSF's PRIDE Values and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award only: 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.

Submission Guidelines:

Each nomination requires two faculty nominators
The nominee can be within or outside your department/school
Faculty 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)
The narrative is capped at 3500 characters

Selection and Notification Process

Review Process

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 29, 2021

Submit a nomination.

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