Interprofessional Collaboration Scholars Program
PIPE is excited to announce the launch of the UCSF Interprofessional Collaboration Scholars (IPCS) program! 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]) for more information.
Elective & Clinical Opportunities
Numerous elective courses, clinical experiences and volunteer opportunities exist at UCSF to allow students to tailor their interprofessional education experience to their interests and professional goals.
If you would like to have your course listed in the UCSF course catalog with an IPE designation please click here for more information.
If you would like to get involved with any of these elective or clinical opportunities, please reach out to the contacts below or review the course catalog.
Please contact [email protected] if you have an elective or volunteer opportunity to add to this list!
MEDICINE 170.01A Food as Medicine (Special Issues in Health Care) (1 Unit)
Fall 2024
Course Description: Explore in systematic (lecture/readings/small group discussion) format new issues in health care or special content areas related to medicine. Topics are developed and prepared according to faculty-student interests.
Day, time, & Room Location: Wednesdays 12:10-1pm: 8/21, 8/28, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 11/6, 11/13, 12/11; 10/2 (which will be in the evening 5-8PM); CSB 1113-1114
Student coordinator: Rachel Huynh, Sharlene Shirali, Elaine Kim, Daniel Chan, Kaitlyn Hsu & Mariel Magdits
Instructor(s): Cindy Lai
Prerequisite(s): none
Restrictions: No restrictions. All UCSF students enrolled in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy & Dentistry may enroll in this course and receive credit.
Medicine 170.49: Native Health Elective (1.0 unit)
Fall 2024
Course description: This elective offers an introduction to and overview of the health of Native American/Alaska Native communities. The course will examine both historical and political influences on Native health, as well as provide cultural context and examples of resilience within Indigenous communities. We start the course with a brief history of Native policies, including the development of the Indian Health Service. We will then discuss various disparities affecting Native communities (e.g. access to care).
Day, Time & Room Location: Thursdays, 12:10-1PM, Hybrid (Zoom and in-person), Room: CSB1101 except 11/7 (held in CSB-1110)
Dates: 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/26, 10/3, 10/17, 10/24, 11/7, 11/14
Faculty: Tasce Bongiovanni
Student coordinators: Shivany Y. Condor Montes, Madison Thompson
Opioid Overdose Prevention Workshop 10/05/2024, 8:00am-12:00pm
Qualtrics link for registration. Pre-registration is required.
COSA’s Substance Use Disorder Project and the UCSF Harm Reduction & Addictive Medicine (HRAM) interest group are excited to invite you to our interprofessional OPIOID OVERDOSE & NALOXONE TRAINING WORKSHOP! The opioid crisis in San Francisco continues to grow throughout the pandemic and this is an area that we, as health professionals, can play a role in mitigating.
This valuable hands-on workshop will provide attendees with the necessary skills to help save a life! By the end of this workshop, you will gain knowledge of the opioid overdose epidemic in SF, learn harm reduction strategies, and receive new insights through an interdisciplinary discussion on implicit bias and stigma surrounding opioid use. Featured guest speakers include local first responders and a survivor in long-term remission who will share their personal experiences surrounding opioid use disorder and/or overdose. We will be giving out free Narcan kits, Fentanyl test strips and/or Xylazine test strips. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to sign up for ride-alongs and volunteer opportunities that we are developing with community-based organizations in the city.
This IN-PERSON workshop will be held at UCSF Parnassus, Classroom 0101 in the Clinical Sciences Building on Saturday, October 5th from 8:00AM-12:00PM. All UCSF Health professional students, faculty, and affiliated providers are welcome!
Contact: [email protected]
Advocacy Skills Training for Health Professionals
Learn how to advocate for health equity from a national leader in the field. UCSF and University of Washington are hosting a special seminar series with Dr. Robert Rock, our visiting IPE Scholar in Residence for 2024-2025. All health professions students at UCSF are eligible to participate in these sessions that focus on building advocacy skills in an interprofessional context. Because these sessions are designed to build on each other, we ask that you only sign up to participate if you can commit to attend all 3 sessions which will be held on Zoom.
- Framing of Equity Focused Advocacy as an Interprofessional Endeavor on Tuesday October 22, 2024, 5pm-7pm
- Bringing One’s Whole Self to the Profession: Alignment of Personal and Professional Action on Tuesday November 19, 2024, 5pm-7pm
- Advocacy / Organizing Skills for Health Professional Students on Tuesday January 14, 2025, 5pm-7pm
For additional information please visit the website here.
To register, please complete the form here.
If you are interested in receiving elective credit for participation or if you have questions, please contact Wendy Brown ([email protected]).
Clinical Geriatrics
This elective explores geriatric medicine and how multiple disciplines work within a skilled nursing home. Students will work on a mini-interprofessional team, with pharmacy and physical therapy students, learning about common geriatric conditions and caring for geriatric patients at the VA Community Living Center (CLC).
Education in Patient Aligned Care Teams (EdPACT)
The program aims to change the culture of healthcare education by teaching internal medicine residents and nurse practitioner students to work together as they care for a panel of patients. Sixteen medical residents and eight nurse practitioner students will work in teams, supervised by physicians and nurse practitioners. Trainees from pharmacy, social work, nutrition, mental health and podiatry will also have opportunities to participate in the program.
Community Health Clinic
The UCSF Homeless Clinic is comprised of UCSF medical students, nursing students, pharmacy students, medical residents, and physicians. The mission is to provide sensitive, accessible, and high-quality health care and create an environment in which students, preceptors, and patients may teach and learn from one another at the same time.
Mabuhay Health Center
The Mabuhay Health Center (MHC) is a free UCSF student-run community health clinic that operates in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) district. MHC runs monthly clinics at the Bayanihan Community Center, where student volunteers (undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, graduate, dental, medical, nursing, and pharmacy students) strive to deliver culturally sensitive health care under the supervision of faculty from UC San Francisco.
Words on the Wards
Word on the Wards (WoW) is an interprofessional health coaching program and elective that trains first- and second-year trainees from the schools of pharmacy, nursing, medicine, physical therapy to work together to provide health coaching to inpatients at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Through patient education, this program aims to address issues of low health literacy and social isolation that serve as challenges for patients, while empowering them to learn more and be proactive about their health. Students learn about and practice the following: health coaching and teaching patients, working with patients from underserved backgrounds in a safety net hospital, and interacting with fellow health professional students and physicians.
Clubs & Organizations
At UCSF, organizations, student groups and clubs are referred to as "RCOs" (Registered Clubs & Organizations). RCOs attract students based on culture, background, skills or the desire to learn or serve in a specific way.
The Mabuhay Health Center
The Mabuhay Health Center (MHC) is a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) student-run free community health clinic targeting underserved Filipino-American residents of San Francisco’s South of Market (SOMA) District.
Word on the Wards Word Word on the Wards (WoW) is an interdisciplinary program created by students for students from UCSF's School of Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine, Physical Therapy and City College of San Francisco's Community Health Worker Program to serve as health coaches for patients hospitalized at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
HealthLink
Our mentors are UCSF graduate students from all five health professional schools: Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Physical Therapy, and Medicine. Each mentor is paired with a single high school student. During Saturday sessions, mentors accompany their mentees throughout the day's activities and workshops.
For more interprofessional RCOs at UCSF, please visit the Organization Directory at OrgSync at UCSF.