Inter-Professional Team Seminars

Catalog description

This course focuses on developing skills for interprofessional teamwork and collaborative practice to improve patient safety and quality of care. Students from seven different professions are in the course: medicine, nursing, physician assistant, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and pharmacy. The course will primarily use small-group, faculty facilitated sessions. Students will be provided patient cases, readings, and assessments that must be completed for each seminar. The course is designed to improve knowledge and skills for collaborative practice based upon national IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and application in clinical settings.