Center for the Health Sciences Interprofessional Education

COURSES

Interprofessional Competencies

The changing health care system requires that all health professionals be capable of working together with our patients and clients to understand and meet their health care needs. The Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education faculty have identified five primary competencies that each health professions student and practitioner should be able to demonstrate:

Competence in one's own clinical practice discipline
Respect and appreciation of roles and approaches to clinical and social problems of one's own and other disciplines.
Understanding of the population context for care of a population and/or patient.
Understanding the complexity of population health that requires interdisciplinary strategies for cost savings and cost-effectiveness
Basic group process skills including communications, negotiation, time management, assessment of group dynamics.

In a major report on reforming the health care system, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality Health Care in America identified the following skills that underlie these competencies (Committee..2001. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.p. 209, Washington DC, IOM). The coursework listed on the following pages will help you select classroom and clinical experiences to obtain such skills.

Use a variety of approaches to deliver care
Synthesize the evidence-base and communicate it to patients
Combine the evidence-base, knowledge about patient outcomes and patient preferences to tailor care for an individual
Communicate with patients in a shared and fully open manner to support their decision-making and self-management
Use decision support systems and other tools to aid clinical decision-making
Identify errors and hazards in care; understand and implement basic safety design principles
Understand the course of illness and a patient's experience outside hospitals
Continually measure the quality of care in terms of both process and outcome
Work collaboratively in teams with shared responsibility
Design processes of care and measure their effectiveness
Understand how to find new knowledge as it continually expands
Understand determinants of health, the link between medical care and healthy populations, and professional responsibilities

Coursework

Preprofessional:

Freshman Seminar: GENST 197:Issues in Interdisciplinary Health Care

Interpersonal

UCONJ 505 Professional Interpersonal Styles of Communication with Families to Enhance Health Outcomes. Course Description

Multidisciplinary graduate certificate program in AIDS and STDS
http://depts.washington.edu/cfas/training/grad_cert/

Overview Courses Relevant to Underserved and Chronic Illness

UCONJ 411: Psychology of Aging
UCONJ 440: Biological Aspects of Aging
UCONJ 442: Social and Cultural Aspects of Aging
UCONJ 443: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Aging
UCONJ 450: Health Care in the Underserved Community
UCONJ 490: Social Sensitivity in Health Care
UCONJ 497: Health Care in a Rural Community
UCONJ 501, 502 or 503 International Health
UCONJ 511: Issues in Home Health Care Delivery
UCONJ 513: Dynamics of Patient Management: Diabetes
UCONJ 515: Interdisciplinary Health and Human Services Delivery in Rural Communities
UCONJ 530: Issues in Indian Health

Problem-Based Learning

HUBIO 559: - P-Problem Based Learning
UCONJ 444: - Interprofessional Collaborative Teams in Health Care

Clinical Placements (credit & course number are school specific)

Harborview Medical Center (HMC) placements
Community site placement (Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center)
SITC Students in the Community
UCONJ 500: Seminar in Interprofessional Collaboration (service learning fieldwork

Extracurricular Student Groups with Service-Learning Volunteer Activities, Monthly presentations, field trips

SPARX & CHAP

Additional Courses with Interdisciplinary Emphasis

PBIO 405, 406 Human Physiology (Dental, Graduate Nursing, Bioengineering ,Health Sciences Graduate Students)
BSTR 530 (HuBio 511) Gross Anatomy (Dental, Medical Students & Graduate Students)
BSTR 541 (HuBio 510) (Dental, Medical Students & Graduate Students)
EPI 549 HSERV 536: Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance
HSERV 501: Public Health Practice at the Local Level
HSERV 508: Dynamics of Community Health Practice (offered jointly with NURS 560)
HSERV 580: Society, Chronic Illness, and Disability
HSERV 523: Community Health Assessment
HSERV 588: Community Approcahes to Health Promotion
HSERV 595: Practicuum/Field Work in Community Medicine
HUBIO 555: Health Care and Society
LIS 540: Materials for General Information Needs
LIS 554: Information Resources and Services in Culturally Diverse Communities
LIS 553: Information Access in Health SciencesMEDEX 452 Pathophysiology
NURS 562: Clinically Applied Anthropology
NURS 580: Current Issues in Occupational Health and Medicine
NUTR 500: Nutrition Sciences Seminar
NUTR 562:Nutrition and Chronic Disease
NUTR 563: Nutrition in Acute Care
MED 560 P-Advanced Global Health
PHARM 438: Gerontological Communication Skills Seminar
PHARM 534,535: Evaluating Cost and Outcomes in Health and Medicine
PED 506: Interdisciplinary Seminars in Adolescent Health
REHAB 566: Special Topics in Rehabilitation
SISCA 490: Comparative Health Care Practices in Canada and the U.S.
SOC WF 419: Adult Development and Aging
SOC 535: Research Issues in Demography and Population Studies
SOC WL 579: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Prevention Science: Children and Adolescents
UCONJ 100: Introduction to Health Professions
UCONJ 290: Diversity Issues in the Health Care
UCONJ 420: Biological Safety Practices
UCONJ 422: Sexually Transmitted Diseases: An Overview
UCONJ 443 Interdisciplinary Seminar on Aging
UCONJ 445: Bioterrorism Awareness for Health Professionals
UCONJ 446: Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response for Health Professionals
UCONJ 450: Health Care in the Underserved Community
UCONJ 490 Social Sensitivity in Health Care
UCONJ 497 Health Care in a Rural Community
UCONJ 501, 502, 503: International Health
UCONJ 505 Professional Interpersonal Styles of Communication with Families to Enhance Health Outcomes
UCONJ 511 Issues in Home Health Care Delivery
UCONJ 513 Dynamics of Patient Management: Diabetes Mellitus
UCONJ 524: Developmental Neurobiology
UCONJ 540: Environment and Health
WOMEN 503: Feminist Research and Methods of Inquiry
WOMEN 512: Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women's Health

For additional information please contact: The Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education at intrprof@u.washington.edu