September 2019
Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to fall! Looking back on my first year as director for the Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education (PIPE), I am excited about what we have accomplished and grateful to so many of you for your contributions to help us build our program.

Our impact over the past year:

We are working hard to expand interprofessional education into clinical settings and recently launched the PIPE Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant Program . This program will support individual clinical sites that pilot new interprofessional immersive experiences for health professions students. Selected proposals will receive one-time funding of $7500 to create and pilot these experiences. Proposals are due October 14 and I encourage all interested faculty to apply .

There are many ways to become involved in our efforts to promote interprofessional practice and education (IPE) at UCSF. We need small group facilitators for our Core Principles of Interprofessional Practice course and Interprofessional Standardized Patient Exercise. We are actively seeking members for our PIPE committees focused on assessment, faculty and staff development, scholarship, and interprofessional curriculum (classroom, simulation and clinical). Finally, our PIPE Scholarship committee offers a Works-in-Progress consultation available to all members of the UCSF community engaged in scholarship focused on IPE.

Our success relies on collective and collaborative knowledge. I invite you to reach out to me with your ideas about how to promote IPE at UCSF and I look forward to working with many of you this year.

Thanks,
Maria Wamsley, MD
With a confident vision, Emily Silverman, MD, and Meghan O'Brien, MD, MBE, led an elective that empowered students to organize a health humanities event series within a few weeks. Events focused on #MeToo, mental health, and end-of-life narratives. "Meghan and I are both very interested in using arts and the humanities as tools to illuminate issues in health," says Silverman. more
In a qualitative study report published in Academic Medicine , Josette Rivera, MD, Bridget O’Brien, PhD, and Maria Wamsley. MD, examined the nature and barriers of interprofessional interactions in the context of the clinical microsystems clerkship sites. “Clinical sites that provided rich professional interactions tended to have experience with early medical students and systems improvement projects,” says Rivera. more
We are seeking applicants for the   PIPE Interprofessional Clinical Opportunities Grant , which was created to support individual clinical sites in piloting new interprofessional immersive experiences for students in Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Physical Therapy. Selected proposals will receive one-time funding of $7,500. Proposal submission phase: September 3 - October 14 . Find more information on how to apply  here .
Get Involved
Participate in PIPE Scholarship meetings, held every third Wednesday of the month. Next meeting: October 16 , CL-201 or via Zoom. Contact Louise Hendrickson for more information.
Upcoming Interprofessional Teaching Workshop
Wednesday, October 2 , 1 to 4 p.m.
To submit story ideas or learn more about UCSF IPE, email ipe@ucsf.edu .