Academic Calendar 2025-2026
CTIPH Certified Interprofessional Education (IPE) Events
Fall 2025 Events
Introduction to Interprofessionalism (Online)
Exclusive Registration for Clinical Professions: Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy
Self-registration is not available. Students are directly enrolled by their college.
This online interprofessional experience brings together students from Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy to explore the vital roles each profession plays in collaborative care. Teams of 5–7 students engage in rich discussion, sharing perspectives about their professional responsibilities and learning how teamwork directly affects patient outcomes.
What makes this session especially powerful is hearing directly from patients. After watching a video that recounts a traumatic episode and the lifesaving care they received, teams reflect together on the patient’s experience and the collaborative behaviors that made a difference.
According to past participants, this event is not only eye-opening—it’s deeply meaningful, offering a firsthand look at how interprofessional collaboration saves lives.
Event Date
September 10, 2025, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Pandemic Emergency Planning (asynchronous)
Registration deadline: 9/15/25, 8 AM
Exclusive registration for: Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health
Step into the role of city leaders facing a public health crisis. In this high-intensity simulation, student teams represent Arizona communities—complete with demographic data and patient scenarios—and must work together to design and implement an emergency response.
This event requires scheduling time with teammates for a group meeting. The meeting time is independently decided by each team. The event takes approximately 2-hours to complete.
The experience highlights how medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health professionals unite under pressure to make life-saving decisions. Guided by a multidisciplinary faculty team, and led by Dr. Richard Carmona, the 17th U.S. Surgeon General - participants gain first-hand insight into the power of interprofessional teamwork when it matters most.
Event Timeframe
September 29, 2025 - October 10, 2025.
Registration Links
Student registration | Facilitator Registration
Pain & Substance Misuse (Online)
Registration Deadline: 9/22/2025, 8:00 AM
Registration will close once capacity is reached or by the deadline, whichever comes first. Please register early if you are interested.
💡 What would it feel like to be a patient whose pain is misunderstood—or whose substance use is judged?
This interprofessional event brings together students from all health professions to address one of today’s most urgent healthcare challenges: pain and substance misuse. Through a case-based team discussion, students learn how different professional perspectives contribute to safer, more compassionate care.
In this session, participants will:
- Examine the relationship between trauma and substance use
- Consider how stigma influences patient care and outcomes
- Learn risk-reduction messages and resources
- Work collaboratively on a patient case
By the end of the session, students recognize not only the challenges of pain and substance misuse but also the concrete ways their profession can contribute to more effective, compassionate care.
This IPE is open to students from any profession.
Event Dates (Same event repeated)
October 14, 2025, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
October 16, 2025, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Registration Links
AZ Cannabis (Online)
Registration Deadline: October 13, 2025, 8:00 AM
Cannabis is Legal, Now What? This IPE is a 2-hour online introduction to Cannabis epidemiology, treatment, and safety recommendations in the context of legalization. In this activity, students will be introduced to information and invited to reflect on and discuss the implications that legalized cannabis: pubic health and epidemiology, clinical considerations, and communication during a team-based scenario. This event covers a range of fields, including medicine, pharmacy, public health, and social work, among others.
This IPE is open to students from any profession.
Event Dates
November 6, 2025, 1:00 – 3:00 PM
November 7, 2025, 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Registration Links
Weight Neutral Health (Asynchronous)
Registration Deadline: November 3, 2025, 8:00 AM
Obesity is sometimes framed as a personal failing—but in healthcare, that perspective can reinforce stigma and overlook the root causes. This interprofessional experience invites students from all professions to explore obesity as a public health issue through a weight-neutral lens.
Over the course of one week, students will engage in a mix of individual reflection, team discussions, and a group project. This event requires scheduling time with teammates for a group meeting. The meeting time is independently decided by each team. The total workload is about two hours spread across the week.
Open to all professions, this IPE offers a valuable opportunity to challenge assumptions, reduce stigma, and strengthen collaborative skills while learning how interprofessional teamwork shapes patient care.
Event Dates:
November 17–21, 2025
Registration Links
Global Health (In-person)
Registration Deadline: November 3, 2025, 8:00 AM
Registration will close once capacity is reached or by the deadline, whichever comes first. Please register early if you are interested.
This 3 hour in-person (Tucson) interprofessional event places students in a realistic global health simulation, where they face the practical and emotional challenges of providing care in resource-limited settings. Teams of students from Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health work together without all the tools or technologies typically available.
By the end, students gain a deeper appreciation of how interprofessional teamwork, cultural humility, and ethical conduct directly impact care in global health settings.
Tucson Campus Event Dates
November 21, 2025, 1:00 – 3:45 PM
Registration Links
Spring 2026 Events
Clinical Tobacco Cessation (Asynchronous)
Registration Closes: January 19, 2026, 8:00 AM
Tobacco use remains one of the leading causes of preventable illness and death, and healthcare providers play a critical role in helping patients quit.
In this interprofessional experience, students from Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy collaborate to build practical skills in tobacco cessation, including the use of motivational interviewing to encourage and empower patients to break free from tobacco’s hold.
Participants will meet with their team and complete an assignment together during the week. This event requires scheduling time with teammates for a group meeting. The meeting time is independently decided by each team.
Through team-based collaboration, students strengthen their ability to communicate across professions, support patient behavior change, and contribute to healthier outcomes.
Event Timeframe
February 2 - 6, 2026
Registration Link
Weight Neutral Health (Asynchronous)
Registration Closes: Jan. 20, 2026, 8:00 AM
Obesity is sometimes framed as a personal failing—but in healthcare, that perspective can reinforce stigma and overlook the root causes. This interprofessional experience invites students from all professions to explore obesity as a public health issue through a weight-neutral lens.
Over the course of one week, students will engage in a mix of individual reflection, team discussions, and a group project. This event requires scheduling time with teammates for a group meeting. The meeting time is independently decided by each team. The total workload is about two hours spread across the week.
Open to all professions, this IPE offers a valuable opportunity to challenge assumptions, reduce stigma, and strengthen collaborative skills while learning how interprofessional teamwork shapes patient care.
Event Timeframe:
February 9-13, 2026
Registration Links
Pain & Substance Misuse (Online)
Registration Closes: FEB. 2, 2026, 8:00 AM, for February event
💡 What would it feel like to be a patient whose pain is misunderstood—or whose substance use is judged?
This IPE brings together students from all health professions to address one of today’s most urgent healthcare challenges: pain and substance misuse. Through a case-based team discussion, students learn how different professional perspectives contribute to safer, more compassionate care.
In this session, participants will:
- Examine the relationship between trauma and substance use
- Consider how stigma influences patient care and outcomes
- Learn risk-reduction messages and resources
- Work collaboratively on a patient case
By the end of the session, students recognize not only the challenges of pain and substance misuse but also the concrete ways their profession can contribute to more effective, compassionate care.
This IPE is open to students from any profession.
Event Dates (Same event repeated)
February 24, 2026, 10:00 – 12:00 PM
February 27, 2026, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Registration Links
Disabilities (Online)
Registration Closes: TBD
This IPE is a 2-hour online event that introduces students to important topics in the lives of people with disabilities. The case-based exercise teaches teams of 5-7 students the roles and functions of an interprofessional team in the delivery of patient-centered care for persons with disabilities.
Event Dates - TBD
Monday, March TBD, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Thursday, March TBD, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Friday, March TBD, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Registration Links
Climate & Health (In-person: TUCSON)
Registration closes: March 23, 8AM for April event.
Climate change is no longer a distant issue—it is already shaping the health of patients and communities worldwide. This interprofessional event in TUCSON places students from Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health into a case-based scenario that highlights the real health challenges created by a changing environment.
Working together in interprofessional teams, participants discuss and better understand climate-related health impacts and explore how collaborative responses.
Event Dates
Friday, April 17, 2026, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration Links
Summer 2026 Events
Monthly Interprofessional Mobile Health Unit Experiences
Wellness For Healthcare Professionals
Registration Deadline: TBD: Not scheduled yet.
Introducing the RenewU Program—a transformative, 4-week asynchronous Interprofessional Education (IPE) session designed specifically for healthcare professionals. Students spend approximately 45 minutes during each phase. This evidence-based program draws from over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles to provide practical interventions that prevent burnout and foster resilience in challenging environments. This event requires scheduling time with teammates for a group meeting. The meeting time is independently decided by each team. This event has limited seats.
Event Date:
Will be available at a future date.
Registration Links
Student Registration | Flyer Download | Volunteer Registration
CTIPH Partner IPEs
In-person Lab Simulations in Tucson
Interprofessional education (IPE) plays an important role in completing a student's healthcare learning journey. ASTEC provides a variety of IPE simulations, all of which are available any UArizona Health Sciences student. These activities are all one-hour in length and held in the ASTEC lab in the Health Science Education Building. There are several simulations available, that will assess your strengths and weaknesses and team building skills. The simulations are held in a smaller setting, and spaces are limited.
In-person, credit-bearing IPE course
Health Sciences Design Core Courses are credit bearing courses that are open to any student on campus interested in exploring human-centered approaches to meeting health care needs. This is an interprofessional program that engages undergraduate, graduate and professional students in problem-solving for human health. The program offers a unique innovation space that includes advanced equipment and expert faculty and staff. Along with design thinking, courses allow students to explore ways to improve human health through human-centered and community-based practices, interprofessional collaboration, and the use of emerging research and technology.