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 2-hour online IPE is specifically designed to enhance the understanding of professional roles and responsibilities, clinician scope of practice, and collaborative team behaviors among students and professionals in the fields of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy.
Teams of 5-7 students will have the opportunity to explore their own roles, educate other students about their profession, and learn how collaborative teamwork can promote positive patient outcomes.
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
The Pandemic Emergency Planning IPE lasts under 2 hours and engages student teams working through an asynchronous simulation. Each team represents an Arizona city—complete with demographic data and patient scenarios—and collaborates to develop and implement an emergency response plan. This IPE highlights the critical importance of working across professional lines. Facilitation is provided by a multidisciplinary faculty team from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health, led by Dr. Richard Carmona, the 17th U.S. Surgeon General.
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.
The Pain & Substance Misuse IPE is a 2-hour online interprofessional event that introduces learners to pain and substance misuse. Students learn about risk reduction messages and resources, how to identify the relationship between trauma and substance use, how to respond an opioid overdose using naloxone, and work together in a team on a case.
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
This IPE is offered as a one-week asynchronous module, which explores concepts related to the public health issue of obesity within a weight-neutral model. There is individual work, team discussions and a group project. The workload is approximately three hours over the week for this valuable learning experience.
This IPE is open to any profession of student.
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 interprofessional event uses a simulation curriculum focused on common challenges, both practical and emotional, faced when working in resource-limited settings. Students from the colleges of medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and public health learn to demonstrate high standards of ethical conduct and quality of care in their contributions to team-based care.
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
During the asynchronous 1-2 hour Clinical Tobacco Cessation IPE, healthcare students acquire tobacco cessation skills, collaborate with other professions, and practice 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. The meeting time is independently decided by each team.
Registration is limited to: Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy.
Event Timeframe
February 2 - 6, 2026
Registration Link
Weight Neutral Health (Asynchronous)
Registration Closes: Jan. 20, 2026, 8:00 AM
This IPE, a one-week asynchronous module, explores concepts related to the public health issue of obesity within a weight-neutral model. The workload is approximately three hours over the week, ensuring you can plan and prepare for this valuable learning experience.
This IPE is open to all UA students, including ASU & NAU students.
Event Timeframe:
February 9-13, 2026
Registration Links
Pain & Substance Misuse (Online)
Registration Closes: FEB. 2, 2026, 8:00 AM, for February event
The Pain & Substance Misuse IPE is a 2-hour online interprofessional event that introduces learners to pain and substance misuse. Students learn about risk reduction messages and resources, how to identify the relationship between trauma and substance use, how to respond an opioid overdose using naloxone, and work together in a team on a case.
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
Applying SBIRT Strategies to Substance Misuse (Asynchronous)
Date TBD
Registration is not available yet.
This 2-week asynchronous IPE event builds on the Pain & Substance Misuse IPE. Student teams watch an ideal patient encounter and then work on a case together. Students learn about risk reduction messages, resources, and practice providing a Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT).
This IPE is open to all UA students.
Event Dates
TBD
Registration Links
Climate & Health
TBD
The IPE session on Climate Change and Health is a case-based scenario, designed for students from multiple professions including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health. This IPE experience aims to contribute to participants knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to understand and collaboratively respond to the health implications of climate change impacting their respective fields of practice.
Event Dates
TBD. This event has not been scheduled yet.
Registration Link
Summer 2026 Events
Monthly Interprofessional Mobile Health Unit Experiences
Climate & Health (In-person)
Registration Deadline TBD: Not scheduled yet
ClimateFresk is a collaborative, science-based workshop designed to increase awareness and understanding of climate change. It is an interactive game based on reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
This in-person, team-based IPE event is held at both the Tucson and Gilbert campuses that focuses on climate challenges.
For additional information please contact, Dr. Penny Overgaard, povergaard@arizona.edu or Dr. Lauren Acosta, heller@arizona.edu.
Registration Links
Student Registration | Volunteer Registration - Will be available at a future date.
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 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.