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.

This IPE offers a valuable opportunity to challenge assumptions, reduce stigma, and strengthen collaborative skills while learning how interprofessional teamwork shapes patient care.

We recommend completing this IPE before participating in other IPEs.
 
Foundations of Interprofessionalism is open to all professions to explore the vital roles each profession plays in collaborative care. Teams of 4 –6 students engage in rich discussions, 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.

*It's recommended and requested students complete this IPE before other topics.

Over the course of one week, interprofessional teams of 4 - 6 students engage in rich discussion, sharing perspectives about their professional responsibilities, explore vital roles each profession plays in collaborative care and learn how teamwork directly affects patient outcomes.

What makes this session especially powerful is hearing directly from patients, and teams reflect on patient's experience. Past participants stated this event is eye-opening and deeply meaningful, offering a firsthand look at how interprofessional collaboration saves lives.

This self-paced 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.

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. 

Over the course of one week, this IPE highlights how 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.

This self-paced 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.

Obesity is sometimes framed as a personal failing -but in healthcare, that perspective can reinforce stigma and overlook the root causes. This IPE invites students 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 IPE offers a valuable opportunity to challenge assumptions, reduce stigma, and strengthen collaborative skills while learning how interprofessional teamwork shapes patient care.

This self-paced IPE 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.

This 3 hour in-person (Tucson) simulation 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.

💡 What would it feel like to be a patient whose pain is misunderstood—or whose substance use is judged? Learn how different professional perspectives contribute to safer, more compassionate care. 

This IPE offers an advanced, application-focused experience where learners apply SBIRT strategies in a team-based clinical scenario, building on foundational knowledge in pain and substance misuse. 

Over the course of one week, students will develop and apply skills for recognizing and assessing signs of pain, risky substance use, and substance use disorder. After individual preparation, students watch an ideal scenario and then create a discussion and role-play around a case-based scenario. 

By the end of the session, students recognize not only the challenges of pain and substance misuse, but also concrete ways their profession can contribute to more effective, compassionate care.

This self-paced 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.

Step into a dynamic, team-based healthcare environment where collaboration is essential to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care. Teams of 4-6 students work together and chat with a patient using the Virtual Outpatient Clinic to develop person-centered therapeutic communication skills.

Teams are evaluated on four key skills: building rapport, eliciting a full list of patient concerns, responding with empathy, and demonstrating interprofessional awareness. This experience emphasizes the human side of team-based care and helps learners recognize how communication and collaboration influence the patient experience.

This self-paced 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.

*It's recommended and requested students complete this IPE before other topics.

Over the course of one week, interprofessional teams of 4 - 6 students engage in rich discussion, sharing perspectives about their professional responsibilities, explore vital roles each profession plays in collaborative care and learn how teamwork directly affects patient outcomes.

What makes this session especially powerful is hearing directly from patients, and teams reflect on patient's experience. Past participants stated this event is eye-opening and deeply meaningful, offering a firsthand look at how interprofessional collaboration saves lives.

This self-paced 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.

Event Timeframe

January - TBD -  2027.

Registration Link

Student registration 

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.

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.

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.

💡 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.

Cannabis is Legal, Now What? 

This self-paced 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.

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.