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Interprofessional education, now in its sixth year at UCSF, is more ambitious and far-reaching at the university than ever before.
“Getting excited from the ground up is what we want to promote; there is more energy this year. And it’s pretty cool that UCSF is making this a cornerstone of our education now.” - Joshua Biddle, president of the Associated Students of UCSF (ASUC)
About 475 future doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and physical therapists met recently in UCSF’s Millberry Union gym to kick off Interprofessional Health Education Day, a mandatory event for all first-year students in UCSF’s health professions. “The goal is to try to find ways to learn the curriculum together,” said
Renee Courey, PhD, a mentor who is coordinator of UCSF’s
Pathways to Discovery, an interprofessional training program.
“Each profession tells different stories about patient care. For example, nurses often tell stories that emphasize loss and suffering. Physicians tell stories of restitution and recovery. Pharmacists tell stories of the miracles wrought by a single drug. But all of these stories have patients and their families at their heart, and we must share our mutual perspectives and our stories if we are to become a highly functioning team.” - Kathleen Dracup, Keynote Speaker
