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A set of several documents describing the work by Bruce E. Spivey and Gary M. Arsham in the 1970s to create a School of Health Professions in collaboration with the University of the Pacific at what is now the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.

The School of Health Professions was designed to address commonly recognized deficiencies in the education of health professionals and in the contemporary delivery of health care. The School focuses on primary health care, interprofessional education and care delivery, and self-paced curricula.

The proposed school would initially educate five to six categories of health professions students: the primary care physician, the primary care dentist, the health care coordinator (a new profession that combines some of the patient-care coordinating functions now partially performed by secretary/receptionists and medical and dental assistants), the nurse practitioner, the graduate social worker, and possibly the clinical pharmacist.

The major features of the new School of Health Professions include:

• A variety of kinds of health professionals educated together in one school by one faculty;
• A curriculum focused on primary care, with most clinical training to occur in ambulatory-care settings, including one or more model clinical units to be developed by the School;
• A faculty trained to have teaching as well as health-care delivery and research skills;
• A modular curriculum organized around specific patient problems and professional tasks

Report and Appendices were submitted to the Bureau of Health Resources Development in fulfillment of contract NO1-PE-24238.

1. Introductory Overview: Introduction to the documents and project by the authors.
2. Final Report on a New School of Health Professions Volume I: Describes the School of Health Professions (SHP) and specifies the requirements for its implementation.  
3. Appendices to the Final Report on a New School of Health Professions Volume II
4. SHP Curriculum Development: Describes a curricular plan and developmental method that make it possible for multiple categories of health professionals to learn together in a self-paced fashion. A cost efficient method used to develop three prototype study guides in obesity, hypertension and diabetes mellitus is described.
5. The United Way: Article in Biomedical Communications discussing the curricular plan and developmental method of the proposed school.
6. A Proposed School of Health Professions: Team Delivery of Primary Ambulatory Care: Describes the major educational concepts and clinical plans for the proposed School, emphasizing throughout the manner in which SHP students’ educational experience will differ from that of students in more traditional programs, and the carefully designed interrelationships between the School and health care delivery. A summary of plans and considerations for implementing the School is also included.
7. RIME Presentation: Presentation given describing the project.