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The Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Oncology Palliative Education (iCOPE) is the result of a grant to the University of Louisville to design, implement and evaluate an innovative, integrated, and interprofessional oncology palliative care curriculum for medical, nursing, social work and chaplaincy students. The project was funded by the National Cancer Institute R-25 mechanism in 2010 for 5 years and is ongoing mandatory curriculum for all medical students, nursing students, social work students in health care and chaplaincy residents at the University.

The curriculum 

This HRSA training curriculum on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias contains 16 core modules - each with a PowerPoint presentation including detailed notes and a reference list - to assist in teaching, and other presentations. The curriculum also includes supplemental modules to help providers and caregivers address challenges of the caregiving role. Continuing education contact hours are available for each of the 16 core modules.

The second edition of OHNEP's Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kit is an innovative open-source, user-friendly product for faculty to use for weaving oral health and its links to overall health into their Undergraduate nursing curricula. The undergraduate tool kit is designed to guide faculty in embedding "oral health bytes" into existing undergraduate nursing courses to demonstrate the oral-systemic connection.

The third edition of OHNEP's Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kits are open-source, user-friendly products for faculty to use for weaving oral health and its links to overall health into their Nurse Practitioner and Midwifery curricula. The latest versions of our Tool Kits align with the new AACN Essentials (2021), the NONPF Competencies (2022), ACNM Core Competencies (2020), HRSA Oral Health Competencies (2014), and IPEC Interprofessional Competencies (2016), and include up-to-date clinical practice guidelines and standards for integrating oral health into nurse practitioner and

Interprofessional Case Management Experience Students from multiple disciplines will meet together to consider a case, develop an interprofessional care plan, share documentation, and resolve a simulated case scenario. 

A rigorous 2-semester curriculum for the Certificate in Integrated Primary Care and Behavioral Health was designed and implemented as a 1-year training and evaluation tool with 22 BH-PC students. The curriculum was deigned through collaboration and integration from social work, counseling psychology and psychiatric nursing as a way to build upon the disciplines similarities and guide the students into a collaborative interdisciplinary perspective with their BH VOAs.

The Interprofessional Curriculum for Care of Older Adults (iCCOA), is a project funded by HRSA to develop and evaluate an interdisciplinary geriatric curriculum for medical, nursing, social work, counseling psychology, pharmacy, dentistry, and law students, fellows and residents. Other learners include professional health care workers, community organizers, peer mentors and frontline workers.

Escape rooms are a current fad sweeping across the county in which teams of players are usually “locked” in a room and have to solve a series of puzzles serially or in parallel to “escape” the room. This escape room concept was adapted at the University of Minnesota with the intention that teams of interprofessional students would work together to complete a series of puzzles found throughout the room. The experiences are embedded in a health care case scenario. This innovative gaming simulation can improve interprofessional communication and team skills.

The task of developing large-scale interprofessional education (IPE) across multiple health professions schools to meet accreditation standards is daunting.

Understanding the connection between climate and health is essential for health professionals of all disciplines.

Climate Change and Health: An Interprofessional Response consists of nine short slide decks that can be utilized to introduce the connection between climate change and health to health professionals. They are intended to be used by instructors and programs when teaching about the connection between climate and health in existing courses.

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