CURRENT PROJECTS

NIH/Roadmap
Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program
will seek to develop and provide core clinical research didactic content integrated into required curricula and trainees will receive a graduate certificate in basic clinical research on completion of the program requirements.
The need for interdisciplinary clinical investigators, capable of contributing to and leading research teams is enormous and the grant trainees will learn in an environment for peer interaction through program seminars, work-in-progress sessions, participation in Health Science wide colloquia, and informal gatherings; learning and mentoring relationships between predoctoral trainees, postdoctoral career development scholars, and experienced researchers with interdisciplinary team expertise. This program will span three primary health professions (Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing) as well as Pharmacy, Rehabilitation Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Services and Social Work.

Patient Safety Education and Resources
The Patient Safety Website is being developed to provide resources for health professionals and health professions educators to:
      Improve patient safety through educational training
      Train faculty leaders
      Improve interprofessional teaching and learning

Salvation Army Adult Recovery Center (ARC)
Collaboration and Community Site Practicum
• Faculty and students from the Center collaborate with representatives from the Salvation Army ARC to improve health literacy and health outcomes of men and women residents (beneficiaries) of the ARC- Seattle.Professional and interprofessional roles in support of rehabilitation of addicted and recovering men and women are identified. The students and faculty learn to work with and value client input as part of the process of developing health literacy along with addiction and general health recovery plans. Student gain knowledge of the special health care needs of men and women in addiction recovery.
•A Health Advisory Board (HAB) comprised of faculty, students and ARC representatives determines the health-related topics to be covered during the quarter. Faculty and students present health information on a wide variety of topics of interest and importance to the health of the ARC population

Students in the Community/SITC
The Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education is a sponsor for a Student directed Community Site Clinical Project.
Students in the Community is an interprofessional group made up of students from the Schools of Information, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Social Work at the University of Washington. We are dedicated to maintaining our student-run health clinic at the Aloha Inn, a transitional housing facility for the homeless in King County.
The Mission of SITC:
Provide quality community-oriented health services and social service referrals to an underserved community using interdisciplinary teams.
ncrease awareness of social, cultural, and economic issues of underserved populations to the University of Washington health care community.
Promote an ethic of service in University of Washington health science students and harness the resources of the University of Washington health science student community.
Provide service-orientated leadership experience to prepare students for a life of activism.
Work together with organizations who are already serving the community to fill in gaps of need and to expand projects that are effectively serving the population

PAST PROJECTS

• UW Innovative Funds Project:
  "Development and Evaluation of an Interprofessional Health Sciences Certification Examination"
  The goal of the Innovative Funds Project is to develop a UW Health Sciences Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to certify the competence of students graduating from Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Social Work, and Nursing in core skills common to these professionals and in skills specifically required to collaborate in interprofessional teams.

• Macy Bridges Program
  “The MacyInterprofessional Bridges Program: Classroom and Clinical Linkages in the Health Sciences Curricula”, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, 12/1/02-11/30/03 Principle Investigator, Pamela Mitchell, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA
  The Macy Interprofessional Bridges Program: Classroom and Clinical Linkages in the Health Sciences Curricula was a three year project with the goal of sustaining and extending classroom and clinical interprofessional education into the required curricula of the six University of Washington Health Science Schools (Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health & Community Medicine, and Social Work) and the Information School.
  
  
• FLIEPPS
  “Faculty Leadership in Interprofessional Education to Promote Patient Safety” Cooperative agreement from the Division of Medicine and Dentistry and the Division of Nursing, Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr), Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) under grant number 5 D50 HP 10006, 9/30/01-9/29/04 Co-Investigators, Pamela Mitchell, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA and Lynne Robins, PhD
  Faculty Leadership in Interprofessional Education to Promote Patient Safety project is working to develop, pilot test, evaluate, and disseminate a curriculum for the collaborative education of health professionals in leadership and interprofessional teaching and learning to promote patient safety.
  
  
• HSPICE
  “Health Sciences Partnerships in Interprofessional Clinical Education” University of Washington University Initiative Funds, 7/01/97-6/30/03 Principle Investigator, Pamela Mitchell, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAHA
  Health Sciences Partnerships in Interprofessional Clinical Education, a University Initiatives Fund program, has developed the infrastructure and elective courses to support interprofessional learning and care for urban chronically ill and medically underserved people.