Prerequisites: Enrollment by College/Department
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional first-year independent didactic course introducing the IPEC Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice using online modules and group discussions regarding case studies. May be complete as a prerequisite to All Professions Day 1/2, or in lieu of All Professions Day 1/2 - as determined by individual programs.
Course Component: Lecture, Asynchronous
Delivery method: Canvas, 4 clock hrs.
Students are assigned by their program to participate in this activity. Please consult with program faculty for enrollment details.
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional first of a two-part series of interprofessional educational sessions will engage students in education related to the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice including: roles and responsibilities, and communication. Students will be assigned to an interprofessional student team and will participate in a variety of active learning assignments under the guidance of a team facilitator. Course is offered each fall semester, the Friday of Labor Day week.
Course Component: Lecture, Synchronous
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hrs.
Students are assigned by their program to participate in this activity. Please consult with program faculty for enrollment details.
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional second of a two-part series of interprofessional educational sessions will engage students in education related to the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice including: teams and teamwork, and values and ethics. Students will be assigned to an interprofessional student team and will participate in a variety of active learning assignments under the guidance of a team facilitator. Course is offered each spring semester, the last Friday of February.
Course Component: Lecture, Synchronous
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hrs.
Students are assigned by their program to participate in this activity. Please consult with program faculty for enrollment details.
IPE 4: Bridges to Access Day of Service
Description: Experiential learning with focus on community as team-member. Hands-on service learning with community agencies. Will provide an opportunity for interprofessional student teams to engage in non-health team-building while still engaging with the community.
Course Component: Service Learning
Delivery method: In Person, 2 clock hrs.
Contact the Bridges 2 Access registered student organization for additional details.
Sign up for the simulations can be completed through program faculty or directly on Give Pulse.
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional team huddle simulation delivered via zoom. Teams will practice rapid team formation, team communication, and team planning in a small team environment. Case scenario for team huddle topic has been created by community members who are self-advocates and family-advocates with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hours each.
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional team huddle simulation delivered via zoom. Teams will practice rapid team formation, team communication, and team planning in a small team environment. Case scenario for team huddle topic has been created by community members who are self-advocates with background in difficult conversations around sexual health history.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hours each.
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional team huddle simulation delivered via zoom. Teams will practice rapid team formation, team communication, and team planning in a small team environment. Teams will rotate through two scenarios where each team member practices receiving and/or delivering bad news.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hours each.
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional team huddle simulation delivered via zoom. Teams will practice rapid team formation, team communication, and team planning in a small team environment. Teams will utilize a variety of scenarios to consider the role of poverty on clients/patients and their future role as health science practitioners in Oklahoma and beyond.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hours each.
Note: An in-person Poverty Simulation can be scheduled upon request.
NOTE: THIS ACTIVITY IS ON HOLD FOR FALL 2025
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional project is aimed at reducing readmission rates for patients with Sepsis as well as teaching students how to effectively address the social determinants of health in a health literate way. Many times, the care that we give the patient is above their level of understanding – through this simulation and hospital experience working with Sepsis patients, it is our goal to cultivate effective healthcare communicators! Students will have the opportunity to work in an interprofessional team consisting of nursing, medicine, social work, PT/OT, pharmacy, and nutrition. Through simulations and hospital experience, students will employ social determinants of health and health literacy screenings to help identify potential barriers in patient care. Upon identification, students will be trained to effectively communicate those barriers to ensure the patient understands how to overcome them upon discharge.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hrs. each
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," the interprofessional experience Healthy Weight Simulation is created by health practitioners and community members with lived experience. This team-based simulation will provide valuable insights into the challenges faced by individuals of higher weights. Step into the shoes of patients, understand the impact of weight awareness, and foster empathy to provide non-judgmental, patient-centered care for stronger provider-patient relationships, and a welcoming health care environment.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hrs. each
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional communication simulation will introduce learners to core concepts related to substance use disorders. Substance Use Disorders (SUD) can affect anyone, from any community, at any age. Following a recorded case, teams will then practice rapid team formation to decide on a plan of care. Content for the course was created by health practitioners and those with lived experience from the community.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: Zoom, 2 clock hrs. each
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional communication simulation will introduce learners to core concepts related to substance use disorders. Following a recorded case, teams will then practice rapid team formation to decide on a plan of care. Content for the course was created by health practitioners and those with lived experience from the community. - As a follow-up to the introductory simulation, this team-based encounter will add additional components of team based treatment and add additional content related to Eating Disorders.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: Varies, 2 clock hrs. each
Note: An in-person Advanced SUD Simulation with use of peer-to-peer educators can be scheduled upon request.
IPE 13: Unity Clinic Spanish Interpretation
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan Pillar to "Empower Students for a Life of Success, Meaning, and Impact," this interprofessional in-person simulation hosted at the Interdisciplinary Learning Building allows student teams to practice patient intake in both English and Spanish. Patients are portrayed by student peer-to-peer educators who have completed training and/or are native speakers. Skills include rooming the patient, taking basic vitals, and obtaining reason for visit in both languages.
Course Components: Didactic and Laboratory/Simulation
Delivery method: In-person, 2 clock hrs. each
Enrollment in Unity Clinic rotations is either coordinated by program faculty or available through Give Pulse.
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan pillar to "Life the health of Oklahoma," this hands-on, direct-patient care experience addresses access to care issues. Students perform in an interprofessional team facilitated by a team leader and supervised by a medical attending and/or respective specialists. The program will specifically focus on the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice among health professionals as an important aspect to the delivery of high-quality patient care. Coursework includes asynchronous didactic material made available on Canvas, just in time onboarding at clinic site and multiple team-based patient encounters in a primary care setting.
Course Components: Lecture, Clinical
Delivery method: In-Person, 4 clock hr. minimum
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan pillar to "Life the health of Oklahoma," this hands-on, direct-patient care experience addresses access to care issues. Students perform in an interprofessional team facilitated by a team leader and supervised by a medical attending and/or respective specialists. The program will specifically focus on the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice among health professionals as an important aspect to the delivery of high-quality patient care. Coursework includes asynchronous didactic material made available on Canvas, just in time onboarding at clinic site and multiple team-based patient encounters in a speech and hearing clinic setting.
Course Components: Lecture, Clinical
Delivery method: In-Person, 4 clock hr. minimum
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan pillar to "Life the health of Oklahoma," this hands-on, direct-patient care experience addresses access to care issues. Students perform in an interprofessional team facilitated by a team leader and supervised by a medical attending and/or respective specialists. The program will specifically focus on the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice among health professionals as an important aspect to the delivery of high-quality patient care. Coursework includes asynchronous didactic material made available on Canvas, just in time onboarding at clinic site and multiple team-based patient encounters in an adult outpatient neurology clinic setting.
Course Components: Lecture, Clinical
Delivery method: In-Person, 4 clock hr. minimum
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan pillar to "Life the health of Oklahoma," this hands-on, direct-patient care experience addresses access to care issues. Students perform in a student-led, interprofessional clinic providing team-based care to the community, in the community, with the community. Focused on communities near/around OU Health Sciences, throughout Oklahoma. May include a variety of settings including vaccine clinics, school-based outreach, faith-based outreach partnership, community agencies, city/county/state health departments, food resource centers, or other spaces where health outreach occurs within communities. Learning objectives are tied to the core Unity Clinic experience focused on the IPEC Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice.
Course Components: Lecture, Clinical
Delivery method: In-Person, 2 Hours Minimum
IPE 18: Interprofessional Education Elective
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan pillar to "Empower students for a life of success, meaning, and impact," interprofessional education electives engage learners from across the University to learn about, from, and with each other in meaningful and transformational ways. Content must be aligned to one of the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and include learners from two or more professions. Content and specific learning outcomes will vary by activity. Examples of interprofessional education electives include: Graduate College Professional Development Series, the Reproductive Health Symposium, and the annual Bridges to Access Conference.
Course Components: Varies
Delivery method: Varies, 2 clock hrs.
Description: Following the Lead On, University Strategic Plan strategy to "Support interdisciplinary scholarship to address grand societal challenges that draw on creative and cultural expertise and scholars from arts, humanities, and social sciences," the interprofessional synthesis experience challenges learners to create new knowledge or meaning from their team based experiences. Content and specific synthesis demonstrations will vary by activity. Examples of interprofessional synthesis experiences include: GREAT Symposium, Unity Week Poster Hall, IPE Internship, IPE Practicum, IPE Directed Reading, or IPE Research Rotation.
Course Components: Varies
Delivery method: Varies, Clock hrs vary
Many of our Colleges and Departments lead interprofessional coursework in addition to our campus-wide offerings. Below is a list of examples from across OU Health Sciences.
See the OU Health Sciences Course Catalog for additional details.
AHS/DH/NURS/PHARM 3003 Interdisciplinary Leadership in Healthcare
Prerequisite: Admission to OU Health Science Campus. This course reviews a standards of excellence and interprofessional competence in health care. It provides the opportunity to learn how interprofessional health professionals can utilize respect and open discourse to address health disparities among an increasingly diverse population while providing the highest quality of care. (Fall, Dec Int Spring, Summer)
From a student response:
"One valuable skill I learned in this course is the significance of respectful and open communication in interprofessional healthcare teams. Before, I didn’t realize how much intentional communication affects teamwork and patient safety. This course emphasized that leaders must create an environment where all team members feel comfortable sharing ideas and concerns without fear of judgment. Moving forward, I will apply this by practicing active listening and encouraging input from all members of the dental care team."
Contact: Margaret-Robinson@ouhsc.edu.
OCTH/PHTH 9391 Interprofessional Case Management
Prerequisites: By instructor permission. Cross-Listed: PHTH 9391 Students learn from and with other professions by participating in interprofessional small groups facilitated by faculty members. Students examine the complex medical, environmental, and societal issues associated with a multi-part clinical scenario and review current literature related to points addressed in small group discussions. (Fall II)
INDT 9407 Fourth Year Selective
Students will be taught via didactics, readings, and direct patient care experiences. They will perform as members of an interprofessional team, facilitated by a faculty team leader and supervised by a qualified faculty attending. The program will focus on IPEC competencies as a basis for delivering high-quality patient care. Teams will follow a student-led operational approach designed by the “Unity Clinic” leadership team.
NS 7113 Interprofessional Nutrition Care and NS 7103 Applied Pediatric Nutrition
12 credit hour online program designed for health care professionals. This program provides evidence-based nutrition education for health professionals and teaches practical and clinically applicable skills while maintaining scope of practice.