Center for Interprofessional Studies

New in Fall 2024: First on the Scene Training

As part of the "Semester of..." series, SHRS Center for Interprofessional Studies is partnering with the Emergency Medicine program to offer First on the Scene (FOTS) training for the SHRS community. First on the Scene training equips individuals with the essential skills to respond to life-threatening emergencies until professional medical help arrives. FOTS is a crucial course for students, staff or faculty who might find themselves in a situation where they are the first person to respond to an accident or medical crisis.

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Interprofessional Education Seed Award

In support of its ongoing mission to further strengthen interprofessional education for students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS), the Center for Interprofessional Studies has coordinated the Interprofessional Education Seed Award. The awards recognize faculty, staff and/or students for projects that enhance interprofessional teaching of SHRS students and foster new events or the expansion of existing events to include students from other programs within SHRS. Project budgets must not exceed $5,000; proposals with total budgets less than $2,500 are strongly encouraged. Projects that include an initiative (e.g. student or continuing education event) related to the ‘Semester Of’ themes (Spring 2024: ‘Innovation & Commercialization’; Fall 2024: ‘First Responders’) are eligible for a $750 bonus award.

2025 Interprofessional Education Seed Award Proposal Application and Requirements

Timeline

Call for proposals: Open as of December 4, 2024
Proposal Deadline: February 7, 2025
Review by CIP Board in February-March 2025
Announcement of awards in spring semester 2025
Funding period: July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026

Read about previous award winners!

About the Center:

Mission

The Center for Interprofessional Studies’ mission is to design, facilitate, support and evaluate SHRS interprofessional education that translates into improved individual and population health outcomes. 

Vision

Our vision is that all SHRS students and alumni are prepared to collaborate across professions to improve population and individual health outcomes through high quality team-based care.

SHRS Center for Interprofessional Studies Competency List

The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Core Competencies serve as a unifying and guiding interprofessional framework throughout the health professions and are embedded into both curriculum and accreditation standards. Through a multi-step process, SHRS stakeholders identified guiding principles unique to our culture, practice, and research. SHRS guiding principles that are described under an IPEC Competency are linked in the same row in the table below. The SHRS CIP vision includes an objective to identify curricular and extracurricular opportunities so that each SHRS student can be exposed to the IPEC Core Competencies and SHRS Guiding Principles prior to graduation.

IPEC Core Competencies (Full description)	SHRS Guiding Principles
Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice	Health Equity and Addressing Disparities
Roles/Responsibilities	Patient/client Communication
Interprofessional Communication	Evidence-based practice \| Measurement-based Care
Teams and Teamwork	Basic Emergency Care
	Community Engagement
	Disabling Ableism
	Holistic Pain Mitigation
	Human-centered Design
	In-home Care
	Innovation and Commercialization Process
	Knowledge Translation
	Quality Improvement
	Telehealth
	Wellness for Providers and Patients/clients
	Science of Behavior Change

Board of Directors:

*Ex Officio: Deans, Chairs, Directors (e.g., MCRE, OOL)

Student Group

The Center for Interprofessional Studies Student Group is welcoming current students to learn more about ways to strengthen interprofessional education in SHRS. The group is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. If you are interested in joining the group, email the student board at issg@shrs.pitt.edu.

Student Board: