Saint Louis University students interested in a range of health professions have opportunities to take classes with students from other health disciplines. Through joint learning experiences, students become more effective at collaborating with others to create better health outcomes for patients.
Interprofessional Education Programs
Undergraduate students can integrate Interprofessional Education into their academic experience through a minor or concentration in interprofessional practice.
Explore the Interprofessional Practice Concentration
Explore the Interprofessional Practice Minor
Interprofessional Team Seminar
Students in SLU's health professions programs also participate in Interprofessional Education through an integrated and longitudinal series of four interprofessional team seminars. Grounded in the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, these case-based seminars utilize a problem-based learning format where challenges to patient care are addressed by improved interprofessional collaboration, communication and coordination of care. Faculty facilitators support the student teams in learning experiences designed to have students practice and demonstrate collaborative collaborative behaviors to complete the activity.
The Interprofessional Team Seminar learning experiences approach interprofessional teamwork from the perspective of patient safety and quality care and utilizes a model where high-reliability, quality care is the product of individual professional skills, teamwork skills, and effective systems/processes of care.
Students are assigned to six-person teams of students representing multiple professions and faculty from all constituent units to support the facilitation of the small group activity sessions. Brief readings and patient-case reviews are provided to prepare for each seminar, and the Interprofessional Education core competencies for collaborative practice have been embedded so that the students must practice them to accomplish the case outcome goals. Quantitative and qualitative assessments are utilized to determine the student's ability to apply lessons learned from the seminars in a clinical setting.