Center for Interprofessional Studies

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 announces the inaugural Interprofessional Education Seed Award. The awards will 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.

Timeline

Call for proposals: Open as of January 25, 2023
Proposal Deadline: March 6, 2023
Review by committee in March 2023
Announcement of awards in early April 2023
Funding period: May 1, 2023 – April 30, 2024

How to apply.

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