Interprofessional Links
University of
British Columbia's College of Health Disciplines - Interdisciplinary
Course Offerings
The College of Health Disciplines is a collaboration of seven faculties (Agricultural
Sciences, Applied Sciences, Arts, Dentistry, Education, Medicine, Pharmaceutical
Sciences) and occupies a unique place in the University.
The College provides leadership in collectively fostering and supporting a learning environment and courses of instruction that focus on interprofessional and interdisciplinary education, in accord with the provincial University Act.
Minnesota Rural
Health School
The Rural Health School recruits students from a variety of disciplines including
medicine, nursing, physican assistant, pharmacy, public health and social work.
Through interdisciplinary team work, students gain an appreciation of the strengths
that each discipline brings to the health care team and learn how to work together
to deliver quality and cost-effective health care. Through the MRHS community-based
curriculum, students learn directly the rewards and challenges of practicing
in a rural setting.
Interdisciplinary
Curriculum Design and Assessment - Guidelines for Planning
(Adapted from Carla Mathison and Cheryl Mason, College of Education, San Diego
State University, Planning Interdisciplinary Curriculum: A Systematic and Cooperative
Approach; presentation to: ASCD Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, 1989)
Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation [Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development]
Interdisciplinarity [A working document from the University of Calgary]
IME Video Library (from
UW-Madison)
The Innovations in Medical Education program has launched an online video
library featuring speakers on a wide variety of topics, many of them crossing
disciplinary or professional boundaries. Currently all programs are from
non-curricular presentations at the Health Sciences Learning Center.
