Courses & Opportunities

Through observing and/or participating in interprofessional team interactions, learners have the opportunity to analyze the nature of the interactions as well as the impact on their patients/clients/family.

The module is structured so that students will complete online reading/self-assessment in week 1. This is expected to take 60 minutes. We will use that information from the self-assessment, along with their discipline, to create teams the following week. Students will then meet in teams in weeks 3 and 4 either in person, via telephone, or via video chat for 60 minutes and discuss several short vignettes and explore strategies for resolving conflict.

The power to save lives is in your hands. Effective teamwork is the difference between life and death in healthcare. Even the most brilliant care teams can fail without effective collaboration. This course equips you with the toolkit to build dream teams that get results. In this course, we explore such questions as: what are the characteristics of effective teams in healthcare? What are the most powerful factors that allow interprofessional teams to build up their power as a collective entity? Why do some teams thrive and others struggle? What are some evidence-based strategies and technology solutions for achieving behavioral changes? This is not just theory – you will put it into practice. Using simulations, real-world data, and case analyses, you will learn to apply data science tools and techniques to analyze team processes and outcomes. Guest speakers from across Michigan Medicine will share their expertise and insights into optimizing interprofessional collaboration and team assessment. You will work o

The power to save lives is in your hands. Effective teamwork is the difference between life and death in healthcare. Even the most brilliant care teams can fail without effective collaboration. This course equips you with the toolkit to build dream teams that get results. In this course, we explore such questions as: what are the characteristics of effective teams in healthcare? What are the most powerful factors that allow interprofessional teams to build up their power as a collective entity? Why do some teams thrive and others struggle? What are some evidence-based strategies and technology solutions for achieving behavioral changes? This is not just theory – you will put it into practice. Using simulations, real-world data, and case analyses, you will learn to apply data science tools and techniques to analyze team processes and outcomes. Guest speakers from across Michigan Medicine will share their expertise and insights into optimizing interprofessional collaboration and team assessment. You will work o

The Human Trafficking Lab is a social justice innovation space where multidisciplinary student teams use design thinking to research, incubate, and build replicable, scalable, and disruptive solutions to reduce vulnerability to trafficking. We believe the law is an incomplete, imperfect solution to reducing exploitation and that interdisciplinary, cross-industry collaboration is necessary. Thus, the Lab is geared towards creating systems level change at policy, service, and industry levels through collaborative partnerships across the nonprofit, corporate, and governmental sectors.

This course provides students from a wide variety of backgrounds an asynchronous, engaging, practical, and interactive way to understand the US healthcare system and gain insight about how they can improve the system. The course highlights the expertise of many U-M faculty regarding the US healthcare system and US health policy.

A zombie-themed biopreparedness drill that for students from public health, medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and social work. The zombies in this drill represented a worst-case scenario: a natural disaster, major disease outbreak or bioterrorism. The zombie invasion allowed students to assist local public health officials to practice their emergency response plans, which should translate for any type of disaster. For Washtenaw County Public Health, the collaboration provided an opportunity to exercise emergency plans and work with local partners and volunteers.