Why does interprofessional collaboration matter The Triple Aim in Healthcare 3/7

Welcome to Collaboration and Communication in Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, offered by the University of California, San Francisco, on Coursera. This course will bring together students from different fields to interact and learn in a way that introduces them to the seamless teamwork of interprofessional collaborative practice that successful modern patient care delivery requires. Using simulations, interviews, studies, and case-based scenarios, modules will discuss the various roles of healthcare professionals, leadership, challenges of working in complex and adaptive care, and communication skills.
The course includes a multidisciplinary faculty who will present tools to improve students' collaborative health practice; even for students not directly interested in healthcare, this course can increase one's ability to communicate, resolve conflicts, and understand group dynamics.