Interprofessional Healthcare Ethics (IPHE)
This course develops foundational knowledge and basic practical skills to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in clinical practice. This course integrates interprofessional collaboration and teamwork to teach students ethical theory and reasoning, professional ethics and its historical origins, and approaches to health care decision-making.
Individual and Team Paced Collaborative Learning
The Interprofessional Healthcare Ethics (IPHE) is a one-credit, 7- week course in the fall required of health professions students from the dental medicine, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, and physician’s assistant programs at CU Anschutz, and there may be students participating from the anesthesiologist assistant program or the School of Public Health. Using a hybrid design of online modules and synchronous sessions, students engage in ethical analysis, decision-making, and interprofessional collaboration to inspire advocacy and action for an equitable health system.
Course Mission:
Using a history-informed approach to ethics education, this curriculum aims to:
- Cultivate a shared ethical language across disciplines
- Foster ethical and moral awareness and resilience
- Recognize system-level and structural dimensions of ethics
- Create a space for diverse professional perspectives
- Promote ethical leadership
IPE Course Co-Director
- Amy Nordon-Craft, PT, DSc, Physical Therapy Program
IPE Course Co-Director
- Kim Indovina, MD, FAC, FHM, School of Medicine
IPHE Content Director
- Kristin Furfari, MD Center for Bioethics and Humanities
IPE Curriculum Manager & Instructional Designer
- Michelle Colarelli, MA, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
IPE Program Manager & Education Coordinator:
- Reesie Roland, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
IPE Academic Service Professional:
- Jennette Wooley, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education