Changes in health care are prompting academic health sciences centers to redefine their health sciences curricula and learning facilities. Their challenges are significant:

• Managing (or supporting) the outcomes of curricular innovations, expanding programs, and community engagement—while faced with reduced funding at the state and federal levels;
• Training more professionals to fill the gaps in the delivery of patient care;
• Keeping pace with the rapid changes in delivering patient care, both in inpatient and outpatient settings.

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Discover how factors like multi-institutional partnerships, team-based learning environments, and utilization analysis for sharing resources will support an interprofessional education model for the next generation of healthcare providers.

Presenters will address the institutional challenges, management and operation issues, and benefits of an interprofessional health sciences campus from an owner/ facility planner's perspective. Presenters will discuss the value of performing space utilization analysis in the planning and design process to gain consensus and verify program needs.

They will also focus on the trends and issues that are driving academic health sciences institutions to re-envision their learning facilities. Discuss how curricular changes and the interprofessional model are directly affecting learning environments, space metrics, and facility design by presenting comparisons between medical-only facilities and the PBC's Health Sciences Education Building.

The Phoenix Biomedical Campus (PBC) and other health sciences programs will be used as illustrations for leading-edge facilities that set the stage for new ways of educating students from different disciplines—for example, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and physician assistant—in interprofessional teams, whereby they learn one another’s roles and means of communicating.

Presenters are Nancy Tierney, associate dean of facilities and planning at University of Arizona College of Medicine—Phoenix, and Jonathan Kanda, associate principal at CO Architects.

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1. Identify the key issues and trends that drive interprofessional learning models in health sciences education.
2. Evaluate the impact of emerging interprofessional and team-based curricula on health sciences learning environments.
3. Analyze the design and planning metrics for leading-edge health sciences learning spaces, including clinical skills, simulation, and classrooms.
4. Demonstrate how space utilization and scheduling models can provide objective, quantifiable information to help right-size the building program and optimize the sharing of space.