1. PROPOSAL SUMMARY/ABSTRACT

1. Proposal Summary/Abstract

Healthcare workers align on a core principle of wanting to be of service to patients and families. As training advances and we become more specialized, our perception of how we may be of service reciprocally narrows. This unintentionally leads to siloed practice patterns. Advance care planning (ACP) offers a universally unifying opportunity for interprofessional collaboration.

The UCSF Clinical Microsystems Clerkship (CMC)¹ is a curricular innovation that embeds all 330 MS1s and MS2s at SFVAHCS, UCSF and ZSFG, contributing over 10,000 person-hours yearly to advancing health systems improvement. CMC improvement projects are interprofessional. Students interact with, and learn from, nurses, pharmacists, quality improvement experts, and psychologists. While the preceptor and student perspectives of the value of the CMC have been previously explored^2,3, the perspectives of health system leaders regarding this health system/medical school collaboration are unknown. This project will explore the value and impact of early medical students’ health systems improvement efforts from the perspective of approximately 20 interprofessional healthcare system and academic leaders with the goal to produce guidelines that inform the development and evaluation of future CMC projects.

In 21st-century healthcare, there has been a seismic swing toward collaborative, multidisciplinary teams in research to

address complex challenges. This paradigm shift recognizes that problems are increasingly global and resourceintensive,

and solutions require inclusive and collective efforts, termed ‘team science.’ Though some UCSF

researchers are embracing team science approaches, the curriculum is still individual-focused rather than collective

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