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== Tactic #1 (write your projects here): ==

*Description: The opportunity for graduate and professional students to collaborate is limited. The current opportunities exist outside the scope of the normal experience for these students, either in co-curricular activities or self-initiated discovery. The main purpose of interdisciplinary electives is to teach the steps that everyone has in common, such as patient safety or simulation. These experiences are extremely valuable, although only open to a small set of students and highly structured based on common experiences among students, We have learned through past experiences in problem-based learning that too much direction is equally as detrimental as not enough. It is our opinion that the curricula of graduate and professional schools is overly structured, and there are an overwhelming number of negative incentives in place to collaborating with other disciplines and professions. There is also no dedicated space to open and deliberative sharing of ideas between the professions that draws students together. It is the hypothesis of this project that the creation of a self-directed learning space that is available, accessible, and approachable by students in the health professions and graduate programs will be able to serve as a catalyst for solving complex multidisciplinary problems in the related fields.

*Team Leader: Alex Sherman

*Milestones:

**Environmental scan: Fall 2014

**Small meetings with stakeholders in each school: Fall 2014

**On-boarding and selection of development team: Fall 2014

**Development of a project plan for creation of a joint space: Fall 2014

**Proposal of project plan to stakeholders: Winter 2014

**Implementation of joint space plan into new building development: Spring 2014

**Formation of a joint, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, collaborative space: Fall 2015

*Expected Activities in the Space:

**The space will act as both a self-organized learning environment ([http://www.ted.com/prize/sole_toolkit SOLE]) for graduate and professional students and a place for group work and projects between those students

**Activities may include:

***Facilitated discussions around topic catalysts related to problems in healthcare delivery

***Reverse pitches from subject matter experts about problems in their fields of expertise

*Rationale:

**Bringing people together for the sake of bringing people together, with the simple intent of promoting open curiosity and inquiry, is a powerful tool for tackling complicated problems. This ability is currently unavailable across many professional and graduate school programs.

== Tactic #2: ==

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