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= Strategy #2: Catalyze innovation at Carolina by facilitating the work of faculty, staff, and students as they put important ideas to use for a better world. =

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*<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;">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.</span>