Synergy: Development of an Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Clinical Learners and Design Students

The complexity of problems in Health design demands trans-disciplinary efforts to be addressed and resolved. However, very few curricula in medical education involve collaboration with non-medical disciplines. The gaps between disciplines emerge as barriers to find innovative resolution in healthcare. The faculty members from the Department of Design and Department of Internal Medicine have been seeking ways to break discipline-centered silos and innovate educational modules for future clinicians and designers. The presentation will overview pedagogical strategies for co-education between medicine and design, institutional barriers that learners should aware of for co-education, and outcomes of the three collaboration projects.