Teaching & Learning Center: interprofessional health education

The Teaching and Learning Center, opening in January 2011, is a realization of the UCSF strategic goals to develop educational facilities and infrastructures to keep UCSF at the forefront of health sciences education and meet the growing demand for health care professionals. The Teaching and Learning Center will provide a technology-rich environment in support of interprofessional and transdisciplinary learning programs at UCSF. The programs will focus on training future health professionals and scientists to become leaders in delivering high quality care to underserved communities.

The second floor of the Parnassus Campus Library will be transformed to house this new facility, enhancing Library education space with a simulation and clinical skills education center; new teaching and learning space, including technology-enhanced active-learning classrooms and computing labs; and communications technology to facilitate interaction with health care providers, students, and support teams at other sites.

The project is state funded by the Telemedicine and PRIME-US Education Facilities initiative, which is part of California State Proposition 1D. All four professional schools and the Library have collaborated on the plans for the new center, which will support the curricula for Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and other clinical programs.