Office of Interprofessional Education

Teamwork & Communication Experiential Learning Activities

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Game On Activities are hands-on exercises designed to help interprofessional teams build teamwork, communication, and collaboration skills across healthcare disciplines, with effective teamwork being essential in today's team-based work environments. As you’ve seen from teams you've led or been part of, a new team doesn’t perform exceptionally without proper training, and as the facilitator, you play a key role in helping learners understand and implement team competencies. When planned and executed strategically, these experiential learning activities can unite learners, strengthen skills, and address weaknesses. It's important to define your goals and purposes when selecting and implementing activities, considering how they can be tailored to specific skills, competencies, or learners, with each request including supplies, a facilitator guide, and a learner rule card.

The Office of IPE is your partner in building high-functioning teams. Through the Game On initiative and request form, we can provide tailored training materials, personalized mentoring, and fully facilitated experiential learning activities to strengthen collaboration, enhance communication, and prepare your learners to work effectively on interprofessional teams across diverse settings.

Step 1: Choose a category from the list below that aligns with your learning objectives and the level of your learners.
Step 2: Complete the request form at the end of this page.
Step 3: We will match you with an appropriate activity and contact you to arrange a pick-up or drop-off time.

Topics Covered:

• Team Structure
• Communication
• Situation Monitoring
• Leading Teams
• Mutual Support
• Roles & Responsibilities
• Values & Ethics

The Escape Room Challenge 

The Escape Room Challenge brings together students from various health professions to communicate and collaborate on hidden puzzles based on a patient case scenario, working as a team to solve them in order to “escape.

(EPIC) A Teamwork and Communication Virtual Event

A virtual, team-building event focused on enhancing communication and teamwork during public health emergencies. Learners collaborate on action planning and resource management in response to recent community disasters.

An Interprofessional Mass Disaster Live Simulation

A hands-on simulation event where teams of healthcare students practice triage, teamwork, and decision-making during mass casualty scenarios to improve emergency response and collaboration skills.

An Interprofessional Mass Disaster Live Simulation

A hands-on simulation event where teams of healthcare students practice triage, teamwork, and decision-making during mass casualty scenarios to improve emergency response and collaboration skills.

Best Practices in Interprofessional Collaboration

This small group discussion series helps healthcare learners develop the knowledge and skills needed for effective interprofessional collaboration, focusing on teamwork and cooperation across different disciplines.

An Interprofessional Simulation with Standardized Patients

A virtual simulation designed to reduce stigma around substance use disorders (SUDs). Learners practice destigmatizing language and patient care techniques through collaborative problem-solving and standardized patient scenarios.

Resilience in Interprofessional Teamwork

A virtual event aimed at addressing burnout in healthcare. Through case-based learning, participants explore the role of resilience in teamwork and communication, fostering well-being among healthcare professionals.

An Interprofessional Safety Event

A virtual Interprofessional patient safety simulation with standardized patients focused on preventing medical errors, with an emphasis on team-based care and patient safety. Healthcare professionals learn to identify hazards, discuss root causes of medical errors, and practice disclosure as a team.

Entry to Practice

An interactive, community-engaged event where healthcare students demonstrate their skills and collaborate across disciplines. The event supports children aged 0-3 with early intervention services and connects families to healthcare professionals and resources. *Participation is limited.

Fall Symposium

An annual virtual event where healthcare professionals engage in case-based learning on current and emerging healthcare issues, selected by an interprofessional planning committee.