Education for multiple health profession in one facility: What’s working for interdisciplinary success?

The efficiency and productivity of cross-disciplinary learning is encouraging higher education institutions to mix multiple healthcare disciplines in single buildings, yet challenges are abundant in these efforts. Session leaders demonstrate new design strategies used to foster collaboration and interdisciplinary success, post-occupancy evaluation processes to collect building performance data, and the reported outcomes. They share their findings from two recent projects and illustrate the future implications for interdisciplinary building design. They explore processes for preparing surveys and deploying them with rigor, and identify key criteria for a successful and objective assessment.