Background: Teams are critical in delivering patient-centered care amid the challenge of health care workforce shortages. While conventional team-based collaborative care model involves physician and non-physician professionals, roles for pre-professional students in teams are largely educational and arguably underutilized. Methods: In a collaborative effort with the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for East West Medicine (CEWM), TeamX Health, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, designed an innovative, team-based curriculum for pre-professional students with our aims to harness the potentials of students in shaping the present and future delivery of oncological care. Over a 10-week academic quarter, students are challenged to explore the evolving evidence-based specialty of integrative oncology, and delivered as a “capstone project”, a creative solution to problems facing cancer patients today. Results: From April 2018 through October 2018, two 6-student cohorts have completed the curriculum. 10 participants (83%) were undergraduates and 2 (17%) were post-graduate alumni. Participants were selected based on a competitive application process with commitment to engage in the 2-hour weekly learning session. Sessions were taught in team-based learning format, covering topics ranging from cancer prevention, survivorship, symptoms management, nutrition, complementary therapies, integrative medicine models, and informatics. At completion of the curriculum, cohort one launched a health promotion YouTube channel addressing the physical and emotional burden for cancer survivors, and cohort two published a website for patients and caregivers to share their cancer journey serving as a greater social support platform. Conclusions: Redesigning the educational experience for pre-professional students may unlock unexpected possibilities to shape how we learned from and care for our patients. Harnessing the potentials for all levels of stakeholders ought to be part of defining team-based collaborative care.