​INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Why Interprofessional Education?

There is a growing emphasis on interprofessional education in healthcare as knowledge sharing, coordination of efforts and increased interaction are deemed critical to improved patient outcomes. CED emphasizes, whenever possible, a collaborative 'by the team, for the team' approach to activity design, and is proud to be among the early providers granted Joint Accreditation status as a result of our past, present and future activities.

Joint Accreditation offers the opportunity to simultaneously offer accredited activities that meet the educational needs of pharmacists, nurses and physicians, and in a format that facilitates collaborative learning.

What is Interprofessional Education?

Interprofessional collaborative practice is a critical key to safe, high-quality, accessible, patient-centered care. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) asserts that how care is delivered is as important as what care is delivered. IOM stresses that developing effective teams and redesigned systems is critical to achieving care that is patient centered, safer, timelier, and more effective, efficient, and equitable. 
 
Equipping healthcare professionals with new skills and new ways of relating to patients and each other demands retraining of the current health professions workforce utilizing inter-professional learning approaches.  The  
focus of inter-professional education is to build inter-professional teamwork and team-based care to improve quality of care outcomes and safety.
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​Growing evidence supports the importance of better teamwork and team-based care delivery and the competencies needed to provide that kind of care.  The development of inter-professional collaborative competencies requires moving beyond profession-specific educational efforts to engage the different professions in interactive learning with each other. Being able to work effectively as members of clinical teams is a fundamental learning need.

IPE Core Competencies

"Currently, the transformation of health professions education is attracting widespread interest. The transformation envisioned would enable opportunities for health professions students to engage in interactive learning with those outside their profession as a routine part of their education. The goal of this interprofessional learning is to prepare all health professions for deliberatively working together with the common goal of building a safer and better patient-centered and community/population oriented U.S. health care system."
                 - IPE Collaborative Expert Panel

Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel (2011). Core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice: Report of an expert panel. Washington, D.C.: Interprofessional Education Collaborative.

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