To earn the Concentration in Interprofessional Education, students complete four qualifying interprofessional experiences.
Experiences must meet one of the operational definitions from IPEC’s (2016) Core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice to qualify:
- Interprofessional education: “When students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.” (WHO 2010)
- Interprofessional collaborative practice: “When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, [careers], and communities to deliver the highest quality of care.” (WHO 2010)
- Interprofessional teamwork: The levels of cooperation, coordination and collaboration characterizing the relationships between professions in delivering patient-centered care.
- Interprofessional team-based care: Care delivered by intentionally created, usually relatively small work groups in health care who are recognized by others as well as by themselves as having a collective identity and shared responsibility for a patient or group of patients (e.g., rapid response team, palliative care team, primary care team, and operating room team). (IPEC, 2016, p. 8)