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What is IPE?

Interprofessional Education (IPE) is

learning with, from and about other

professions

The concept was first introduced in

1988 but the World Health

Organization (WHO)

IPE is intended to improve

communication and understanding

among different professions,

primarily in health care to improve

patient care

Interdisciplinary and multi-

disciplinary are academic terms for a

model where two discipline areas

work together to approach a topic or

problems through education and

research. This learning tends to be

done in silos.

Interprofessional Education involves

more collaboration between

discipline areas in order to have a

broader perspective of discipline

areas instead of just solving a single

topic or problem.

ULEAD Team 3

Matthew Belskie, Educational Technology

Coordinator, Office of Arts & Sciences

Information Services UNC-CH

Jessica Fleming, HR Consultant, Kenan-

Flagler Business School, UNC-CH

Larisa Rodgers, Health Informatics

Coordinator at Carolina Health Informatics

Program, UNC-CH

Naadii Salaam, HR Consultant, School of Law,

UNC-CH

IPE: FROM SILOS TO FABRIC

What are we doing now system wide?

Winston-Salem State University: Virtual Hospital

Appalachian State University:: Blue Cross & Blue

Shield of NC Institute for Health and Human

Services

Fayetteville State University: Collaborative

Institute for Interprofessional Education and

Practice

UNC Greensboro, High Point University, and NC

A&T University: working group for IPE for health

affairs students at all 3 universities

UNC Wilmington: Simulation Learning Center at

UNCW School of Nursing

UNC Pembroke: teamed up with Campbell

University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine to

host a day of learning event

East Carolina University: TeamSTEPPS, an

interprofessional intervention training program

UNC Chapel Hill: Geriatric Interprofessional

Education Event, SHAC, for-credit courses

What are the challenges at UNC-Chapel Hill? Funding

Lack of shared spaces or buildings

Scheduling issues with different

programs being on different

academic calendars

Financial and credit structures

such as which department

receives the tuition dollars and

awards credit

Buy in from faculty in order to

buy-out instruction time

Navigating the political landscape

Who owns the program? “If you

want to see IPE killed, house it in a

single department”

What is happening now? IPE Steering Committee was formed in

2016. Each health affairs schools agreed to

fund a 10% faculty position from each

school to focus on building and organizing

a more robust IPE program. The group

meets biweekly. IPE is being required more

for accreditation so IPE will become more

important in the future.

“None of us is a single thread, we are

this whole amazing fabric” –

Katherine Barron, School of Social

Work, UNC-CH, MSW ‘17

How to build IPE? Look for ways to implement free or low cost

collaboration and networking events, such as

lunch and learns or brown bag lunches

Invest some resources into holding an event

or conference for attendees from various

degree programs or professional schools.

Content of the event should focus on learning

about the different professions and

developing collaborative problem solving.

Also could look to incorporate a 1 credit hour

seminar course into curriculum.

Fully imbed IPE into a curriculum. This

would require significant resources. Most of

the resources would go towards hiring a

Program Manager that can coordinate with

the various programs involved in the

curriculum. Additional cost would be needed

for faculty buy-out of course load for their

current department. With the expenses for

the Program Manager, the faculty buy-out

and additional program expenses,

departments should expect to spend at a

minimum $125,000/year for the IPE

program

Potential revenue source for IPE funding:

donations through a Capital Campaign or

other fundraising efforts. Work with

development officers to tell the IPE story of

students who have been positively impacted

by IPE learning opportunities.