Preparing a Workforce for Interprofessional Collaborative

Care to Improve Health Outcomes

Carol Aschebrener (AAMC), Polly Bednash (AACN), Lucinda Maine (AACP), Steve Shannon (AACOM), Harrison Spencer (ASPPH), and Rick Valachovic (ADEA)

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Source: Wu, Shin-Yi and Green, Anthony. Projection of Chronic Illness Prevalence and Cost Inflation. RAND Corporation, October 2000.

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Courtesy of Dean Julio Frenk (Harvard SPH)

The goal of IPEC is to prepare all health professions students 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

Why IPEC®

IPEC Action Plan: Our GoalsHelp our member institutions advance the field by:

Every medical, nursing, dental, pharmacy, and public health graduate is proficient in the core competencies for interprofessional, team-based care, including preventive, acute, chronic and catastrophic care.

Four competency domains with 38 sub-competencies:

Values and ethics

Roles and responsibilities

Interprofessional communications

Teams and teamwork

Moving Forward• Established a formal partnership

• Articles of incorporation and bylaws

• Elected officers and established financial plan

• Received approval from FTC to trademark IPEC ®

• In the process of hiring staff

• Website: https://IPECollaborative.org

Meeting our Goals: Facilitating Faculty DevelopmentFaculty Development Institutes:

•May 2012: “IPE 101” in Herndon, VA

•October 2012: “IPE 101” in Atlanta, GA

•May 2013: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QI & PS) theme in Herndon, VA

•October 2013: “IPE 101” in Chicago, IL

•January 2014: QI & PS theme in Herndon, VA

•May 2014: in planning

An Integrated Solution

The MedEdPORTAL Suite

Collaboration Across the Health Disciplines

• IOM Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education

• National Coordinating Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

• Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP)

Reconnecting Public Health and Care Delivery Thought Leaders Conference

in 2014

Contributing to Improving Health Outcomes