Interprofessional Education
Collaboration and Team-Based Education
Definitions
Interprofessional Education: “When students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.” – World Health Organization
Interprofessional Collaboration: “When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, carers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care.” – World Health Organization
Interprofessional Teamwork: “The levels of cooperation, coordination and collaboration characterizing the relationships between professions in delivering patient-centered care.” – Interprofessional Education Collaborative
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).” – Interprofessional Education Collaborative
Organizations
- Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative
- Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education
- National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
- National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment
Resources
- Achieving the Optimal Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment: Proceedings from a NCICLE Symposium (PDF)
- HPAC Guidance on Developing Quality Interprofessional Education for the Health Professions (PDF)
- IPEC Core Competencies
- Interprofessional Education Collection
- National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Resource Center
- National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment
- NEXUS Assessment and Evaluation Tools
- TeamSTEPPS Curriculum Material
Journals
- Journal of Interprofessional Care
- Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice
- Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education
- Journal of Allied Health
- Teaching and Learning in Medicine
