Interprofessional Education: Collaboration and Learning in Action.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2019

Abstract

Interprofessional education (IPE) is necessary to ensure that future health care professionals are prepared to provide holistic, patient-centered prevention programs, assessments, diagnoses, treatment plans, and chronic illness management in a collaborative manner. Accrediting bodies such as the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation and the American Psychological Association newly require programs to implement instruction and evaluate IPE core competency development in each year of their programs. The IPE core team at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine has designed, implemented, and tested an IPE core course over the past 2 years that includes students in osteopathic medicine, clinical psychology, mental health counseling, and physician assistant programs. Throughout this process, the IPE core team has identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges. Cultural considerations, institutional resources, pedagogy for large interdisciplinary groups at different stages of training, and technology and assessment tools for student and course evaluation are all critical considerations.

Publication Title

The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association

Volume

119

Issue

9

First Page

612

Last Page

619

PubMed ID

31449307

Comments

This article was published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Volume 119, Issue 9, pages 612-619.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2019.109.

Copyright © 2019 American Osteopathic Association.

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