The emphasis on integrated education and practice has reached a peaked fervor in the United States. Although there has been a consensus since 1972 at the first Institute of Medicine meeting, "Interrelationships of Educational Programs for Health Professionals" (IOM, 1972), when over 120 leaders from allied health, dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy met together to consider a national discussion on inter-professional education, it has only been in the last five years that we have seen the greatest advancement in inter-professional care and education. The transformation was slow, in part, for the same reasons as the international community found when complicated organizations with complex funding streams, and "silo" education, tried to work together to facilitate patient care. The motivating forces for transformation to integrated care, however, are powerful and include cost of errors, poor utilization of resources, workforce development and a focus on the shift to population and system based care and education. This presentation will review a process of developing integrated care and education as part of the start of a new medical school in South Texas. With a confluence of factors that contributed to the establishment of a new medical school and training programs, senior leadership focused on the development of an integrated care clinic and integrated collaborative for research, education and practice. The goal of this project is to develop a robust, talented, and experienced team of educators, clinicians, and researchers to plan and implement an education system in an under-served and border region in South Texas. The aim of the inter-professional collaboration is to design a new medical school curriculum, produce integrated clinics and learning sites, and provide a template for inter-professional education and
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