Interprofessional Education: The CA-IPERA Model for Learning

Abstract

According to multiple national and international policies, interprofessional education and practice is a necessary component to break the silos in health care services, as well as improve patient safety and health outcomes. As a result, interprofessional education is quickly becoming the accreditation standard for multiple healthcare disciplines including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy and speechlanguage pathology. In addition to developing curriculum that is highly engaging while also preparing students to address the challenges of providing safe and effective care to increasingly ill patients, health care educators must also design, refine, and embed interprofessional education activities into an often impacted program. This article will provide a brief background of interprofessional education, current accreditation expectations across healthcare disciplines and discuss the development of the California-Interprofessional Education Research Academy Model

Interprofessional Education: Building Student Resilience and Grit through Teamwork

“…These learned skills have been recognized as key 21st century attributes for success nationally and internationally by educators and employers and are now a central focus of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Report [3]. While the IPEC Report is supported by nearly all of the health profession educator associations and accreditors in the United States of America [6], the majority of educational programs continue to provide healthcare training and education in silos, with only intermittent practice of interprofessional team-based skills [3]). The challenge to health care educators is to create learning experiences that develop grit and the skills that better prepare students for the reality of working together in interprofessional teams to address longterm, complex patient problems and improve patient outcomes [7].…”