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Institutional Collaboration To Accelerate Interprofessional Education, Susan Mace Weeks, David Farmer
Institutional Collaboration To Accelerate Interprofessional Education, Susan Mace Weeks, David Farmer
International Journal of Health Sciences Education
Evidence has been generated and synthesized to support enhanced outcomes in healthcare environments supportive of interprofessional practice. Despite the preponderance of evidence, many health professions education programs do not prepare their students for interprofessional practice. Multiple factors influence the integration of interprofessional education into a program’s curricular offerings including availability of potential partnering professions, conflicting schedules, lack of curricular alignment, and logistical challenges. This manuscript describes initiatives and innovations used to replace health profession and institutional silos with interprofessional and cross-institutional collaboration in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. While the initial point of connection involved the administrators and faculty members from …