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Resources

Access resources and tools that accelerate IPE’s community of knowledge and share information about collaborative learning and practice.

Resources


 

Resources to Advance Interprofessional Collaboration and Learning

Tools
  • Interprofessional Structured Shadowing Toolkit - developed by University of Alberta and UT Austin. Access here.
  • Institutional Quality IPE Assessment Instrument. Access here.
  • Assessment tool collection from the National Center for IPE. Access here.
  • TeamSTEPPS
Regional and National Resources
International Resources
IPE-Focused Journals
Selected Journals with IPE Publications

IPEC Competencies


The Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice refer to the essential skills, knowledge, and behaviors that professionals from different professions must possess to work effectively in a collaborative, team-based environment. These competencies guide the learning experiences and trainings that the HIPE Center leads. They are sponsored by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) and developed by an expert panel representing different professional education organizations. These competencies and their sub-competencies were most recently updated in 2023 (IPEC, 2023). 

  1. Values / Ethics: Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.
  2. Roles and Responsibilities: Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual and population health outcomes.
  3. Communication: Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
  4. Teams and Teamwork: Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings. 

Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative  


The HIPE Center works with health professions programs to align with the consensus recommendations and guidance from the Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC), which represents 24 accreditors for health professions. HPAC provides IPE guidance for institutional leaders, program-specific leaders and faculty, and accreditation boards on how to develop quality IPE for the health professions. Read more about HPAC recommendations here

IPE Definitions  


Interprofessional Education
When two or more professions learn with, about, and from each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. 
 
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice 
When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, carers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care. 
 
Interprofessional Teamwork
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). 
 
References on file.