This week, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation will convene health professions educators from 24 institutions across the country to discuss the design and implementation of interprofessional education (IPE). These leaders represent schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and social work, as well as premier health systems that have been busy developing, testing and rolling out IPE interventions at their institutions over the last few years with the support of the Macy Foundation.
We have strong evidence that health care delivered by well-functioning teams leads to better outcomes, yet the norm is still to educate our health professionals in silos. By bringing together these IPE innovators, we hope to gather collective wisdom and identify best practices that can help catalyze more planned and rigorous IPE.
Together with leaders from philanthropy, government, health care and education, these interprofessional educators will share successes, challenges and lessons learned from their programs and come together for focused discussion around key aspects of IPE, such as teaching quality and patient safety interprofessionally, faculty development for IPE, and use of simulation and online learning in IPE.
Donald Berwick, MD, former CMS Administrator and Scott Reeves, PhD, MSc, PGCE from the Center for Innovation in Interprofessional Healthcare Education at the University of California, San Francisco, will kick-off the two-day meeting.
You can see highlights from the conference by following us on Twitter (@macyfoundation) and reading this blog.
Video from the event will be archived on the website, and a summary of the proceedings will be published later this year.
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