Check out Macy President George Thibault’s blog post “Moving Interprofessional Education into the Mainstream of Health Professions Education” on the Health Affairs GrantWatch Blog
Read about the rationale for ramping up interprofessional education and the Foundation’s hopes for the new national center for interprofessional education and collaborative practice
We have been spearheading [IPE] efforts for a simple reason: we will never have the health system we want and need unless we pay a lot more attention to how we’re training people to enter it.
This requirement will be there regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the Affordable Care Act of 2010 later this month. Meaningful reforms affecting how care is delivered, practiced, and paid for are already under way. Contemporary practice models that require greater collaboration, such as accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes, are being established. The U.S. medical education system will need to move quickly to create experiences and opportunities in interprofessional education, and to advance replicable models of education and practice that foster collaboration, communication, and team approaches to care delivery.