Annual Report: Achievements of 2011 Reveal Signs of Progress

The past year was a transformative one for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation in which many of the ideas and plans we launched three years ago have begun to come to fruition. We are happy therefore to release our 2011...

IPE and Simulation in Healthcare

In January, 2012, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and the National League for Nursing, with support from the Macy Foundation, convened two simultaneous meetings on Interprofessional Education and...

Macy Foundation Awards $750,000 to Institute of Medicine for Study of Graduate Medical Education

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation has awarded the Institute of Medicine (IOM) $750,000 to study the governance and financing of graduate medical education (GME). An independent review of the goals, governance and...

Patient-Centeredness at the Core of IPE

Dr. David Irby of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), moderated the final panel of the Macy conference on interprofessional education (IPE) yesterday. The session featured four senior faculty whose...

IPE And The Triple Aim

“What are we trying to get done?” That was the question Don Berwick, former CMS Administrator, posed to participants gathered yesterday at the Macy Conference on Interprofessional Education (IPE).

Conference on Interprofessional Education: April 1-3, 2012

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...

IPE At A Tipping Point

Scott Reeves, Director of the Center for Innovation in Interprofessional Healthcare Education at the University of California, San Francisco, believes IPE is at a tipping point. In this morning’s plenary session,...