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This report is organized in the following fashion: first, we provide key definitions and principles that guided us in identifying core interprofessional competencies. Then, we describe the timeliness of interprofessional learning now, along with separate efforts by the six professional education organizations to move in this direction. We identify eight reasons why it is important to agree on a core set of competencies across the professions. A concept- interprofessionality- is introduced as the idea that is foundational to the identification of core interprofessional competency domains and the associated specific competencies. Interprofessional education has a dynamic relationship to practice needs and practice improvements. In the concluding background section, we describe three recently developed frameworks that identify interprofessional education as fundamental to practice improvement.
Then, the competency approach to learning is discussed, followed by what distinguishes interprofessional competencies. We link our efforts to the five Institute of Medicine (IOM) core competencies for all health professionals (IOM, 2003). The introduction and discussion of the four competency domains and the specific competencies within each form the core of the report. We describe how these competencies can be formulated into learning objectives and learning activities at the pre-licensure/pre-certifying level, and name several factors influencing choice of learning activities. Educators are now beginning to develop more systematic curricular approaches for developing interprofessional competencies. We provide several examples. We conclude the report with discussion of key challenges to interprofessional competency development and acknowledge several limitations to the scope of the report. An appendix describes the goals of the IPEC group that prompted the development of this report, the panel’s charge, process and participants.
©2011 American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, American Dental Education Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, and Association of Schools of Public Health.
Linda Mast (Faculty)
This is an excellent and very current document that represents the hard work and collaboration across many disciplines of experts who identified core competencies for interprofessional collaboration. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science uses this document as a framework for evaluating our first year experience for new graduate students in medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, nurse anesthesia, physician assistant, etc. who participate in an interprofessional core curriculum. I have personally used this document as a foundation for parts of a recent research grant proposal.
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